Well, Florida is the opposite of Delaware, because upwards of 40 to 50 percent of Florida is on Medicare Advantage.

we were going to do that with a quality rating system called the Stars.

So your goal, to summarize, would be that you want to have all plans 4 and 5 stars, and that, if insurance companies get to that quality level, they will be making money, the senior citizen will be very happy, and the overall cost to the…

it is the passion that you continue to carry, from being one of the coauthors of the Affordable Care Act, that you bring to the chairmanship of this committee in such things as the hearing today, how to make it better.

A long time ago, this committee was formed when our Nation was facing a crisis of our uninsured elderly.

I wish to ask my colleagues to support the Hagel nomination. Let me just hit a couple of highlights. He volunteered to go into the Army during Vietnam. He was assigned to Germany. He volunteered to go to Vietnam. His brother was assigned…

On February 15, 2013, Navy notified private-sector ship repair contractors of potential cancellations of third and fourth quarter ship maintenance availabilities.

Now my question would be, what are you going to do about it since CO-OPs, in fact, are estimated to bring down the cost 10 to 15 percent for the consumers, for the premium-payers?

the law says that there is going to be a health insurance exchange come 2014.

Well, I can tell you that the representative of the Majority Leader, Kate Leone, in the negotiations, has told this Senator that, first of all, HHS had put CO-OPs on the table as a source of revenue.

Mr. Chairman, if we have this kind of implementation, then we are not going to fulfill the goal that we all set when we laboriously put together, in your committee, this health care bill.

the health care law is working. Now, there are a couple of big obstacles in the way.