Bill Cassidy

The concern, though, is that policy is manipulating process in science to achieve an advocacy as opposed to achieving truth

Going back to green chemistry, it seems to me as if that would be the basis for a proposal regarding inherently safer technology.

I am not sure why it has taken you so long to implement these suggestions I put forth...

Thank you for creating jobs, and I am very sorry for the impediments put in front of you by the Federal Government.

I am feeling more sympathy for OMB right now.

I can tell you that that would be counter to what you would do--I am a doctor.

Can I ask one more question before I run out of time, Ms. Montgomery? I read in the Wall Street Journal that if they have this interactive game and they make the tractor red, white, and blue on a patriotic holiday, people are more likely…

I will tell you, though, but we have got to move beyond feeling pain to actually having something where a parent can look at and say it is one paragraph, boom, this works and this does not.

I never recall being asked if I am over 13. I assume iTunes knows I am over 13.

Any comment on that and any way we can address that?

So is there a worldwide supply of drugs that are currently in shortage here? It is just that we are not trusting the manufacturing process by which they are produced and therefore do not allow their importation?

But there are a heck of a lot of generics being manufactured in India and other Third World countries so are they just not producing the ones that we are in short supply of or are we just not confident of the quality of the product which…

We think of Hepburn from China causing many deaths, correct?

There are some problems with the way the statute was drafted because it didn't take into account the fact that if you have a consumer-directed plan...

This MLR is clearly prejudiced against such plans.

Why would we have a policy which is prejudicing against the purchase or the delivery of a plan?

Now, it seems like there is a clear prejudice here because the insurance company has fixed costs.

So let me ask you, has there been any sort of, for example, regression and analysis to see if there is a secular trend that is just continuing downward usage as we increase taxes versus this kind of significant commitment of Federal…

Do we know that the effects of this taskforce, which I am sure consume a fair amount of resources--are they responsible for our decrease in tobacco usage or would it just be the fact that we are taxing the heck out of it and that it making…

So is it possible to surely make me fully aware of this but I am not fully aware of it because it is somewhere on line 47 of paragraph 42?

Now, what if it is a prescription medication?

Well, I buy glucosamine chondroitin just to tell you more about myself than you care to know.

But what about my credit card company?

If Medicare is now paying less than Texas Medicaid, what will that do for access to services for those who have Medicare?

Under current law Medicare will be paying providers less than Medicaid.