Consumer-driven health care... is an attitude.

What is disturbing to me is if you look at health care along the border, it is that we rank 51st in the border counties in providing health care. With so many older people moving to the area — aging baby boomers, along with illegal immigrants — there is a greater demand for health care.

We can do this. That's the attitude everybody has. We're going to rebuild right where we are. I love the coast. It's just so peaceful and serene.

We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively,

This approach has rewarded the over-utilization and misuse of services and resulted in higher payments when health care complications arise.

I would say there are probably 24 that have major mental health medications that they are on.