Political Quotes

“when the doctor cartel bill comes up this afternoon, I will give my colleagues 10 reasons to vote for it. First, they like what OPEC has done to oil prices. Second, they think that too many low-income children have health insurance. They think Americans pay too little for health insurance. They would like to increase the number of uninsured Americans to a nice round number, say, like 50 million. They would like to reduce prescription drug coverage among seniors. They would like to increase out-of-pocket health care cost. They think that the best way to spend the surplus is on doctors' fees. They think that people's wages and fringe benefits are just too high and they would like to reduce them. They think doctors should change patients' medications for political reasons and not for medication. Finally, they think that the most pressing problem in our health care system today is that doctors make too little money. I ask my colleagues to watch how they vote on this.”