John Barrasso: “I come to the floor as a physician who has practiced orthopedic surgery in Casper, WY, for 25 years. I come to offer a…”

“I come to the floor as a physician who has practiced orthopedic surgery in Casper, WY, for 25 years. I come to offer a second opinion on the health care bill that was recently passed and signed into law. My opinion on this bill is very different than what I have heard from the administration, from the Speaker of the House, and from the majority leader because my opinion is that this bill--now law--is going to be bad for patients, bad for patients all around this country, bad for health care providers: The doctors, the nurses, the folks who work in our hospitals, the therapists. I believe it is going to be bad for the taxpayers--people who are going to be left with this large bill to pay for a bill that is not to save a health care system but to create new entitlements and new obligations.”