Peter Roskam

Isn't that an over characterization to say it is a technicality?

This is a situation where one state based on one statute is getting a disproportionate benefit...

You recognize there is bipartisan support to repeal this, don't you?

Well, if it takes from my state and gives to another state, and what it does is it manipulates the definition of a rural hospital...

Mr. McDermott articulated in his opening statement where he said that he wanted to protect Medicare's finite resources.

I think one of the challenges is that there is a zero-sum game element to Medicare reimbursement right now.

I want to draw your attention to an issue that I am sure is familiar with you.

So here is my question: If only 10 States are participating and we are losing $75 billion a year, according to the FBI, doesn't it follow that, if we had every State participating, that this gets better?

This is a scandal. This is an embarrassment.

The Affordable Care Act, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is a $1.8-trillion expenditure.

Wouldn't it be a good thing if we were to amend the law and you had that information and there were a special inspector general that had broad jurisdiction?

Wouldn't it be great, Madam Secretary, if Dr. Price, in the question that he asked, if you were able to say, here is the answer, here is the answer, when he made the inquiry...

Do you think it encroaches on First Amendment?

Thank you, Mrs. Walorski. Mr. Speaker, at this point, I would like to yield to the gentlelady from Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.

I thank the gentleman for his insight and for his perspective and for his admonition for action. Mr. Speaker, at this point, I would like to yield to the gentlelady from Indiana (Mrs. Walorski), a member of the Armed Services Committee.

I thank the gentlelady. At this time, I would like to yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber).

I will yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Franks). As he is approaching the microphone, let me just make one point, and that is something that Mr. Davis just highlighted. Sanctions are working. Sanctions have brought the Iranians to…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis).

I thank the gentleman for his insight and for his leadership on this important issue, and particularly his highlighting that the timing, Mr. Speaker, is an illusion, as the gentleman said, to think this all turns on a dime on the 1st of…

I urge an ``aye'' vote on H.R. 2769, and I yield back the balance of my time.

What is it that animates your hope that the activity of your agency that everybody says has this type of fraud rate--you agree with that, do you not?

You are not aware of the GAO report? You are not aware of the Attorney General's assertions about fraud in Medicare?

The point is it was not on purpose, the timing of this was not on purpose, and the delay of the employer mandate was not something you contemplated.

That is an embarrassment that we could see a foreshadowing of it when then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this out loud.

Average healthcare costs per family are going to go down $2,500 a year. Do you remember that? That is not true.