President Obama made it a priority to reduce improper payments when he took office, and we should be pleased to see that over the past 3 years the Federal Government has avoided making $47 billion in improper payments.

Before we passed the Affordable Care Act, there were about 50 million people in the United States without health insurance.

There will always be forces aligned against progress, against equality, and against basic human dignity.

Obamacare raided $700 billion from Medicare, including $300 billion from Medicare Advantage alone, to pay for the ACA.

We finally banned insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions.

You can't keep your insurance, even if you liked it. You can't keep your doctor, even if you have been seeing him for the last 30 or 40 years.

I just came from a markup in Ways and Means, where, on a vote of 39 to 0, we voted to do a fix for three months of the SGR.

It is cruel and fiscally irresponsible.

Are we as a society better off now? The answer is a resounding yes.

It is hard to imagine a reason for this other than simple spite.

It was unhealthy, it was unfair, and it was unsustainable.