Moreover, Obama Care increases Federal Government control over U.S. health care system, increases the third-party payment problem, and reduces consumer choice.

We have to find some way to be able to get plain prices out there so that people can engage with that.

You are doing a lot to push Americans to think about health care in different ways and to be able to encourage us to do some of those things as well.

We should have a very flexible account that wraps around any third-party plan and then let the market determine how much should be paid by the patient and how much by the third-party payer.

I think it is going to be a huge problem, and it is going to be made worse if the application form is 21 pages long.

I think that what we should be doing is making sure that it works.

Based on just typical behavior of individuals, there is this sense that individuals will stay out of the insurance market until they are sick because they have guaranteed coverage at this point.

S. 340 would not establish a precedent, given that the other regional corporations have assured her that they would not ask Congress to allow major changes to their existing land holdings.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and to our ranking member, thank you for the hearing today.

I do hope that we can reach a compromise on this outstanding issue that we can all live with.

This is yet another attempt to try to right a wrong that I really think we should have been able to resolve some time ago.

I think that we're close to working out the final few points of contention.

I think these changes have vastly improved the bill from the 2008 original.

Particularly the department wants to recognize Sen. Murkowski and her staff, for their willingness to work in good faith toward agreements wherever possible.

I think we recognize that 40 years is a long time to wait for conveyances.

Again, to both of you, all of you within your respective agencies, thank you for your efforts in helping us on the Sealaska Lands Provision bill.

We think that it is long enough.

If this legislation can't go through truly those timber jobs are no longer there to make this transition.