Political Quotes

“Again, it is just some guidance so people will know that if they make that call for pre-clearance, that if that decision is made that they have some appeal process, and that is just fair. I do not want to particularly go hire a lawyer to do it, I just want to have some process that that layperson can do. The confidentiality of medical records, I know it is part of the President's plan; and also, with what we are concerned about with genetic privacy, we need to make sure that our medical records are as confidential as possible and yet still allow for research. But with what is happening in the National Institutes of Health and the discovery of genetic makeup of ourselves, we need to make sure that we protect individuals so that they are not excluded from health care because of their genetic makeup that they do not have anything to do with, because we are forcing them then onto the public system where all taxpayers have to pay.”