Susan Collins actually said...

"if we keep cutting providers' reimbursements under the same system and do not reform the delivery of health care, we eventually are going to affect access and that concerns me greatly."

"is it over time just does have an erosive and corrosive effect on not only the payment rates, obviously, but in terms of access--potentially, access to care."

"Sequester Would Hit Hard Already Fiscally Strapped Local Education Agencies"

"These indiscriminate cuts represent an utter failure to set priorities, and we simply cannot allow sequestration to go into effect."