Nancy L. Johnson: “I think the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) is absolutely right. This is about whether doctors will regain control…”

“I think the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) is absolutely right. This is about whether doctors will regain control of America's health care system. At the hearing before our subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, every single example that the trial lawyers gave could have been solved more rapidly under the system in our bill and for $50. I ask, what is in the patients' interest? What is in the patients' interest is that they get the care they need and they get the care they need when they need it, that they do not go to court and face the long dragged out process of the court and face the high cost of a court case. It was really sad to sit there and hear every single example the trial lawyers' representatives gave and to see how this could have been resolved so much more rapidly, with so much less suffering and harm on the part of the patient and their whole family and of the caring physician under our system. My colleague is absolutely right. This is a big vote about whether patients and doctors are going to be at the heart of America's health care system in the future.”