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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

my hope is that a lot of folks, including people in this room... will answer that call as well.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

We cannot forget them. I am not going to, and I do not think you want us to do that.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

I think finding a way to get better competition and less regulation, I think, would free up and bring more carriers into the market.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

Insurance does not work really well when you are only insuring the people who really need it.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

the Affordable Care Act is working in their States, lowering the uninsured rate and improving their insurance marketplaces.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

My Republican colleagues, several of them, have recently introduced legislation to roll back the individual mandate.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

Medicaid expansion has been critical to lowering the cost of private insurance and improving the health of their residents.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 14, 2016

We had the longest markup in history on the Finance Committee.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2016

Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on rollcall 505, 506, and 507. I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall 505 and 506, and ``aye'' on rollcall 507 had I been there. ____________________

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Mike Levin
@mikelevin· Democratic · CA· Sep 14, 2016

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 506. ____________________

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

In this great country of ours, we had folks who knew that if they got sick, that might mean personal bankruptcy for them.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

You have talked a great deal about how we have to keep robust competition.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

Do you think it would be good to have public hearings before a major merger of the magnitude that we are seeing in Ohio, which will limit competition?

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

So, maybe, I will open it to the panelists and maybe Mr. Kreidler will mention--what should we be doing? And then, the others--what should we be doing to reign in these outrageous price increases from drug companies when there is not even…

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

I have never seen a perfect bill. I do not think one exists and never will exist, so you have to go back and refine it and try to find those changes.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

I am particularly concerned--and I am sure my colleagues have received all sorts of correspondence on what is happening with drug manufacturers--the recent EpiPen situation, where you have a drug that really has not changed much in years…

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 14, 2016

We have to figure out how to deal with some of these very complex issues and do it in a collaborative way.

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