If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit plan and become a defined contribution plan, would it not?

I think it is the first hearing that Republicans have held in the Ways and Means Committee to advance their plan to end the Medicare as we know it.

I am going to go on record again making clear the strong opposition that Democrats have to the House Republican proposal.

The CBO has said it would lead to an increase in overall national health spending as seniors and people with disabilities are moved into less efficient, more costly private plans.

Basically Republicans want to take away Medicare's guaranteed benefits and replace it with a voucher and put the insurance companies back in charge.

I can count on maybe one hand the Democrats who support vouchers or similar proposals.

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.

You may not like it, but it doesn't.

It is apparent to me in this hearing from the testimony presented today that the Democrats' health care law is unconstitutional and will rob Americans of their current health plan and further hinder economic growth.

First, you could pay the penalty and remain uninsured.

I want to thank Mr. Waxman for yielding to me at this time. I rise in opposition to H.R. 5, brought to the floor by my Republican colleagues. It does two things. It repeals IPAB as created in the Affordable Care Act, and it enacts a…

We are more than a decade away into the debacle known as SGR reform.