Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank my colleagues.

If the United States were to follow the price control model, what would happen to patients' access to innovative treatments here in America as well as overseas?

our Nation will mark the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, better known to most as Obamacare.

On average, how many Canadian patients on a waiting list die each year? Do you know?

It is a pretty fertile ground to market in.

Well, one would believe the American people prefer their system because they know consciously they pay more.

We over prescribe grossly pharmaceuticals in the United States.

I think today's hearing represents an important admission that Obamacare is not working, that such an admission takes place within the very committee that the Act was written and is a huge step, and I commend the committee for taking it.

outraged by that behavior.

my only wish is that we had been on the Senate floor debating reforms within the system so we could fulfill and keep the promises we made to our veterans who are currently in that system. I yield back the remainder of our time. The…

I come to the floor as the ranking member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee as we consider S. 1982, the Sanders bill. I have been down to the floor several times, and I will not take up a lot of the Senate's valuable time right now. But I…

as Paul Harvey used to say on the radio: Now the rest of the story. We just heard a very glamorous description of bipartisanship and benefits that have been not provided equitably to veterans. What I would like to do is try and focus on…