"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."
"We have strongly embraced that as part of our basket of recommendations."
"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."
"What I will guarantee is that this hearing from our side of the table will be conducted with the utmost of civility."
"Fortunately, when we pass national health reform, we will begin a new era in women's health."
"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."
"We need to de-link it from the employer and give it to the individual American so everyone can shop around for their policy."
"We're worried that Congress has been forced into some tax provisions that they wouldn't otherwise have had to be forced into because of the lack of system-wide cost containment."
"In a small State, in an exchange, you only had two companies that were carriers in that State."
"To claim that cutting Medicare by half a trillion dollars will have no impact on senior citizen benefits mocks voters and insults our intelligence."
"We need health reform, but this is not the reform we have."