Orrin Hatch actually said...

"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."

"We believe these findings will say quite a bit about the lack of accountability for these types of business relationships or arrangements."

"Simply put, PODs are medical device businesses in which a physician is both an investor and a distributor--essentially a salesperson--of either the devices or some of the components."

"inherently suspect"