I am a large defender of our great teaching hospitals in New York.
I do not agree with MedPAC on that issue, as you know.
We are talking a lot about ways to use benefit design, et cetera, to make markets more competitive.
It is only fair to provide them with the information necessary to do that. That is how markets can work.
I was for a public option. I was more sympathetic than I usually would be to a single-payer type system...
I have always thought free market models do not really work in health care very well.
But the bottom line is, we need these unique institutions, because they treat patients that other places have tried and failed to treat, or ...
I tend to have sympathy for the idea that, because people are not paying themselves... the market system does not work in health care.
We will not permit Iran to have a nuclear weapon, period.
Thank you, and I want to thank the three witnesses here today for their hard work here.
I want to begin by applauding the Administration's recent announcement of new sanctions on any financial institutions that conduct significa...