"Did you communicate to the Fire Department?"
"Do you agree that when the IRS grants a group tax-exempt status, now, that means that there is an advantage of one group as compared to another group in how they are taxed?"
"Can they save significant tax advantage to a group, whether they are left, right, north, south, doesn't matter, a significant tax advantage to that group, and its operations are being implicitly subsi..."
"Health care reform is already moving Medicare, I think, in a new direction."
"This year's June MedPAC, Director Miller, reaffirmed--in my mind, anyway--that we don't have to scrap the current system in order to save Medicare."
"the life of Medicare has been extended about eight years because of the ACA"
"The Affordable Care Act is already hard at work actually testing the new payment system and the delivery system."
"if it doesn't provide adequate financial assistance for lower income beneficiaries, benefit redesign puts these beneficiaries in a very, very vulnerable financial situation"
"Now here is the real headache. Let me tell you what the real headache is. You are sitting over there and talking about taxpayers and liability when you just voted on $600 billion, $600 billion in tax ..."
"Instead of sour grapes and instead of burying our heads in the sand, we said we only have one country here."
"New Jersey is in a unique position because my state is an all-urban state with no rural or critical access hospitals."