"But the way we have been doing it hasn't been working. These kids are getting fatter and fatter."
"If it was working, I would say, fine, Mr. Felton, but it doesn't seem to be working for these kids."
"I just think it is unfair if we think that kids in certain urban districts are going to have the same kind of food that their parents are going to send to school with them."
"Miami, Florida, $15,000 for the same package of Medicare services that is $7,000 in the Twin Cities."
"I want to save money here and I see this as saving money in health care costs and saving money in how we buy, purchase food."
"I just do not think this is the way we want to go. I do not think you do either in terms of having individual patients trying to negotiate rates."
"$50 billion--$50 billion--every 4 years that we can save."
"Yet, they have the highest quality and lowest cost of health care around."
"Medicare has systematically been underpaying for services."
"we cannot neglect this issue of making sure, as we look at reform, that these are offered in the most efficient way."
"we have to make it as efficient as possible."