Now, asthma sufferers who find themselves awakened at 2:00 a.m. with an unexpected attack and who don't have other medicines in the home don't have immediate access to an inhaler.

A replacement inhaler has been before the Food and Drug Administration's approval board for some time, but the FDA has taken no action to allow for another over-the-counter inhaler to be available for consumers.

I do want to ensure, my vision is that people will have options, that they will not see a 'one size fits all'.

I certainly will not support, and I think it is useless politically, to try to take the money away from the Affordable Care Act.

Any new payment system should rely on improved outcomes, quality, safety, and efficiency.

Together, the public and private sectors can and should work together to get the health care system on a better path to sustainability.

Everyone on both sides of the aisle accepts the premise of the SGR has got to go.

We are likely to face that again, but this time, without all of the good feeling that we all had last August.

I think that the health care system is in crisis, and the other providers have the same problems.

Local markets have different needs, and while one payment model may work in New Jersey, it doesn't necessarily work in Montana.

Moving to a model where fee-for-service no longer exists is, in some ways, problematic because it is the world that many of us--I practiced medicine for 25 years.