“I'm sure it's tempting for those who have stood against reform and progress from the beginning to see this as a chance to rip Obamacare apart. The irony of objecting to the delay of a program you've been trying to stop is, no doubt, lost on this room.”—Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) to the House Subcommittee on Health on the employer mandate delay
"The RUC is really just a giant cabal run by the AMA. A private trade association should not have that sort of control over the biggest spending account in the government. It's an outrageous travesty of democracy.”—Thomas Scully, former head of the CMS under former President George W. Bush, in a Washington Monthly story about the SpecialtySociety Relative Value Scale Update Committee
“You have to take away the obstacles, and copays are an obstacle.”—Annamarie D'Souza, vice president of compensation and benefits for Hanesbrands, which opened a clinic at its headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the Wall Street Journal
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