John Murtha: “There is no person that has more concern about the hospitals than him. In my latest campaign, all I heard from my…”

“There is no person that has more concern about the hospitals than him. In my latest campaign, all I heard from my hospitals, in a rural area, We need more reimbursement. These hospitals are bleeding. They are losing money. The biggest employer in every single community that I have is the hospitals and people related to the hospitals. If we do not do something, the doctors' reimbursement is going to go down 4.4 percent. This will raise, not a lot, but it will raise the percentage that rural hospitals get equal to the urban hospitals. We are having a difficult time in Pennsylvania, in my district in western Pennsylvania. Because of malpractice, we are losing doctors. That has got nothing to do with this bill, but the other thing is reimbursement for small hospitals.”