Access is being diminished to care.

We ought to be talking about patients.

One in three physicians in this country who are eligible to see Medicare patients have decreased or limited the number of Medicare patients that they see.

I would suggest that the SGR formula is not a reimbursement formula. It is a payment system.

The quality of care for cancer patients in this country is being harmed because of a decrease in access to care.

Heaven forbid that the patient should be cared for in the physician's office, I understand that.

This bill is harmful to the economy, harmful to job creation.

The guys and the gals my age out there practicing medicine are looking for the exit door.

That is not going to lead to a thriving middle class.

My simple point is instead of using profits or the cost of a service to generate how often it is done, that we think about taking advantage of the points that were made by a number of you moving from volume to value, and value must include…

At the end of the day, it is patients and families and doctors that ought to be making these decisions about what kind of care they receive, and not anybody else.