Many witnesses have urged, and the Chairman has expressed interest in, continuing this bipartisan conversation beyond just market stability and going into the areas of cost and quality of care.

If you're not going to come in and provide the basic services and the networks that you're there to do, you're going to have issues, I don't care what State you're in.

As the co-author with Sherrod Brown of the public option that we nearly got into the Affordable Care Act, I appreciate you saying that.

I hope that we also then move on to a discussion about how we continue to get our country healthier, lowering costs...

Ultimately, in my State the business community came together, for instance, and supported Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act...

We came very close. We missed by a very small margin of votes.

Every single person counts. That's the basic foundational principle of our democracy, and that means every single person has to be able to get health care.

There is no way, none, that Congress is going to tolerate a situation where persistently there are counties in this country where people cannot buy insurance on the individual market.

What reinsurance does is it brings down premiums for most people.

There's a cost to it, but it's not a bailout of insurance companies.

One of the things these four hearings has shown is that reinsurance is a really popular idea.

I think people ought to be able to buy into Medicare.

I'm not going to tolerate one. I'm going to find a solution for the one.

Without cost-sharing reductions, as has been pointed out by several senators, the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and our witnesses have said that premiums will increase an additional 20 percent in 2018.

So let's keep in mind also that even if President Trump wanted to extend the cost-sharing payments, the courts might not allow him to do that, unless we act.

Last year, 4 percent of American counties had one insurance company on the exchange. This year, 36 percent have one insurer on the exchange.

Our goal is to see if we can come to a consensus by early next week so that we can hand, Senator Murray and I can hand, with hopefully the support of several Republicans and Democrats...

I made clear at Tuesday's hearing, and I want to repeat, that I am not in any way proposing that we change the patient protection guardrails already written in Section 1332...