Johnny Isakson actually said...

"Home health care, particularly for the elderly, but in long-term recovery, is a better environment and a less expensive environment for a patient to be healed in than a hospital is."

"Quite frankly, Congress is guilty of the same type thing. We have far too many duplicative appropriations in different departments."

"I think there are some people--some people; I am not speaking about you--who are driving people away from home health care and into hospitalization, which is less good for the patient's mental health ..."

"I commend the movement away from that and the movement towards reimbursement based on quality."