Bob Casey

Coal miners and their families do not need to spend any additional time--in this case month after month--with the fear and the uncertainty of not having health care or the pensions that they earned.

I am concerned, however, that allies of ours like those in the EU may amend their past position on market economy status.

It is important that every child has access to high-quality health coverage.

If confirmed, I will work to ensure that CMS appropriately implements the statutes within its purview.

If States have an idea--better coverage, lower costs--God bless them, we are all for it, but we cannot use 1332 or any other provision for the States to do worse.

I want to see us get beyond what has come to be known as 'repeal and run.'

The President could have taken steps to create more stability on a bipartisan basis, but instead issued an executive order.

It means not discriminating against those with a preexisting condition no matter what.

It is essential that they be implemented as intended by the Congress.

Privatizing Medicare is the wrong direction in my view.

We'll do a better job on our end.

Your stories are persuasive, numbers once and awhile can help you persuade, your stories are persuasive.

Chapter 1 is stopping the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and that's a fight we're in right now.

I want to say at the outset is, both Alyce and Diane, I'm using your first names

We are here to serve you.

I am deeply grateful that you came here today to make sure that your voices are heard anyway.

Will you commit to ensure that Rowan and every other person in the country who has a disability... will they have that same coverage?

That is what happens. So you push it back to the States and hope it works out.

To block-grant Medicaid, okay?

We would be bankrupt or my son would go without the therapies he sincerely needs.

A cut of a trillion dollars, a combined cut of a trillion dollars that would adversely impact the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Medicaid program, is totally unacceptable, I think, to most Americans, Democrat, Republican, or…

Well, I hope you maintain that, because I think that is going to be critically important.

Would you agree with me, first of all, that we should get that number down, the number of uninsured children?

That means we are at a 95-percent insured rate across the country for children.

I think if we are doing the right thing, not only as a government, but as a society, if we are really about the business of justice and if we are really about the business of growing the economy, we should invest a lot and spend a lot of…