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Instead of seeing you went to the emergency room. This is not a typical example in this room, but i personally can think of many times when i wanted to see my primary care physician and there was inadequate and available for weeks. Your only option is the emergency room. What would it run in your case . Did she make the case, the system set up wrong case for her . We were available. Broken seven days a week. The weekend of christmas was my weekend to work. We saw 95 patients that weekend. Work seven days a week. We have access to imaging and most of her primary care product is and specialists have that now is a service giving up from studies that decreases the cost of care bulleted to those of extended hours by about 10 . But it really has to be incentivized for what were doing in terms of creating a tepid economic model that is about access that works. In this situation, the patient just wasnt used to it. She caught a friend of hers and said what do you do . In the same thing may have ....
Today the system is gone. Relatives that go back always they always take a suitcase full of medicine. There isnt aspirin in cuba. In the hospitals in cuba, staph infections are epidemic. Everywhere. That is Something Else socialized medicine will do. Under socialized medicine, the doctors cannot make enough money. What happens is, doctors go somewhere else so they can practice. It happens in canada. A lot of canadian doctors cannot practice it because they cannot make any money in canada. Thousands upon thousands of medical doctors left cuba and our practicing medicine in this country. I talked to you yesterday, he said he started the university of new orleans. He said the majority of the professors and medical schools were doctors from the university of cuba that have come to florida and were teaching. This will happen all over the world. It socialism does not work. It is never worked. By the grace of god, i had the privilege whe ....
Focused on health care for quite a bit of time here. Hes a medical doctor. And this is an issue that he focuses on quite a bit. Hes also traded stocks that are potentially affected by legislation that is written here in the congress. Notably Zimmer Biomed that makes medical devices. And democrats are pointing out he made this trade, that they donated money to him after he cosponsored a bill that could have helped their bottom line. So they are saying, arguing, that this is a violation of the stock act. Its a bill that prevents members of congress from basically making insider deals or making insider trades. And they want the hearings delayed because of that. Of course, this one is Going Forward. This is not tom prices official confirmation hearing. This is a courtesy hearing in front of the Health Committee because they ....
Because americans will be watching to see if you follow through on that promise. Now, i also would like to follow up on senator frankens question. I think there was something there that didnt quite get answered. As you know, congressman, the one goal of the Affordable Care act was to push the Health Care Industry to provide Higher Quality care at lower cost. And under the aca, medicare was recently allowed to change the way that it pays hospitals for hip and knee replacements, to something called a bundle. And that means medicare pays a set price for the care associated with hip and knee replacents, anthen the hospitals, not congress, will decide the most effective implants, reduced second surgeries, better fight infections, how to spend their money to deliver Be ....
It seems unlikely. But democrats are going to focus on the big picture today. Theres been no higher priority for democrats in this transition than to slow down the repeal of obamacare, to put sand in these wheels. And they have been successful in doing so, in essentially dividing the president from some of the republicans in congress who were trying to control this debate and simply repeal. The president has felt the heat, that americans do not want repeal without some replacement. And that is going to be the focus of a smart conversation, i think youll hear, between tom price, who i think understands much of this, with democrats on the committee. And going forward, that conversation, the things that the president elect is promising the American People, he will n let happen, is not cheap. And thats why obamacare is the way it is and theyre not going to be able to have it both ways. Thats the biggest challenge that democrats have ....