"The notion that if we can improve the coordination of care, patient safety, disease management, and prevention efforts, we can save money for the entire system."
"Today is an important examination of the ways in which health information technologies can benefit patients, doctors, and the health care system as a whole."
"Far from inhibiting the growth of mobile health applications, the Administration has taken unprecedented steps to open up federal data to app developers and coders."
"the expansions are indeed sustainable, and in coming decades--in this decade, they actually modestly reduce the deficit; in the subsequent decade, they significantly reduce the deficit."
"The issue is not whether we reduce the deficit, but how we do so. And that conversation must include a discussion about revenues."
"The reality exists that an aging population means more people will rely on Medicare and millions of the uninsured will now have access to healthcare through Medicaid because of the Affordable Care Act..."
"What Republicans want to do when they talk about painful cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility is to cut the structural foundation of our safety net programs."
"Healthcare reform was entitlement reform. The ACA decreases the deficit and promotes efficiency and quality."
"My colleague asked if we know of any public health care system that improved outcomes and controlled costs, and I will certainly give you one, and that is Medicare."
"Requiring that insurance companies provide coverage to all who apply represents a big change to these companies' business models, isn't that correct?"
"The ACA contains significant premium subsidies and responsibility requirements for individuals and employers."