David Weldon: “I am a practicing physician. And I do not plan on staying in this body. I plan on returning in a few short years to my…”

“I am a practicing physician. And I do not plan on staying in this body. I plan on returning in a few short years to my practice. And I think it is a wonderful thing that we are having this debate today. We both want to do what we can to restore the doctor-patient relationship. We both want to do what we can to return quality as number one in health care in the United States. They have their plan. We have ours. Now, I believe that there is an important feature in our bill that makes our bill the better bill over their bill. But I want to address a few points made by my colleague the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske). I served on the task force that produced this bill, and one of the most important things that I was going after was timely access to specialists. And contrary to the claims that were made by him and the claims by others, we have important language in our bill that will require people in managed care entities to have timely access to specialists.”