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I want to thank you for holding this hearing. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on this particular subject.

But when one steps back to look at the larger picture, it is increasingly evident that the many problematic costs in regulations associated with the healthcare law will almost certainly frustrate that purpose.

Ultimately, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that due to the decline in hours worked, Obamacare will result in losses equal to two and a half million fewer full-time workers.

Obamacare continues to wreak havoc on our economy and on job creation.

Please do something about this. There has to be a better way.

I feel the Federal Government has stolen over $5,000 [per year] from me.

Oh, boy, did they do that. A coalition of health insurance companies, agents, and broker groups, and industry friendly insurance commissioners fought this law at every step of the way.

We have to do this nationally. We have to make sure that it is fair for everybody.

The Minimum Medical Loss Ratio has been a success for consumers.

Are people going to pay more? The answer is 'yes.'

If you are going to raise a certain amount of revenue and it is going to be paid for by a certain number of people, if that pool shrinks, the people who are left in the pool are going to pay more.

In the interest of transparency, though, some of these things, these waivers and delays, would you agree to submit...

There is no more important domestic policy issue, in my view, than dealing with the debt and deficit challenge that we are facing.

But it is a tool. It has been available to Congress, but it's very difficult to feature a bill passed by Congress if the Administration has taken a hard stand saying I'm not going to sign a bill or entertain a financing mechanism that…

We're unable to pass long-term funding transportation bills rooted in bold ideas.

We need a fix on this and I hope we can come up with a solution.

The Administration has, in testimony in front of this Committee and others that I've been involved with in my time in the Senate, by your predecessor that that's something the Administration would not support.

This nation, which once dared to dream, dared to lead, has retreated from the legacy of our predecessors.