You have consistently said that we need to be careful in the short term, do no harm in the short term, if I may, and add...
Do you believe as I do that health care costs are the primary driver of our outyear deficits?
We also spend, as you know, way more money for health care than any other advanced nation in the world.
This has been a terrific hearing. This is terrific and so timely, so timely, as we face the sequestration issues.
I have been urging our chairman and ranking member to do what they have done so many times in the past, and that is to p...
We spend more money for defense as a Nation than I think the next five or six, maybe seven nations combined.
If we cannot find ways to provide for our defense and maybe at the same time save some money, shame on us.
We are eating ourselves to death and at the same time just choking our Medicare program and our budget.
If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barreled shotgun, have the shells, a 12 gauge shotgun and I promise you, a...
The 80/20 rule is Mike Enzi's--I do not know if he wrote it, but it is a great rule.
Thank you so much for joining us and sharing your testimony and responding to our questions.
we have, frankly, led the Nation, under his leadership beginning in 1997
I quoted Mike Enzi, a venerable former mayor of Gillette, WY, who sits right over here next to Mr. Roberts.
I think they are just a great way to try to get better health care results for less money.
I signed into law in my last term as Governor.
I think most of us support the exchanges; God knows I do.
I am the last Senator sitting, not standing, but do not take this as a sign that my colleagues are not interested.
And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make.
