I thank you very much, Congresswoman Schakowsky, and thank you for that terrific description of the history of Medicare. This has been a Democratic program for more than 43 years now. As Representative Schakowsky just said, I get the same…

We'll just take 5, 9, whatever. It strengthens it and pushes it out so it has the financial strength, reduces the doughnut hole by $500 immediately, and you get----

Madam Speaker, I'm going to fly home hopefully later this weekend, and it is surely important to me that the FAA continues to do what it must do to keep the air safe. And I want to commend the minority as well as the Chair for this…

You're suggesting you go back and take your privatized Social Security savings? They're going to do away with Social Security, too. So they're going to do away with Medicare and Social Security, the two programs that provide security for…

Mr. Holt, you raised a very, very important point, and I want to just follow up. And Ms. Schakowsky also raised this point, and it's the rescission issue. Now, I was the insurance commissioner in California 2003 to 2007. And during that…

Well, we all know the stories of the insured. We all know the stories in our own districts and our own States about those people that have health insurance, but they blow through the deductible and then they blow through the annual, or…

These are the worthless insurance policies that are sold across State lines today. They have a very low lifetime cap. You get a serious illness and you blow through that and you have no more health insurance from that company. Not only…

Before you go there, let me just make this point. This is the point to the insurance companies. The day the President signs this bill, your discriminatory practices are over. You will not be able to discriminate against Americans because…

Thank you so very, very much for a very good and thorough description of the problem that women face in this issue and why this reform is so important to them. I see our colleague from Illinois was getting kind of excited and wanted to get…

Let's take this just for a little more, and then I really want to come back to something that you talked about, and that is the bill that you introduced having to do with the rate regulation process.

But before we go there, the statistics just came out from the Labor Department that the majority of workers in America are now women. If we keep women healthy, then the productivity of America is substantially increased. And in order to…

I think in the testimony that you talked about here in Congress--and I know in California that when Blue Cross Anthem raised their rates about 39 percent on the average, or 39 percent maximum, about 25 percent on the average, and then had…