"Many members have supported using the OCO funding, the Overseas Contingency Operation funding, to offset the cost of repealing the SGR."
"I think it is a red herring."
"I think the answer is yes, so let us just go to the second, whether you believe that if the SGR mechanism is eliminated, we will still need to retain the fee schedule."
"I think we have to be very honest with the physician community."
"I think we have to be very careful that when we talk about pay-fors."
"I have always suggested the overseas contingency operation fund, or the PEACE dividend, as it is called, for the pay-for."
"I believe this bill is good health policy."
"Part of the reason is personal because my mother passed not long after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer."
"Thanks in large part to NIH research, Americans are living longer, living healthier and suffering less from morbidity and mortality of countless diseases when compared to the past."
"As we continue to work our way out of the recession towards a thriving economy that offers economic opportunities to all Americans, we must out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the worl..."
"Not only has the general health of the Nation improved, but these gains have added an estimated $3.2 trillion annually to the U.S. economy since 1970."