John Dingell: “Time is short. If we don't work together in good faith on this issue, we will not be finding a solution.”

I would suggest that the staff report should be reviewed with the utmost of care and deposited then very carefully in the nearest large wastebasket.

It is a very happy system. It works well. And it has had no controversy that I can recall except one instance.

As of today, as I said, more than 8 million people enrolled in private plans through Federal and State marketplaces.

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…