Generally--and that is at least a little bit surprising, and generally, it is a folks at the other end of the spectrum, the low and middle, especially low, that don't get adequate services.

I don't know how you could say that wouldn't be good.

Unless you at least embrace what is done in all other industries, which is make it easy for people that want to buy your services know what it is going to cost, embrace competition, don't try to keep people out of the business, you are…

Health care has been something I wrestled with long ago, and the whole spectrum from early childhood through when you are needing to look at how you are going to spend your last years.

Generally--and that is at least a little bit surprising, and generally, it is a folks at the other end of the spectrum, the low and middle, especially low, that don't get adequate services.

What we have just been hearing here is just what I like about a committee like this.

That is the kind of stuff I have been appalled by from the time I took on health care reform.

I don't know how you could say that wouldn't be good.

Thank you, Chairman Casey.

I have been the most vocal Senator that our health care system is broken.

It begs the question then, is the low-income stratum across the country being served adequately?

That sounds unaffordable, so.

That sounds unaffordable, so.

Something has got to give.

What we have just been hearing here is just what I like about a committee like this.

We have got to have transparency across the spectrum of health care, and when you get to the tail end of life...

If you want to be in the biggest part of our economy, health care, and especially at the tail end of our lives, be out there, be open.

That is the kind of stuff I have been appalled by from the time I took on health care reform.