Rob Portman actually said...

"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..."

"And, again, just to be clear, as compared to some of the testimony we heard earlier, there was information."

"HHS had authority and sole authority to be able to stop these disbursements when it became clear that the CO-OPs were not likely to be financially viable."

"So to say that there is and was assurance objective standard for deciding when underperformance should trigger an enhanced oversight plan, that is not what we learned."