Political Quotes

“I believe very strongly in its concept. Let me explain. I guess we had a lot of talk about what is going on here with this specific MSA bill. Let me explain the concept behind medical savings accounts and the fear many of us have with, the best way I can put it, the ``corporatization'' of the health care field and how we see medical savings account as, really, the last chance for patient choice and for compassion in an industry that is becoming more and more regulated by third parties in the fundamental relationship between doctors and patients. If I can, let me just walk back to the system we had before managed care came into place. What we had was a doctor/patient relationship. That was the problem. There was nobody in this relationship who had any incentive to control costs. As a rule, costs escalated out of control. Why? If you were the patient and had first-dollar coverage, who asked how much things cost? Who asked whether you needed one or two or five of these? You took whatever the doctor suggested and you did not pay for it, so why did you care?”