Political Quotes

“Thank you, Congressman Akin. It's good to be with you. I've had a number of visitors over the last several days that have been talking about the health care bill. It's amazing, people are now starting to sit down and look at the bill, trying to figure out what kind of implications it has for themselves, their business, their families, whatever it may be. And to follow up on the gentleman from Pennsylvania's comment, yesterday I had a group of rural hospital folks in, and not only is it going to affect the hospitals, it's also going to affect the doctors from the standpoint that the payment schedule can't be made whole so that they can make enough money to keep their doors open. Private practices will be a thing of the past. You're looking at them all becoming employees of hospitals or the government, whichever one is the surviving--I guess the last one standing here. So it's really a challenging time for not only the medical professionals, but also for the businesses as well.”