Tim Murphy

We can't afford to engage in any of that on these lifesaving issues.

I want to know. You're in charge. You've handled loans of this size and now you're saying it's everybody else's fault but you.

I really want you to stop throwing everybody else under the bus. I hear you throwing all your staff under the bus. I want to know. You're in charge.

What do we go back and tell our constituents who have to work hard with so many people in this country in poverty?

This is an incredible organization you work for. No one in the Federal Government is responsible for half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money.

Who was it that made the decision that this act passed into law by the Federal Government was going to not be adhered to? Who made that decision?

So you are saying you had oversight but you were not aware of a memo saying this company didn't have the money to keep going?

For me and my constituents, the issue is not a political football that we should toss around in Washington. This is real and it is a matter of life and death.

I certainly encourage all members of this and other committees in Congress to spend some time touring offices and factories and farms.

I tend to think that is an insult to job makers and workers, too, but thank you very much.

Let us not forget Americans are saying, grow more jobs to grow more taxpayers, not finding ways of increasing taxes.

This bill leads to 1.2 million jobs annually.

Instead of sending $129 billion a year to OPEC for foreign aid to buy their oil, let us drill and use our own.

Let us keep in mind that one way to balance America's budget, one very important way to deal with America's debt is to grow jobs.

I get real tired of this Republican-Democrat battle. I just want to talk about patients here.

And I am hoping that one of the outcomes of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, is that we hear from cases throughout the country.

I hope that that information is getting to her.

I think the more I hear, the more it boggles the mind and breaks the heart when we hear of what happens to seniors.

We are ready and able to reimburse the trust fund, but we need your help to clear the bureaucracy out of the way and make a sensible MSP system that will actually work.

Are you aware of some I referenced in my opening statement here that Rand Corporation just completed a study that found if you only looked at settlements greater than $5,000 instead of every single settlement, your collections would fall…

I am frustrated here because we are trying to get information on something I am not sure you collect the very data that we are trying to find out.

The current MSP system, which we are investigating today, discourages and even prevents companies from settling claims involving Medicare beneficiaries.

Hundreds of millions of dollars that should be repaid to the Medicare Trust Fund are sitting in lawyers' accounts.

We want to preserve Medicare for seniors. It is important. It is essential. But it is a mess.

Only in Washington can someone who wants to send money back to the Federal Government be ignored.