On the recordMay 12, 2010
My take is that it wouldn't work for Wyoming. But this entire health care bill--law, travesty--isn't going to work for Wyoming. We look at the numbers, and the Congressional Budget Office says 15 percent of hospitals in a few years are going to find they are losing money and they can't stay open. People are going to have to travel long distances, very long distances, to get quality care. Sometimes with weather and with winter, it is very difficult. So I have lots of concerns for all of the rural communities in this country because we have somebody from Boston, or the big city, who doesn't think the way we do in Wyoming or Kentucky or in Kansas. The other travesty of this is that the President of the United States has been in office now for well over a year--almost a year and a half-- and it is only just now he has nominated someone to be in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. I have continued to ask on this floor why that is.
