I think we're really whistling past the graveyard here.

I'll just try to wrap up what I was trying to achieve with my questioning, first starting out with the question about the private sector, where you've actually come in the private sector and worked toward these solutions.

We have a huge problem with Medicare. As it is, the health care law starting in 2016 adds about a $2 trillion problem to that figure.

It drives me nuts that I cannot get information.

I'm afraid the system is going to be horribly broken because if we roll the budgetary window forward to when the health care law actually gets fully kicked in, about 2016 with full spending, the total cost of the health care law will be…

Roughly, I think he found, for a couple retiring today, basically a two average earner couple, that they would have paid in roughly about $116,000 into Medicare, with an expected benefit--and all these things are time-value-adjusted--of…

So would you say the cost savings you expect really come more from that coordination of care versus just a capitated type of payment system?

But in terms of limiting the increase of cost, certainly from my standpoint, introducing free market principles into health care would be one of those things.

In an earlier response to a question, you were talking about the financial incentives just weren't aligned properly between the two systems.

My concern with what we've just passed here, what the Supreme Court just basically ratified, is we have a whole new entitlement now.

now is the time to be more aggressive, I believe, in your approach to unemployment.

the consequences of long-term unemployment are enormous.

there is no appetite here or anywhere else to do another bailout for the banks.

I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. We're here talking about H.R. 4402 that's going to minimize the permitting process and the delays and streamline bureaucracy around mining. I want to be clear that there is no conversation in this…

Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, roughly 17 million American children with preexisting medical conditions can no longer be discriminated against and be denied health insurance by insurance companies. And yet, rather than…

The time of the gentleman has expired.

If you are going to support our efforts to subpoena individuals from the Administration, I couldn't ask for more.

I hope the Justice Department will bring the full force of the law against those who leak protected information.