If we are going to attract young people into primary health care, we must make that profession more financially attractive.

Instead of holding back funding, we propose that the entire increase be used immediately to provide for the expansion of care to 2.5 million new patients.

I think it is a moral argument we need to engage as a country.

It is really important that we not throw seniors and Medicare under the bus because we have failed to address the real problem in health care.

First and foremost, clearly, we must address the issue of primary care reimbursement rates.

I believe it is both. I mean, the point is we are not going to pay all our primary care physicians $500,000 a year.

If we would enact a single-payer national health care program where everyone was entitled to health care as a right, we could focus on delivering the best care in the world to our patients.

If we can train physicians from those rural communities, they tend to stay in rural communities.

We have significantly increased funding for the National Health Service Corps, which says to somebody that if you are graduating medical school $200,000 in debt, we are going to help you address that debt.

What can Congress do to address this very serious issue? Let me just rattle off a few points, and give the microphone over to Senator Enzi.

I believe everyone is entitled [to health care as a right].

Thank you very much, Dr. Mullan.

Thanks to the leadership of Senator Sanders and the ACA, the NHSC has doubled its annual appropriation from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000.

I think the large turnout tells you how seriously many of us feel about this issue.

AAMC applauds subcommittee Chairman Bernard Sanders, and Senators Mike Enzi and Rand Paul for convening this hearing.

I am as of 28 January 2013. I believe I have a solid, not perfect, but a solid, dependable portal-to-decision system in place to be able to get more and more people on it, to be able to check it.

as incoming chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, one of my top priorities will be to evaluate and improve the training and employment programs afforded to our Nation's servicemembers and veterans. Every day, far too many…

I worked very hard to double the funding of community health centers and triple the funding for the National Health Service Corps.

The United States of America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not have a national healthcare system.

If our goal is to make sure that mental healthcare is available to all people who need it, how many thousands and thousands of mental health practitioners does this country need?

When you don't have a system, you're not prioritizing.

The reality is, right now, that we have a primary healthcare system which is a disaster.

I think it's a class issue, too, Mr. Chairman. I think to some degree psychiatry is something that is accessible for urban, upper income folks.

We are not responding to the needs of the American people if there is not an EPA Administrator.

When people have honest difference of opinion, we debate it.