Political Quotes

“Well, you have touched on so many very important issues during that time, during the course of this hour. I certainly want to come back to--you know, when I started in health care, I mean, the patients were not a part of the treatment team, they were, you know, everyone kind of focused their energies on the patient, the individual, the consumer, but they weren't included in health care decisions. So much has changed in at least three decades. Today, I don't know of any health care professionals that don't consider the patient themselves a very important part of the treatment team, and it's so important that individuals take that, exercise that self-responsibility to be informed and to make decisions and to take control of their health care, extremely important. You also talked about, you were talking about the stress on physicians, and it's significant. In Pennsylvania, the average age of physicians in Pennsylvania is 50. Many that I talk with, they look at the challenges of practicing medicine today. In Pennsylvania, we have terrible medical malpractice costs. We export our physicians. We train a lot of them, but we export them to States like Texas. You know, we don't keep them.…”