Tom Carper

No, I think it's an incentive for finishing the work that we began in earnest in the last Congress.

The war that's occurring today is a war that's occurring in cyberspace.

I have heard it often, and I believe them, so we have a responsibility here to try to figure this out.

What should we be doing to expand Medicare Advantage in a cost-efficient way that ensures that seniors in all 50 States have a meaningful choice between high-quality Medicare Advantage plans and traditional Medicare?

This has been a terrific hearing. This is terrific and so timely, so timely, as we face the sequestration issues.

We are eating ourselves to death and at the same time just choking our Medicare program and our budget.

We spend more money for defense as a Nation than I think the next five or six, maybe seven nations combined.

We also spend, as you know, way more money for health care than any other advanced nation in the world.

I have been urging our chairman and ranking member to do what they have done so many times in the past, and that is to provide real leadership for us on this committee, and for this committee to provide real leadership for the Senate and…

If we cannot find ways to provide for our defense and maybe at the same time save some money, shame on us.

I think they are just a great way to try to get better health care results for less money.

I signed into law in my last term as Governor.

We have, frankly, led the Nation, under his leadership beginning in 1997

Thank you so much for joining us and sharing your testimony and responding to our questions.

It is a dangerous thing, turning the gavel over to me.

As Senator Carper noted, in the months to come.

How are you planning to test the computer systems for the exchanges to make sure that they work properly?

The 80/20 rule is Mike Enzi's--I do not know if he wrote it, but it is a great rule.

We have to do it right. We have to get it right, and there is a lot that lies on the administration as we implement the Affordable Care Act.

I quoted Mike Enzi, a venerable former mayor of Gillette, WY, who sits right over here next to Mr. Roberts.

And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make.

I think most of us support the exchanges; God knows I do.

I am the last Senator sitting, not standing, but do not take this as a sign that my colleagues are not interested.

I trust Postmaster General Donahoe to make a good contract with Fed Ex and UPS.

We need to give the post office the flexibility to do what they can do to prepare to offer that service.