Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, perhaps it is a peculiar observation at a time when we focus so much attention on lawyers and lawsuits to suggest that maybe a little bitty part of the problem of malpractice in this country, malpractice litigation, is malpractice itself. The statistics from the Harvard Medical School study conducted by a group of doctors in 1990 suggest that every 7 minutes in this country, someone dies in a hospital from medical malpractice. Maybe that has something to do with why we have a medical malpractice problem in this country. But the suggestion that, well, there will be mistakes completely avoids the question, because the question is, who is going to bear the burden of that mistake, and the suggestion by the author of this amendment that we can somehow give back a foot through medical technology suggests the ability to do something that only God can do.”