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When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

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

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.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

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 believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

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.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.