"Well, let me ask you this. Has Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana had to cut back on any of its antifraud activities as a result of the MLR requirements?"
"The NAIC, which is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, they supported this compromise."
"I mean, I am just trying to point out that the NAIC, which represents the Nation's insurance commissioners, agrees with the current MLR calculation with respect to fraud."
"Has Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana had to cut back on any of its antifraud activities as a result of the MLR requirements?"
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"There has been a significant movement over the past decade towards the establishment of multi-stakeholder consensus processes for health care quality and performance measurement."
"I support Harold's notion of having some bottom-up approaches that we would test."
"Ultimately, we want to be in a place where physicians find it is in their own interest to want to move into a new organizational structure."
"I was very encouraged by Chairman Upton's remarks yesterday, that it is his goal to put a bill on the House Floor before the August recess."
"We need to put pressure on the fee-for-service reimbursements."
"I think we should be doing robust experimentation now."