Political Quotes

“This bill is on the floor for one reason and one reason alone. That reason is that across this country there is a crisis. The crisis is that the cost of medical malpractice insurance is so expensive that trauma centers have to close, that obstetricians cannot deliver babies anymore, that neurosurgeons cannot preserve lives, that orthopedic surgeons cannot do what they are supposed to do. It is a crisis. It also so happens that if this bill is passed, it will, according to the CBO, reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance by 25 percent which will go a long way to solving that crisis. It also has some side benefits. By making the cost of medical malpractice insurance less expensive, it makes the cost of health care less expensive which means that more employers can offer more of their employees insurance. In fact, according to the CBO, 3.9 million Americans who do not have health care today would get health care just because we passed this bill. We ought to do it.”