01/27/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"I believe that it is an international embarrassment that the United States of America remains the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right."
"The bottom line is you have a failing healthcare system and everybody who has spent 5 minutes thinking about it, understands it."
"In the world that we lived in, it would be the contractor would have to pick up--'Sorry you screwed up, guys. You have to eat it.'"
"Ten thousand Americans with disabilities died last year while they were submitting claims to a Social Security Administration that does not have the staff or the funding to process those claims."