Rich Neal

It was not just getting consumers in the door, but having them find value in the insurance product and to use the healthcare system in a new, thoughtful way.

The reason that we have Medicare and Medicaid is because conventional economics don't apply to health care.

I think there is general agreement from all the panelists here that conventional economics don't work when applied to health care.

The answer has to be with who made the mistakes and how can we correct it

The Republican party, for all these years, has been bankrupt and remains bankrupt as to how they would undertake a major change

The Republican party has failed to take steps that would have been able to address the issue of premium cost

This hearing is being held to attack what is happening in the private portion of healthcare reform

These efforts mean those with criminal records are less likely to return to our jail, while others will never make the first trip into detention.

I think there is general agreement on that. I understand why.

The American people, for a variety of reasons, have now begun a slow but steady metamorphosis on their support of free trade.

I thought the testimony was superb.

We don't want to pick winners and losers. We are not going to do it through the Tax Code.

Congress is made up more and more today of crusaders as opposed to legislators.

We need to hear from middle class families. We need to talk about expanding the child credit.

I hold to the position that tax policy cannot be done on the basis of political philosophy and needs to be based upon policy philosophy.

Seven to nine million Americans are working part-time that want to work full-time.

I've always thought that the safety net was supposed to act also as sort of a trampoline, that you hit it and you bounce back.

I think that until we begin to address now the 47 million Americans who receive food stamps, trying to figure out how to get many of those people back to work because they really do want to work.

It hasn't been touched.

There is a certain fairness to it all.

We enact a proposal in which 11 million seniors will get a tax cut immediately.

If you are single and make more than $25,000 and if you are a married couple and make more than $32,000, that is a disgrace.

It says that no one can retire into poverty.

I maintain and I hope we have a hearing on this because I think there is an easy pragmatic solution.

We have shied away from it.