[Some lawmakers are also skeptical.] This type of pay-for-performance program will give government bureaucrats more say over what's good treatment, ... a government bureaucrat will decide what performance we pay for. |
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters. |
I don't want the feds to deal with [gouging], |
I'm offering to sign a bill and not veto it. |
If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it. |
none of this is any good unless we can get a signature, and we're moving, I think, in the right direction. |
Our governor took care of it...that's who I want to take care of it, |
People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening. |
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force. |
The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side. |
The nation can't afford that kind of inefficiency, red tape and inflated costs when we have an entire region to rebuild, largely at taxpayer expense, |
The president has committed to sign our bill with this amendment, ... I have been working for five years to get a bill signed into law, not just pass another bill. Like it or not, we have to work with this president. |
There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it. |
These figures show an immediate need to redouble our efforts to increase our voluntary compliance programs that have proven so effective in reducing workplace injuries and death where they have been implemented. |
These talks are not for show, ... We hope to work out a compromise, and the president is committed to keeping the lines of communication open with Norwood throughout. |