However, I think a focus on reducing cost is actually much harder than arguing about which of the tactics to adopt.

the cost shifting of covering health care for the uninsured.

our friend from Long Island, Mrs. McCarthy, who practiced nursing before joining us here in the House, is recognized for 5 minutes.

Thank you, Dr. Roe, for bringing your experience and perspective to the committee.

Our job is a huge one, and it is to convert a dysfunctional relationship between cost and coverage into a functional and positive one.

But it is also--I mean, we have to do something structurally to the market for the small firm and to the system.

I think it is one of the reasons why the gentleman introduced his legislation in the last Congress.

I am not sure that I embrace an individual mandate. I certainly don't embrace it without a very sufficient subsidy to pay for it.

I think we all agreed with that. Talked about the proposition that covering everyone will help reduce costs for everyone, which I think just about everybody agreed with.

But if I may, I think it is a dilemma for her because your proposal is to pass a law saying she has to buy health coverage the way she has to buy auto insurance. How is she going to pay for it?

There are 30 million people who live in a family that is headed by someone--the 30 million uninsured people living in a family headed by someone who is working but uninsured, 30 million out of the 47 million.