Evan Bayh: “these fees would largely be passed through to consumers in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.”

We avoided the worst possible outcome with the downturn.

This is outrageous. How can this possibly happen?

I would like to thank all of our witnesses today for your contributions.

The reason for the study, as I recall, was that many of us understood that there was a potential risk here that probably had to be dealt with.