Mike Braun

It's easy to understand why we are where we are.

I think offering a Medicare-X policy on the exchanges and allowing people... to shop and try to find the most economical plans, I think that would be a good thing.

When I put that into my insurance plan, costs started going down by 50 percent.

I think that is totally off base.

Prevention is worth--an ounce of that is worth a pound of cure.

I don't think it was ever intended, just evolved that way, to cover everything.

I'm simply asking for one thing. That is transparency throughout the system, like we have in all other markets.

Obamacare gave us, I think, some things that address the fact that everybody should have access.

Unless we fix the underlying system, don't expect much to change regardless of what we do here.

It's easy to understand why we are where we are.

I was finally sick and tired of hearing how lucky I was that my premiums are only going up 5 to 10 percent a year.

In this country everybody ought to deserve good health and well-being, but we've got a monstrous system that we've evolved into.

I was finally sick and tired of hearing how lucky I was that my premiums are only going up 5 to 10 percent a year.

I think that is totally off base.

The largest sector of our health care economy is now hospitals, large corporate hospitals.

When I put that into my insurance plan, costs started going down by 50 percent.

I think there’s not a strong rationale for limits on the entry of new hospitals into hospital markets.

I'm simply asking for one thing. That is transparency throughout the system, like we have in all other markets.

In this country everybody ought to deserve good health and well-being, but we've got a monstrous system that we've evolved into.

I think offering a Medicare-X policy on the exchanges and allowing people... to shop and try to find the most economical plans, I think that would be a good thing.

Obamacare gave us, I think, some things that address the fact that everybody should have access.

It's easy to understand why we are where we are.

Unless we fix the underlying system, don't expect much to change regardless of what we do here.

You are welcome. I yield the floor. Recognition of the Majority Leader The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized. Continuing Resolution

Do we have the political will to do it if we want to save the system for those that are going to be retiring down the road.