Orrin Hatch actually said...

"Transparency might not prevent every unnecessary surgery, but it's a good place to start."

"I hope that today's hearing will be another important step in our ongoing efforts to provide appropriate oversight and enforcement on this issue."

"We look forward to working with the Senate Finance Committee and the Subcommittee on Health in the coming months to help eliminate Medicare abuse and save the health system and taxpayers billions of d..."

"While these arrangements are not always problematic, we are seeing more and more of these physician-salespeople using the very devices they sell in the surgeries and procedures they perform."