"Now, while my Republican colleagues have focused on destroying healthcare reform, we have focused on trying to make it work."
"Over the past 5 years, the law has been an indisputable success."
"I am very disappointed to learn, Mr. Brady, that the Senate, in considering SGR, will vote on an amendment repealing the individual mandate--the only nongermane amendment."
"The reality is that this Act is working. It is not perfect, as Mr. McDermott said."
"We have to end the day of the freeloader, because healthcare costs affect the economy."
"Mandating that everyone must be covered is counter to a free lunch."
"Let us all remember that the individual mandate was a bipartisan idea."
"Yes, they have signed up for the Affordable Healthcare Act. They have signed up at the level that the subsidy is given to them."
"The other concern that I am beginning to hear from my constituents is that the penalties are about to ramp up."
"By charging the National Academy with recommendations, we take the politics out of it, and focus more directly on the science."
"I believe that there are some dangers to our Social Security system, to all of it, but that those dangers have less to do with the fact that we have an aging population which puts more demands on the ..."
"I believe that there is unanimity that some reallocation will be necessary as we have done 11 times in the past, or six to be more precise from Congress; 11 total times in the past, and that is what m..."