I definitely believe those should be passed.

Do the regulations of guarantee issue and community rating penalize people that have been responsible and purchased insurance before they were sick?

I would like to thank the gentleman from Kentucky for his leadership on this issue. Section 5508 of PPACA authorizes the Secretary to award grants to teaching health centers to establish newly accredited or expanded primary care residency…

This should be about consumer choice, not a one-size-fits-all state mandate package that may or may not address a particular individual's needs.

This is about empowering people to make decisions for themselves, not assuming they need the government to protect them for themselves.

As Speaker Hastert used to say, We shouldn't be forcing people to buy a Cadillac when all they need is a Chevy.

the Affordable Care Act also created state-based health insurance exchanges which would allow other insurance carriers to come into states, thereby increasing competition and lowering premiums

I think that this replace plan is not one that is good for American consumers

the protections that would be repealed include, among others, prohibiting gender rating, prohibiting the denial of people and children with preexisting conditions insurance

it is the patient protections that need to be in place

If you would continue, Dr. Parente, would the optimum policy goal be to have a system where consumers have more choice?

Georgia recently enacted a law to allow the purchase of health coverage across state lines.

This proposal was a bad idea on its own terms as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. It is disastrous.

Insurance companies would be empowered to avoid caring for the sick people who cut into their profit margin.

Reduced insurance premiums for some people are little consolation for the consumers who, under H.R. 371, would be left without coverage.

I hope that today's hearing will be a useful one for my colleagues.

This will harm the sick, the elderly, and the disabled--all of whom already pay high costs for their medical care.

Mr. Chairman, I do support the Foxx amendment. I've listened to all the discussion on the floor, much of it dealing, most recently, with not the Foxx amendment, but actually with Medicare, which always catches my attention. You see, Mr…