Political Quotes

“The doctors in my district in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and all in the Philadelphia area, face a financial crisis, the same as many doctors around the country, as we have heard here today. This bill will not solve their crisis. This bill does not reflect a comprehensive effort to solve the medical malpractice crisis that we face in southeastern Pennsylvania and across many parts of this country. Nobody wants a compromise. Nobody wants to come together in a reasonable way to find a middle ground. That has happened at various State levels, but it is not happening here in Washington. It is not happening because the Washington representatives of the doctors do not want to compromise; the Washington representatives of the lawyers do not want to compromise. If we were to make a good-faith effort to address medical malpractice around the country, we would fundamentally have to address insurance industry reform, and that bill is completely silent on that issue. Frankly, we need to partially lift the antitrust exemption that the insurance industry has enjoyed for 55 years, that allows them to collude, to engage in anticompetitive practices.”