"So clearly, the money generated by rising premiums was not being used for medical or patient care, my point."
"This hearing is also going to focus on legislation to repeal the grandfathered health plan regulation, and doing so basic consumer protections like ending lifetime coverage limits and rescission of co..."
"I think this is utterly outrageous that we should be spending our time doing that when the American people are looking to us at this moment for help."
"Our legislation said that preexisting conditions for children will not be a reason to exclude children from health care."
"By law, insurance companies have to spend at least 80 percent of their premium dollars on medical care and health quality improvement as opposed to administrative costs, marketing, executive salaries ..."
"I just wanted to correct one item that I think was mistaken that was mentioned in questioning."
"What we are witnessing once again today is an effort by the Republicans to do the bidding of the insurance companies at the expense of ordinary consumers."
"In 2010, Mr. Larsen, United Health, WellPoint, Humana, Cigna and Aetna made combined profits of $11.7 billion."
"Some have actually lowered premiums, making it easier for consumers, that the number of insurance agents and brokers... has actually gone up."
"We are investing right now billions of dollars in oil and gas companies. We are investing, as my colleague Mr. Markey said, in a questionable technology, risky technology called nuclear."
"I am very concerned here that this is an attack on a program that, let us face it, when you invest in various innovative and novel technologies that we need to do, it is not true, Mr. Silver, that the..."