On the recordFebruary 2, 2011
The President said the same thing in June of 2009 when he visited and spoke to the American Medical Association. So when that issue didn't really come to the floor, as a number of us would have liked, in this health care law that was written, as I say, behind closed doors, they asked Howard Dean, then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, why they don't include it, and he said: We can't stand up to the trial lawyers--who have such a remarkable influence on the party on the other side of the aisle. I am hoping that the President, in his statement in his State of the Union Address, was sincere because it clearly did not follow through what he said in June of 2009 when he met with doctors from all across the country.
