Mr. Speaker, let me set the record straight here. When people go to the Gimbel Eye Clinic they pay a facility fee. It costs approximately $1,000 for a person to go there.
What this means is that a person who has money can get the cataract surgery ahead of others, but the person who really needs it and probably does not have the money has to wait a lot longer.
What does that $1,000 do? Does it add to hospitals? Does it help the system do a better job? Does it foster better utilization of what we have in place? No. It allows someone to get richer.