Claire McCaskill

We have got to keep investing in NIH. It is important in St. Louis for Washington University, but it is important in the whole country.

And why is it so expensive?

Drugs are not part of the Accountable Care Organizations?

The quality of life is really important, and it is really, if we look at it as a quality of care issue, you know, rather than just a cost issue or a pulling the plug issue.

It is frustrating, because I spent a lot of time trying to correct information that was out in the public domain about what was and was not in the Affordable Care Act.

Why is it extraordinarily expensive?

I mean, that is just the medicine?

That does not make sense to me. If they have made the determination that this is appropriate, then it sounds to me that that is gobbledygook that would delay it for a year and a half before you would actually get it.

One of the biggest health threats in the Midwest right now is heroin, and that is a direct consequence of opioids being prescribed.

Do we not have a critical shortage of gerontologists?

Excuse me, can you all hear in the back? You need to get it right----

If we kind of blurred the lines between A, B, and D and had this be a more holistic program...

I do not support that proposal and have fought hard against it during my time in the Senate.

I think now it is time for us to look at how we can strengthen the program and make sure we preserve the program for the next 50 years.

Well, to whatever extent you can share with the Committee the analysis of contract manufacturing in Canada versus the United States and what the differentials are----

Today I think we are in agreement that the current U.S. tax system is broken and needs reform.

Today's hearing is the culmination of that hard work.

It is not the subject matter of this hearing, but I got distracted when I saw that.

I think it would be important for us to get input about this.

We should not be demonizing businesses and we should be looking at these structural problems we have.

Do you understand how that infuriates Americans?

Something has to happen in financial services as well.

I do not think most Americans realize that you are the largest fully owned American beer company.

What would be helpful to us is to see what the differentials are on contract manufacturing in the United States and other places.

But the record also shows that when deciding where to locate the headquarters of the combined firm, tax considerations ruled out the United States.