People ought to be sitting up and taking notice as we use terms like 'soft paternalism' and 'rationing' within almost the same paragraph.

this is about individual patients and the care that they receive.

What we are not in favor of is increasing revenue, is increasing taxes on either business or hard-working taxpayers across this land to chase ever increasing spending.

Many of us are concerned about the competitive bidding process. Many of us don't believe that it is actually competitive.

I want to commend the chairman for holding this hearing, and I want to also recognize and commend the chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Ryan, for his work within our conference in educating people about the need for reform, but also…

One out of every three physicians in this country limits the number of Medicare patients that they see.

The status quo is clearly unacceptable.

By way of clarification and to make certain that folks understand that our proposal is a guaranteed proposal for seniors, it is stated in all of the communication that we have.

The perverse incentives in this bill actually harm the lower wage worker in this country.

The fact of the matter is, many of us have put forward positive solutions.

The status quo is unacceptable. There is no doubt about it.