Phil Gingrey: “I can just anecdotally tell of a situation in my own family, Madam Speaker. My grandchildren, my twin granddaughters…”

“I can just anecdotally tell of a situation in my own family, Madam Speaker. My grandchildren, my twin granddaughters, who are precious, of course, as all grandparents talk about their grandchildren, but mine are now 5 rac{1}{2} years old, but they were born at 26 rac{1}{2} weeks. Now, very fortunately, we were in a community where we had excellent care. We had access to OB/GYN care; in fact, my own group. And we had a wonderful hospital and a wonderful intensive Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murphy) is talking about. But had that occurred in a rural community, had that occurred in a community like West Virginia or Pennsylvania, where we are in a crisis mode, and physicians because of the inability to pay for these outlandish, outrageous malpractice fees caused by this crisis, then our little grandchildren would have not had that care and, without question, they would have become a statistic, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania is talking about.”