Rob Portman actually said...

"I just think it is totally inappropriate for you all to say, as Mr. Slavitt just did, they did the best job they could with the information they had, and that somehow, this is just a problem with star..."

"Let me tell you what the New York CO-OP situation is, because you question our numbers or you have not looked at the numbers yourselves. This is how we got into that mess. It vastly overshot its enrol..."

"We are talking about $1.2 billion of taxpayer money that is going to be lost."

"The experts tell us that, if anything, the year-end claims numbers are likely to turn out even worse than they are now, that it is not going down, it is going up."