Political Quotes

“Absolutely. I thank you for the wisdom of your experience, Dr. DesJarlais. I'd like to turn to Dr. Gingrey here. He's joined us and, of course, has conducted a number--I can't even count the number that I've participated in with Dr. Gingrey with respect to Special Orders that we've had. And before doing that, just to follow up on what Dr. DesJarlais said about the 100,000 in, 300,000 back, I can recall one day in my own practice sitting there and thinking about the three patients that I just saw. In Room 1, I saw a little lady who's on Medicare who could barely scrape by by the end of the month, and she's on Medicare and getting the benefits of Medicare, and God bless her, she was getting them. And then I thought about the second room where there was a gentleman who's a multimillionaire. But you know what? My charge to both of them and what Medicare did for both of them was precisely the same. I just couldn't quite understand that, especially when I thought about the little mother in Room 3 who's on private insurance, two- paycheck family, baby, barely scraping by, paying far more in their premiums than someone in Medicare and having to raise children. It was her insurance premiums that were subsidizing both the little old lady who was poor and the multimillionaire. We're going to have to do something about that to make the economics of this system work. It is unsustainable, as we know. Dr.…”