it is about the money we spend that is used inefficiently and ineffectively.

the private sector can't possibly be run the way a government does.

I really don't understand how people can indulge in deficit spending, not year after year but decade after decade.

I have yet to have a small business person sit at that table and say that they felt that we did not have any effect.

I spent almost every day at town halls and those type of things with local folk and small businesses.

the real elephant in the room is the fact that we don't have enough revenue to continue to build a business model that would make sense in the private sector.

Now, I am understanding some of the people that I represent, some of their increases are going to be 38 to 40 percent.

When you take in $1 in premium and pay out $1.20 in claims, that is not a sustainable business model.

I come from the private sector, and I was not here whenever the healthcare law was debated and then passed, but I can tell you as a person who actually provides insurance for the people that I work with, we have seen premiums--this is for…

You are calling out things that you see on the horizon, kind of sending out warning flags of, look, we are not going to be able to sustain this kind of program if we don't do something dramatic soon.

So all the revenue we collect comes out of working people. And we have seen a very low labor participation rate.