Scott Gottlieb: “I think we should start lifting these restrictions as aggressively as we put them in.”

I see it as a strengthening, because we are going from a hard threshold of 30 percent to a risk-based threshold of 50 percent.

coverage doesn't necessarily equal access and coverage doesn't change whether or not a person is a good consumer of health care services.

If we`d had a president aggressively acting from the beginning, where would we be today?

I think what the Affordable Care Act really does is force us back into that old option, the HMO-style option, where you are trading away the flexibility in favor of this government-guaranteed benefit package.