I would also share the view, as a couple of you suggested that one source of great unhappiness that I hear about from people is that when they buy their insurance, and then when it is time for them to use their insurance, they are denied…

There is another piece that Senator Grassley and I have been working on that I think would be wonderful to add to CHIP...

We urge you in the strongest terms to renew funding for this important program through 2022 at the currently established levels that enable Colorado to implement a successful program.

I want to take a moment--because my questions on the cost of prescription drugs were ably asked and answered by Senator Wyden's question...

And to add to that, let me say words that have not been said in the Senate before. My questions have been asked.

There is no other market in America where you cannot know what something costs.

They realize they are having to make choices about their lives and their small businesses that no one else in the industrialized world is having to make because our system is fundamentally broken.

What we really need to grapple with--all these Governors have talked about it--is the fact that we are spending twice what any other industrialized country in the world is spending on health care and we are getting worse results…

I would close just by saying to our chairman we have the lowest unemployment rate in the United States of America, and that is our story and we are sticking to it.

There is not anybody I know who epitomizes bipartisanship more than our Governor, John Hickenlooper, my old boss.

It is really important for Americans not to be forced to buy lousy insurance.