And the United States of America ranks--what is it?-- about 17th in the world in our health outcomes next to hardly developed countries, and the reason is simple. We have 30 million people who have no health insurance, and then we have…

Let me emphasize that. I think that is one of the most important things that's in our legislation. Because, after all, who does not have some kind of preexisting condition? And for the insurance companies, sometimes they'll call acne a…

France is considered number one in the world in terms of health care results. They have healthier people than anyone else in the world as a population, and they spend far less than we do, about half what we do per person.

I just wanted to talk a little bit about older women because, and really all seniors, but the fact of the matter is that 80 percent of people over the age of 85 are women. Fifty-seven percent of Medicare beneficiaries are women. So when…

We're going to close the doughnut hole entirely over 10 years, but we're going to start right away. $250 it's going to be reduced and, for brand name drugs that are in the--

I wanted to point out that our colleague, Representative Carolyn Maloney from New York, is head of the Joint Economic Committee, which just did a study, too, on the effects of health care, the current health care problems that women face…

I have to say that it is not necessarily just a little bit. At the beginning of September, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice announced the largest health care fraud settlement in history. Pfizer, the…

Thank you very much for reminding everybody, first of all, that Medicare is the government program of health care for older Americans. It is not just a made-up story that sometimes people come up to us and say, Keep government hands off my…

I think it's so important that we explain the details of this bill because there have been a lot of myths out there particularly aimed at older Americans. And it really makes me mad. There has been a lot of fear about how somehow this bill…

Thank you so much, Representative Matsui, for being such a strong advocate for older Americans, really for all Americans, that are going to be helped by this legislation. And we are going to be talking much more about that. I wanted to…

Those are the tragic stories that result from our health care system. But there are also enormous lost opportunities. One of the things that we know about our health care system is people get locked in jobs. They may dream about creating…

The do nothing deal is better than the plan that they say is good for Americans.