Michael Burgess

It is just fundamentally wrong that a hospital can own a doctor, but a doctor can't own a hospital.

It is just fundamentally wrong that, because of an academic degree that I have, I am not able to engage in a lawful practice in this country.

I know the State legislature is working on something now. Yes, time marches on. Things are likely to change, but CMS needs to provide us an answer why they blocked this action by the Texas legislature.

We stand ready to help you with any kind of legislation that you need.

We want to help, and legislatively, if we need to.

But they are getting in. They are stealing discounts that were intended for the patients.

I hope this committee will work on the concept of physician ownership of hospitals.

Last Congress Mr. Sarbanes had a very good idea about physician reentry.

Ultimately the decision was made by the Executive. People do need to hold the White House accountable on this. It is shameful. It should never have occurred.

No kidding. It really did. So who makes that decision?

Who had the authority? Are you required to follow law as passed by Congress?

You are sending kids out there and you do not know where they are going or who they are going to.

I kind of knew this was happening, but like the chairman, I went to Fort Bliss in 2021.

The ability to release a child to someone who has not been properly checked is of great concern.

It is a failure because of poor planning on the part of HHS and mismanagement of the law passed by Congress.

I can only draw the conclusion that you didn't look at the data that was available.

I voted against the No Surprises Act because I was worried about this exact thing.

I cannot afford to see a Medicare patient. That is a tragedy.

One of the things that has come up over and over again in my world is what is happening to--it is one thing to have coverage, but if you have got no one to deliver the care it becomes extremely problematic.

We have burdened them with an untenable amount of debt. And unfortunately, they are the ones who are going to have to pay it.

We are very quickly on the road where we are going to be spending more money, mandatory spending, on the interest payments that we spend on defense of the United States.

But unfortunately, every dollar that we are talking about is going to be borrowed.

Oh, my God. You have described an absolutely staggering, astonishing volume of dollars which the country didn't have.

I don't see how it is sustainable, what the Democrats have put us into.

I have a bill with Henry Cuellar of Laredo. It is a bipartisan bill to repeal the ban on physician-owned hospitals.