Joe Pitts

I just talked to a restaurateur today... my business is gone.

To say that that is nuanced is ridiculous.

Will the MLR rule hinder Plans' ability to stop fraud before it happens and if Plans are forced to pay more fraudulent payments, will premiums increase?

On the issue of fraud, Ms. Reichel, a '60 Minutes' episode last year pegged the amount of fraud and abuse in the Medicare program at more than $60 billion a year.

It is essential that everyone have coverage.

I will tell you, sir, that we have clients who are at the end of their rope.

The Affordable Care Act, in my opinion, levies unreasonable demands on employers, manufacturers, doctors, and not only discourages hiring but encourages employers to drop their employee health insurance.

Unfortunately, we have got to work around the President's schedule, and I regret that.

The Affordable Care Act really ought to come with a boxed FDA warning that says, Warning: The Affordable Care Act, when used as directed, may be harmful to your health.

You just cannot be anti-employer and claim to be pro jobs.

The fact that so many Americans have had to be exempted from the law's protections under waivers, or risk losing their current coverage, should be alarming to every Member of Congress.

If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.

If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it.

If you like what you have, you can keep it, was the promise that President Obama repeatedly made on the campaign trail.

Congress overwhelmingly resolved to support Yucca development 306-117.

In point of fact, in 1982 when the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was enacted, there was a Republican President, a Republican Senate and Democrats firmed controlled the House.

Insurance companies would be empowered to avoid caring for the sick people who cut into their profit margin.

Reduced insurance premiums for some people are little consolation for the consumers who, under H.R. 371, would be left without coverage.

This will harm the sick, the elderly, and the disabled--all of whom already pay high costs for their medical care.

I hope that today's hearing will be a useful one for my colleagues.

Do the regulations of guarantee issue and community rating penalize people that have been responsible and purchased insurance before they were sick?

This proposal was a bad idea on its own terms as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. It is disastrous.

Georgia recently enacted a law to allow the purchase of health coverage across state lines.

If you would continue, Dr. Parente, would the optimum policy goal be to have a system where consumers have more choice?

I think that this replace plan is not one that is good for American consumers