Political Quotes

“I wish to reiterate the fact that this should be part of health care reform. It is not. It is shocking that we would have something of this magnitude that is not fixed in a reform bill. We have an opportunity in a bill that has now come before us, which is to fix the things they missed in the health care bill, to provide a 3-year comfort on the part of physicians around the country that their reimbursements are not going to be cut. They are targeted for 21 percent. It expires March 31. There is not a more appropriate time than right now. What a lot of us have said is: Let's pay for it. Let's simply pay for it. Enough is enough on spending money we do not have. Here is an excellent opportunity, where we have savings from the health care reform bill that we can now pump back in to pay for the fix to the sustainable growth rate about which the doctors have been under the gun. We have extended it every 30 days for some time without paying for it. Here is a real opportunity in a bill that is designed specifically to fix things that were missed in the health care bill.”