It strikes me, at least, that it would make a lot more sense if you want to treat the railroads in sort of a fair way, you have to push that out there, knowing that they're not going to be able to meet the 2015 deadline.

Many of us, my colleagues on the Committee here and others, have introduced legislation that would provide this blanket extension that I referred to, which does have a hard, firm deadline.

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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.

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

In fact, our colleague, Senator Nelson, just introduced a bipartisan bill to improve Medicare's fraud prevention.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think, as I said, outside of Washington you hear these concerns where people are experiencing higher premiums, higher deductibles, canceled coverages, and that sort of thing.

It seems, to me at least, it is better to stop fraud when it occurs rather than to attempt to recoup money that has already been appropriately paid.

I just cannot figure out how we justify these higher rates by suggesting that we have more people insured.

It seems to me that an insurer may actually have a perverse incentive to get an MLR rate that is acceptable, but may drive costs later.

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