Political Quotes

“Thank you, Dr. Burgess. I really appreciate what my good friend from Texas is doing in terms of his leadership with the Congressional Health Care Caucus. It's refreshing in this Chamber to deal with folks who have the facts and have the experience to make informed decisions when it comes to such important topics like health care. I think of all the issues that come before this Chamber, there are probably few things as intimate to our individual lives as health care. And to observe this process over this past 14 months, where bills are written as I look at these bills, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 pages, which has been special agendas for, you know, just misled government-run health care, it's apparent to me that those who are writing those bills have very little experience, if any experience in health care. And so it's been a real privilege to be able to work with you and under your leadership to really look at the solutions that we need to have. Now, as I travel around, and I did, my background was 28 years nonprofit community health care where I, in the hospitals, the health systems I come out of, we work very hard to be partners with our physicians. And so what am I hearing? As I travel in my congressional district and I listen to folks throughout the country, I haven't met anyone that says, just don't do anything. The commitment is that, as I talk with folks, that they feel that they like the health system we have. Can we improve it?...”