Tom Price: “As a physician, nothing is more important to me than patients and the ability of doctors to take care of them. One of…”

“As a physician, nothing is more important to me than patients and the ability of doctors to take care of them. One of the reasons that I ran for public office was to work as diligently as I could to get politics out of the clinical exam room and out of the operating room. The process that has brought this bill to the floor, a new bill of over 270 pages, just this morning, reveals the cynical and solely political activity of the majority leadership, a crisis of leadership in this House. No hearing, no amendments, no fairness, no recognition of the true needs of patients and doctors. Politics over policy, politics over people. Shame, Mr. Speaker. Shame.”