"I think we should tackle this issue sooner rather than later. In fact, I think we should get to it right away."
"If you are simply transferring a Medicare beneficiary from the Medicare system into the private health market, and the growth in costs in the private health market is the same or higher than Medicare,..."
"So once it is fully phased in, and the chairman mentioned reductions in the Medicare. So some of the savings we achieved, a significant amount of savings we achieved, were in reducing these overpaymen..."
"And in fact, just to close out, Mr. Chairman, in your testimony you point out that in those cases where your support, the amount of your voucher does not keep pace with the market costs of health care..."
"Mr. Chairman, if I could just take 5 seconds, as part of it, I think we should remember that some the adjustments he made was to tax capital gains and dividends at the 28 percent level, the same rate ..."
"I would suggest that if we could have a partner in coming to that balanced approach that we talked about, we would be able to tackle some of these things."
"Again, welcome, Mr. Secretary. Having participated in some of those rounds, my sense was they basically collapsed because of the fundamental issue that we are debating right here in this committee, wh..."
"That is not what the Ryan budget proposes, I would point out, although there are some people who have suggested that we need to cut faster now."
"This budget represents a plan. It represents a responsible plan, a good plan."
"What you see here is after the 1993 budget agreement when the top marginal rate was raised to 39.6 percent, you saw over 20 million jobs created during that period after the 2001-2003 tax cuts, so-cal..."
"Fundamentally we have got to figure out a way to come together to resolve these issues."