Louise Slaughter: “Mr. Speaker, the previous gentleman would not yield to my colleague, but it is the FDA's own assistant commissioner, Mr.…”

“Mr. Speaker, the previous gentleman would not yield to my colleague, but it is the FDA's own assistant commissioner, Mr. Hubbard, who said they have seen no unsafe drugs from Canada but have found adulterated drugs in our relatively unregulated secondary wholesale market. So the gentleman is wrong on that. He said he has seen them. He ought to contact the FDA. Mr. Speaker, there is some room for agreement here. There is a problem in the affordability of insurance, health insurance for many Americans and businesses, medical malpractice insurance for many doctors. But guess what? It has spilled over into car insurance, homeowners insurance, personal liability insurance. It seems to be a big crisis in the health insurance industry. And is it that there is this whole new tide of claims in these areas? No, it is because the industry mismanaged its funds. It is an industry that is exempt from antitrust laws of the United States of America. They can and do collude to fix prices, redline people, and choose who they want to cover and who they do not. So they are sticking it to the docs and the American people and American businesses who buy health insurance in all lines of insurance.”