Orrin Hatch actually said...

"The patient has a right to know, and then, of course, taxpayers, because you have public payers, the people of this country, through the Medicare program."

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

"FDA's proposal to regulate LDTs is a significant change that would impose considerable new burdens on regulated parties."

"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."