"I like the concept that we have now, in effect, an early warning system, on the political side of this to check in at regular intervals to adjust and enforce and insist in ways that we could not do be..."
"The Bay does need to be cleaned up. It needs to be addressed nationally."
"There needs to be a national approach to addressing this issue."
"I think our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are in a difficult place right now because they know that if this works it is going to do really great things for their constituents."
"The stuff that the Affordable Care Act contain that has already taken effect actually are working pretty well, like keeping young people on their parents' insurance coverage until age 26."
"You look at the reduction in out-of-pocket expenses because we have eliminated some copayments for our seniors for certain kinds of preventive screenings and other things."
"The question I wanted to ask you is, I guess there are three categories of States in terms of how they have responded to the challenge of the exchanges."
"Medicaid is an important program. We view it as a critical safety net that provides healthcare coverage for those individuals who have been shut out of private insurance."
"We are talking about a program that covers children and adults with disabilities, and pays for nearly half of all long-term care services."
"The Affordable Care Act, as we know, includes an expansion of the Medicaid program to include more low-income adults."
"If you cut Medicaid, that is essentially cutting jobs. Medicaid stimulates the economy."
"My hope, as I yield back my time, is that we can strike the right balance so that it is cost effective to pursue a number of these different opportunities and that we can safeguard, as I said, public ..."