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Rob Portman

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Rob Portman is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio, a position he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Portman previously represented Ohio's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005. He also served as the U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on trade policy and international negotiations.

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Mar 9, 2016

This was the fault of HHS, the way the program was structured.

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Mar 9, 2016

Certainly 300 percent was not enough.

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Mar 9, 2016

Deloitte will not provide an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the proposed changes to each CO-OP's business plan.

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Mar 9, 2016

shifting the blame to the States is not where the appropriate accountability ought to be here.

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Mar 9, 2016

If you are saying everything was done right, we did the analysis just as we did with the initial loans, it is just not accurate.

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Mar 9, 2016

I will say some of what you have just said confuses me, at least as to the period 2014 and 2015.

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Mar 9, 2016

Well, $30 million of taxpayer money. It is the same people. These are taxpayers who have found themselves losing their health insurance and now potentially facing claims from providers because their health insurance company that was a…

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Mar 9, 2016

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.

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Mar 9, 2016

Who did do the analysis when additional taxpayer dollars were given to New York?

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Mar 9, 2016

I think it also was to get enrollment numbers up under Obamacare, which was part of the desire by the White House at the time, and continues to be.

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Mar 9, 2016

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

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