We've given up our energy independence. We've done so many things that tilt the whole analysis.

We've been off the mark for 20 years.

I'm simply asking for one thing. That is transparency throughout the system, like we have in all other markets.

I was finally sick and tired of hearing how lucky I was that my premiums are only going up 5 to 10 percent a year.

Madam President, I was on that trip with Senator Scott back in, I believe, August of 2019. What struck me about that visit, as we went to almost every perimeter in Israel, is how they had to be on guard constantly--constantly--to keep from…

I think offering a Medicare-X policy on the exchanges and allowing people... to shop and try to find the most economical plans, I think that would be a good thing.

Madam President, throughout their history, the children of Israel have known persecution and sorrow. They have lived in exile and enslavement. They have faced bigotry and violence. Entire nations and civilizations have sought to extinguish…

I think offering a Medicare-X policy on the exchanges and allowing people... to shop and try to find the most economical plans, I think that would be a good thing.

When I put that into my insurance plan, costs started going down by 50 percent.

Unless we fix the underlying system, don't expect much to change regardless of what we do here.

I was finally sick and tired of hearing how lucky I was that my premiums are only going up 5 to 10 percent a year.

I don't think it was ever intended, just evolved that way, to cover everything.

It's easy to understand why we are where we are.

I'm simply asking for one thing. That is transparency throughout the system, like we have in all other markets.

In this country everybody ought to deserve good health and well-being, but we've got a monstrous system that we've evolved into.

I think that is totally off base.

Prevention is worth--an ounce of that is worth a pound of cure.

Obamacare gave us, I think, some things that address the fact that everybody should have access.