I think that it is important for some of these previously approved devices to be looked at again.

Patients, industry and the FDA can benefit from a more predictive regulatory framework.

Your testimony also cites the federal preemption for medical devices that prevented U.S. patients from suing Medtronic.

So it appears that the failure of this product is not due to 510(k) process but to regulatory inaction by our own FDA.

Dr. Gingrey compared the Republican plan for Medicare unfavorably to 'throwing grandma off a cliff.'

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

I cannot believe that the individual healthcare consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as healthcare.

Well, Madam Secretary, I agree with the first part of your response. It should be between the doctor and the patient and you don't get that with IPAB.

Madam Secretary, if President Obama had stated publicly that IPAB is a major plank of his plan to save Medicare and you are saying that IPAB, it is just a backstop to Congress coming up with a plan, should the American people infer from…

In the press, Secretary Sebelius has often chided opponents of IPAB for suggesting that it has the power to restrict access to physicians' services or life-saving drugs and treatments, otherwise known as rationing.

I would really appreciate you getting back to me with a report on that.