Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I would love to bring the gentleman from Texas into the discussion, because women actually are specifically affected by the shortfalls in Medicaid because the reimbursement rates for women's health care is frequently so low that it's actually hard to find an obstetrician to take care of those patients. I know in Maryland this is a problem we had. In the First Congressional District on the eastern shore of Maryland for a while, before we did Medicaid payment reform, women who were pregnant in that part of the State had to drive 3 hours to find an obstetrician to take care of them because the reimbursements were so low. And we know the Affordable Care Act does nothing for medical liability. We also know, for instance, that we have a cesarean section rate that is 35 percent now, the result of medical liability. We have obstetricians who have left the practice later in their careers of obstetrics and gravitate toward just doing gynecology where they join frequently large group practices. So we've left the practice of obstetrics to be an impersonal practice with people who generally don't have as much experience as those who have left the practice. And because of the lack of liability reform, we have a cesarean section rate that has roughly doubled over my career in dealing with obstetrics and obstetric anesthesiology.…”