We need to de-link it from the employer and give it to the individual American so everyone can shop around for their policy.

In a small State, in an exchange, you only had two companies that were carriers in that State.

Coerced? We rail against what we ask China to do about coerced sterilizations.

Gender rating, preexisting conditions.

Access to contraception is a fundamental right of adult Americans.

We're very concerned about the changes that happened in the Finance Committee.

To claim that cutting Medicare by half a trillion dollars will have no impact on senior citizen benefits mocks voters and insults our intelligence.

And by an individual mandate, what we mean is that we will help to cover everybody, but everybody's got to participate?

I find it offensive and I find it morally repugnant.

Well, the concept of the medical home, of course, was in the Baucus white paper, and it's something Senator Harkin and I picked up on.

the idea that we're still allowing gender discrimination to go on when we have the power to fix it at long last is particularly disturbing.

For me, health care definitely is a woman's issue.

If we don't end up with everyone in, we're very concerned that at the end of the process when things become available, people will feel very unsatisfied.

community providers that serve predominantly low-income, medically under-served individuals would be covered to provide any service deemed medically necessary or medically appropriate.

We also are stopping insurance companies from charging women more than men--or using preexisting conditions as a reason to deny anyone health insurance.

What I will guarantee is that this hearing from our side of the table will be conducted with the utmost of civility.

Very good. Thank you very much.

We need competition, and we also need malpractice reform to deal with these problems of high suits and high malpractice premiums.

We need health reform, but this is not the reform we have.

We need to take a serious look at Senator Burr's bill that would give everyone tax credits to go out and buy their own plan.

We welcome diverse views. That's how we arrive at what we hope will be the sensible center in which we can achieve health care reform.

No one, no one in the United States of America, in order to get health insurance should ever, ever be coerced into getting a sterilization.

We certainly want to hear about those older women.

But this ridiculous practice of charging women more for health insurance sends the message that we don't want women to receive prenatal services and high-quality maternity care.

We don't want to muzzle or gag rule anybody, but you've gone 2 minutes over.