Mark Kirk actually said...

The Congress appropriated a very large amount of money for health IT over at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Kirk emphasizes the significant funding allocated for health IT by Congress.

03/30/2011

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These institutions--one of the colossal failures in U.S. history, $182 billion now that taxpayers have squandered on these institutions.

I mean, we are talking about tens of billions of dollars here. You already waste $60 billion a year, according to your own estimate.

No, but you didn't make the estimates. I mean, the actuary is saying to us, 'I don't have a back up for this.'

So we really shouldn't trust what you say because you are not willing to back it up or even ask the actuary to do this.