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The only way price transparency works is, as you said, if you have quality information, and that is how we do tradeoffs.

Actually, without quality information, there is reason to believe it is going to make things worse because people are going to use price as a measure or a marker of quality.

I have had specialists in Maine tell me that when patients realize that, they cancel the screening. It just does not make sense to me.

We need a cyber doctrine or a strategy to make our adversaries understand that they will pay a price for a cyberattack on this country.

Right now, there is no deterrence. We are entirely defensive and ultimately that is a losing strategy.

will you commit to me that you will faithfully implement the policies established by Congress and the funding that are established by Congress for this office?

I see a real vulnerability is voting lists and the lists that are maintained mostly at the state level.

What bothers me in your statement is the word 'offered'. The ones who are not asking for it may be the ones who need it.

Do you have an overall assessment of how secure the American voting system is going into 2018, which is now 4 months away?

I really appreciate your being forthright about that, because I believe that if states understood that, they'd be more receptive to the help that I know Secretary Johnson offered.

the best defense is for the public to understand that it's happening and then they can discount it

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