Lee Terry: “Under this legislation, physician-owned hospitals would be banned in the future. This includes the Bellevue Medical…”

“Under this legislation, physician-owned hospitals would be banned in the future. This includes the Bellevue Medical Center currently under construction in my congressional district. This first photo is a view of the finished--this is 48 hours old, this photo here, showing a nice steel structure and a half-completed building. If this bill would pass today, construction on this facility has to stop because it's 40 percent owned by physicians. The other partner in here is a hospital. We have two facilities like this in my district. Now, not only is it appalling that we are going to have to shut down construction on it or else not accept Medicare patients, but the fact is the community that this is being built in is a town, it's incorporated within the Omaha area, about 50, 60,000 people and also has a base, an Air Force base on it. There are no other medical facilities in this general area. This will be it, and we will be shutting this down.”