Political Quotes

“I believe. Unlike most Republicans, I was a trial lawyer. I made my living trying to enforce the rights of people, and at one time I had the largest medical malpractice verdict in the State of South Carolina. And I can tell my colleagues, my client would rather have had good health care than the money. I know what I am talking about. I have sued doctors who are medically negligent, and it takes years and it is no fun. The goal that I have today is to get people the treatment they need. Let us talk about the lady who died of cancer. My mother died of cancer. Under this bill that I am supporting here, this is what would happen. An individual does not have to wait 43 days and get told no. The first thing that is a difference today is when a doctor calls up and says the patient needs cancer treatment, they are talking to a doctor, not a nurse. In their bill it can be a nurse. It does not have to be a doctor. So it is doctor-to-doctor. We require that now. No more clerks. The clerks are taken out of the mix and we replace it with a medical doctor. I have lived in the real world, and sometimes doctors have an allegiance to the company and not to what is good for medicine.”