The point of that is that the Republicans believe that seniors need to put more skin in the game.
This is a stage being set to get rid of Medicare. The Republicans have never liked Medicare.
Seniors already spend one third of their income on health care. They can't afford any more skin in the game.
While our first priority must be pursuing the policies that encourage job creation, this subcommittee's immediate responsibilities focus mor...
Your solution for the unemployed is hold your breath until we pass a VAT in the United States Congress?
I don't believe in the blame-the-victim approach.
I believe that the problem is unemployment, not the unemployed.
So it would be--you would have to have some kind of regulatory system to make sure that insurance companies would sell a policy to an 85-yea...
And when you look at it from the two standpoints of the government and the senior citizen, the government cost would go down if we had a vou...
So if Mr. Ryan and the Republicans succeed in moving to a voucher system--that is, we hand 5,700 or 6,300 or whatever amount to seniors ever...
I applaud you on that, because we always hear about how competition is what drives the cost down.
The procurement will be flat from fiscal 2011 to 2012.
the strength of our national defense ultimately depends on a strong economy as well
The development program, frankly, has not gone as smoothly as we had hoped. The costs have risen.
I am absolutely convinced that we continue to--can continue to provide the best national security possible, give our support to the troops t...
We are going to decide at the end of 2 years whether to go forward with the program, in the strong hope that we will have solved those probl...
That, obviously, is a major challenge, the tens of billions of dollars more than was expected that are being spent on that critical piece of...
can you think of any reason why a small business man or woman could not find a way for health care, if they're making money?
