In the Republican alternative to Obamacare, we proposed $25 billion over 10 years to aid Americans suffering from preexisting conditions.

Obamacare, unfortunately, provided only $5 billion in its Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan.

At the time of the health care law's passage, Republicans argued that the funding level was too low and would not cover all of those it was meant to help.

Although we still hope for a full repeal of the health care law and replace it with other reforms, we have reached out to President Obama and asked him to work with us to help those most in need get coverage and care.

That is something we should do and that should be a higher priority perhaps than subsidizing everyone's insurance all the way up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level.

Last week, the Health Subcommittee investigated how the new health care law, ObamaCare, is impacting job growth and worker opportunities across the country. The results are not good. The recovery continues to be well below what we need to…

Congress has acted, and in fact, when we had the Medical Devices User Fee Act in the last Congress, we specifically rejected in that bill a moratorium on FDA's use of its authority over medical devices that happened to be implemented as…

Therefore, this hearing is an appropriate place to examine the extent to which the FDA and other federal agencies should be involved in regulation of health information technologies.

However, with the proliferation of these technologies have come concerns about how their use may negatively impact patients.

I believe, and I think all of our witnesses today will agree with me, that if a technology developer is going to make health-based claims, then there must be a role for FDA to ensure it is safe and effective.

Now I am afraid that my Republican friends are going to spend this day making up false stories about how the Affordable Care Act and FDA regulation is stifling innovation--how our smartphones are going to be taxed and Apple's manufacturing…

So don't be scared. Look at the law, look at the reality, and don't listen to the political rhetoric which this week has been orchestrated very carefully by my Republican colleagues.

Electronic Health Records hold great promise for the delivery of care given and quality of care received in this country.

This has been a very interesting hearing, very important issue, very informative.

I think it is up to Congress to decide what FDA's role should be.

We must consider reforms that address the structure of this very critical entitlement program.

I think there are a lot of untreated and undertreated people with that condition that are heading into their Medicare years quite soon.

That is what this budget that is coming out tomorrow does. It honors the promise we made to people at or near retirement.

Let me be clear: the status quo spells doom for every American who relies on Medicare or Medicaid for their health care.

I mean, what else are they going to have? They are not going to have anything else.

We owe them. That is what the American dream has been about.

Our debt does matter, despite what the President disclosed to us last week.

The only question is, how long will America and Americans tolerate staring at these problems without fixing them for future generations?

Doing nothing is not an option. Doing nothing is unfair, particularly to those who can't afford any other options.

The status quo spells doom for every American who relies on Medicare or Medicaid for their health care.