"They need the right people. You are not going to get good, competent people to work for the government if you underpay them."
"Proposals are to weaken the standards, spend less money on the FDA."
"Hon. Michael C. Burgess, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, opening statement."
"This healthcare law that was signed 15 months ago contains countless policies that will essentially disrupt the practice of medicine."
"The Independent Payment Advisory Board represents the worst of both."
"It is not accountable to any constituency. It only exists to cut provider payments to fit a mathematically-created target."
"Dr. Burgess has called IPAB 'Armageddon.'"
"I have talked to the doctors in Ms. Schakowsky's district and they tell me to a man and a woman that they are in deep trouble because they cannot afford the cost of delivering their care."
"If this Congress continues to bury its head in the sand about that, we are going to find that the world becomes very, very hostile."
"The point he wanted to make was that drugs cost too much."
"something magic happens when people spend their own money."
"it just takes me back to a speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964."