10/11/2011
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"Everyone is busy taking political advantage of a situation, and guess what happens to the can? It gets kicked and kicked and kicked."
"Why can't we move to an upgraded card so that we actually know the recipient is receiving service at the point of service with a PIN number?"
"I think all of us believe in markets on both sides of the aisle, and I think there's--I mean, I certainly agree that if people who use services pay for a portion of those services, utilization is goin..."
"It's kind of a Soviet Union mentality, and that is you give a bucket of money to physicians, and the more that it's utilized, the less they each get."