Louie Gohmert: “I have appreciated my colleague's insights. Somebody who has spent his entire adult life working on the issues of health…”

“I have appreciated my colleague's insights. Somebody who has spent his entire adult life working on the issues of health care and trying to be a healer and a helper certainly has a good idea about ways to fix our health care system. It's just a shame that in the health care bill that got crammed down everyone's throat here that my friend from Georgia as well as so many of the doctors here were not allowed any real meaningful input. And it is interesting, as we think about the health care bill that was supposed to do so much, and you consider it in light of the Speaker's comments, that we need to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it. Well, we're beginning to find out more and more. Now, some of us read through the 1,000-page bill. We read through the 2,000-page bill, and when we got this one between 2,000 and 3,000 pages, frankly, I put off going through that. I knew there wasn't going to be much sleep for a while while I was trying to get through that, and I think I got through about all but about 300 pages. It's tough sledding, though, of course when you are reading through a bill that references other sections and subsections and including other laws that unless you actually go look them up, then it's hard to really get a grasp. Since I have been a judge and dealt with law most of my adult life, sometimes you can pick up things others don't realize.”