Bill Pascrell actually said...

"Is it fair to say that health workforce shortages have the ability not only to restrict access and actually to affect quality, but also to increase costs?"

"I believe that the reform that we started to talk about last week will be meaningless without a health workforce that is both adequate in size and competency, competency, to respond to an increased de..."

"I think this is very fundamental to the issue of cost that we are struggling with."

"I believe there is room for efficiencies and quality improvement, that is what we are all here about, I guess."