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You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

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

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.