Loose Lips

"As Senate Democrats move closer to fixing our broken health system, the insurance industry continues their 'say anything' strategy to deceive the public. So far, all we've gotten from the defenders of our broken health system is a series of misleading reports, scare tactics, and an obstruction manual."
—Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, rejecting a BlueCross BlueShield Association-sponsored study that said that average annual medical claims for individual plans will be 54% higher than they are today five years after implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

"This tax is effectively a 'Soccer Mom' tax that will adversely impact mainstream American wives and mothers, who are the majority of plastic surgery patients."
—Renato Saltz, MD, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, complaining about a proposed federal "bo-tax" of 5% on cosmetic surgeries and related medical procedures.

"There are very good people who work registries who do not want to be tied to anything regular. There's another group of people who are working registries because, guess what? They can't work anywhere else."
—Katherine Eaves, chief nursing officer at Riverside (CA) County Regional Medical Center, in a scathing Los Angeles Times/ProPublica investigative report detailing shoddy background checks and screening procedures in the temporary nurse staffing industry.