Political Quotes

“Thank you, Dr. Gingrey. I appreciate that. Let me talk about a couple of important aspects of this bill and understand that if you have a car and it has a flat tire, you don't get rid of the car; you change the tire. But if you have a car with a great tire and the car is not running and it's broken down, you get a new car. What we have here is a health care bill that indeed does have a few pages and some parts that we all agree on and we want to work on those together. However, there are also thousands of pages of other problems and tens of thousands of pages, perhaps hundreds of thousands of pages yet to be written by boards, panels and commissions yet to be appointed on issues we have yet to know what is going to be included in this. And that is part of the reason why employers are frightened about what may be in this bill. Members of Congress shake their heads and say how could something so massive--and it's going to cost over a trillion dollars a year to administer this plan--how could this happen without Congress really having oversight? Let me mention two areas of this which I am deeply concerned about. We know that one of the ways we can provide better care and ultimately save a lot of money has to do with disease management, or care management.…”