Political Quotes

“the Senate just passed a bill that takes a major step--major step--to bringing health care into the information age, finally. This bill, the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, reflects the hard work by Senator Enzi, to whom I will turn the floor over shortly, myself, Senator Kennedy, Senator Clinton, and many others. This bill will do as much as anything we have done in this Congress and the last Congress and the Congress before that to cut waste and inefficiency out of our health care system. What the bill does is encourage the use of secure and interoperable health care records, electronic records, electronic medical records. This has a huge benefit for every American. It reduces waste and inefficiency. It reduces medical errors. It improves the quality of health care. It reduces health care costs throughout the system, raising quality. When you lower costs and you raise quality, by definition, you improve access as well. This bill will help empower patients to become full partners in what we all have as a vision; and that is, a patient-centered, provider- friendly, consumer-driven system that will be driven by information, and be driven by choice, and be driven by control. Patient privacy is protected. This secure exchange of lifesaving information improves efficiency throughout the system.…”