Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"Your practices came out of our quality initiatives and our national health effort through the Patient Protection and Affordable Patient Care Act."

"This might be the last billion you get, unless we really show results. That is not a threat, it is an analysis."

"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."