Health data ultimately belongs to the patient, not to EHR vendors, and an EHR vendor should not be permitted to 'hoard' patient data in order to gain a business advantage.

It seems past time to eliminate the perverse incentives and administrative barriers and just get this done.

The standard prescription is that Americans should put more money aside. This recommendation glosses over a critical driver of unpreparedness. Wall Street is bleeding savers dry.

Let us just stay focused on this question about cost.

Federal law allows individuals, non-profits and small businesses who sue the government and win to recover their costs in a lawsuit if they can show that the Government's legal position wasn't substantially justified.

I am going to press forward with this bipartisan proposal again in this Congress because far too often the critical details of these settlements are hidden from the public.

Our bill would have required Federal agencies to disclose some basic information about the settlement and post a copy of the agreement online, but because we haven't passed the Truth in Settlements Act yet the public can't even see a copy…

Last Congress former Senator Tom Coburn and I introduced a bill called the Truth in Settlements Act which would require the Government to take these settlements with big corporations and make them public, and this bill was blocked from…

because I want to direct this, because one consequence of the shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k)'s and IRAs was that Americans had to rely on investment advisors and broker-dealers who can legally take kickbacks for selling…

I support the effort of the Labor Department to try to get a fiduciary standard for broker-dealers, and I hope it comes through.

The only way we fix that is if we change the rule and say that all of the investment advisors have to put the clients' best interest first.