On the recordMay 25, 2010
Yes. So you have costs going up and you have jobs going down. We know that there's supposed to be 32 million more Americans covered under this than otherwise. Half of those are to be estimated to be going into Medicaid. And doctors across the country are dropping Medicaid. Where are these people going to end up? They are going to end up in emergency rooms, not in the doctors's offices like was anticipated. But let me get to something that I think is real important because you remember that we brought up the idea that there would be committees that may make a decision about what kind of treatment you may or may not get? Now, we know that they exist in Canada and in the United Kingdom, but we started talking about these. I know that Sarah Palin, Governor Palin, made mention of this and the left blew apart. They said, my goodness, you are talking about death boards. Shame on you for scaring the American people. Okay, well, let me tell you what's really happening, and this is being reported now. The President has nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that's CMS, and his job is to oversee CMS. He is also supposed to oversee the $2.5 billion comparative effectiveness research.
