So I guess from what you are saying, a quick summary, 31 years in medicine, you thought maybe you knew something about medicine, decided to take the huge amount of effort to come to Congress so you would have something to say about the…

That's an incredible question, isn't it, the control of the information, the spin on the whole thing, the promises initially of it being a transparent process, it's going to be on C-SPAN, everybody can watch it, and in fact everything is…

There was no chance for input or anything else. My good friend, Congressman Luetkemeyer, you recently have been elected to Congress. You come from an out-State part of Missouri with a lot of pretty conservative, but Democrats, in your…

The Democrat Governor of Tennessee, before this bill was passed, called this the mother of all unfunded mandates. In other words, one thing State legislators hate is when we up here pass some piece of legislation which busts their budgets…

I would like to underline that point. We just had my good friend from Tennessee talking about what happened when Tennessee did this crazy harebrained idea and how it really messed up the economy in the State of Tennessee. And now you're…

How many of those doctors voted for this bill? Of those 10 doctors you just mentioned, how many voted for this bill?

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. No one will take it away no matter what.

Now there's something here that just seems to be ironic to an extreme. We passed this massive government takeover of health care, and the very people that the President and his administration chose to take a look at and study the effect on…

So they're saying that this new bill, among other things, is going to close hospitals.

Let me just cut to the chase for a minute here. Are you suggesting that with this new proposal, because of the tremendous pressure that's going to be placed on those hospitals, that they're basically going to be starting to close?

You can take your employees and unload them on the Federal Government, and if you do that, how much money does it save?

So if you are a big company, you can make $40 million by just dumping your employees onto this plan?