Political Quotes

“A moment ago, I asked, Madam Speaker, if we could focus on the issue before us, which is certainly a meritorious issue. But apparently our colleagues from the Republican Party want to debate health care so, okay, guys, let's debate health care. A moment ago, the speaker from wherever you were from spoke about somehow limiting the MRIs. You are absolutely right. The legislation does limit MRIs that are ordered by a doctor that owns the MRI machine. There is blatant fraud going on, and there's blatant overuse and payments by the taxpayers to the Medicare and Medicaid program as a result of physician-owned practices, pharmaceuticals, pharmacies, as well as the MRIs and hospitals, and this legislation does limit it. You're quite right. We must limit that kind of overuse. I've been at this a long time. I was the chairman of the health committee in California in the 1980s when we limited it. I was the insurance commissioner. I've seen these pernicious practices over and over. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind Members to address their remarks to the Chair and not to others in the second person.”