
What has been lost in this debate is regardless of who was elected President, we were going to have to do major repairs on the Affordable Care Act.
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What has been lost in this debate is regardless of who was elected President, we were going to have to do major repairs on the Affordable Care Act.

I hope we can get away from trying to make this a partisan debate.

We have a problem where we are seeing nationwide average premium increases of 25 percent.

$406 billion a year of undercollections, about $145 billion of improper payments, add those together, it is almost--well, it is slightly above this year's projected deficit.

I would like your recommendation as to how we might further--not in detailed implementation, but is there some structural way that we can get at the problem of lack of implementation of your very good suggestions?

Providing IRS with additional money will eventually produce more revenue.

Well, not to mention the fact that processing an electronic return is about a tenth as expensive as a paper return.

I think the best chance you have to reduce the deficit or balance the budget is to accomplish economic growth.

I have tried seriously to find economic studies that substantiate that. I have not been able to find them.

We have to be really careful about this, that we not simply give ourselves a tax cut and then lay it on our kids.

I think it was a brilliant step to begin this discussion.

Alzheimer's has become our Nation's most expensive disease. It costs society $263 billion a year; $150 of that comes from Medicare and Medicaid.

For us to say that everything is going well with Obamacare is just not accurate, and that's why I feel that we do need to fix the flaws of what is a well-intentioned but deeply problematic law.

I think most people reject that idea. As you said, we don't want to pull the rug out from under people who are relying on the insurance that has been provided through the ACA.

I have been baffled over the years by what CMS reimburses for and what it fails to reimburse for.

Many of us have expressed concern about what would happen to the millions of Americans who are in the individual market of the ACA on the exchanges.