Barbara Mikulski actually said...

They often get a stigma, 'oh that is the charity hospital, that is where the poor go.'

One of the big things we want to improve is health outcomes for patients. That is our large, bipartisan, public policy goal.

Essentially the intervention is relatively low tech, as Senator Mikulski noted.

People were so intent on the delivery of high tech and high touch medicine that they weren't looking at the negative consequences to that.