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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn't changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing's changing, and it really never was gonna change.