If we could even bend the cost curve just a little bit with preventive care, that ounce of prevention, that is a hell of a pound of cure.
The federal government has proven itself to be an absolutely unreliable fiscal partner when it comes to health care.
Governors are scared to death about what is going to happen by taking on this obligation.
I want you to have the data and I want you to have access.
We are goal-directed individuals as physicians. We always go to work to do our best job.
I think that could be most effective in moving us in a direction so that we get the results we want.
It should be their choice when they go into that system.
And just as a practical matter, you think that is something that should be included in whatever follows on from SGR?
It is damaging to the psyche of America's doctors.
Mr. Chairman, I shouldn't do this, but I actually want to recognize Dr. John O'Shea, who is here in the audience.
I always use the example of Muleshoe, Texas, literally a one-stoplight town with one GP, and it is hard for him to be an...