I appreciate the exceptional work that Senator Wyden has done on health care reform.
I also should advise members and their staffs that tomorrow we will have the Secretary of Treasury, Mr. Geithner, here t...
I have had some of the most prominent economists. We have had them testify here. We had Allen Sinai sit at that desk and...
The reimbursement system has to change.
You cannot grow the Government at that rate and catch your tail.
And this represents the best of our democracy, having a serious debate about serious things.
We should not take that off the table because I think your counsel there is excellent.
We will be judged whether we were responsible or not.
my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.
I like that idea very much.
the notion that we are going to go from 16 percent of GDP to 18 to 20 percent of GDP, we are on a track now by 2015 we a...
we have got to be able to do better than this and we very much need your help and the help of your associates to point t...
They have been very focused on the long-term issues that confront the country with the budget and the complete unsustain...
So what I would like to do is get rid of the Medicaid program.
I have come to the conclusion--this is critically important--that is that right now the reimbursement system is based on...
Better outcomes, less cost.
we are not even close. I do not think on the last analysis we are in the top 20 in health care outcomes.
let's not let humility prevent us from acting, because the course we are on is completely and utterly unsustainable.
