Sheldon Whitehouse

I very much hope that your testimony and all of the responses and engagement from my colleagues create a platform for some really important bipartisan work.

If we don't rebuild that trusting relationship, Medicare is in deep trouble from a financial and a security standpoint.

The way you're dealing with shared savings you are starving your lead dogs.

I had long wars with the Obama Administration CMS folks about precisely the concerns that you had.

When the Chairman of Finance wants to talk about healthcare reforms, we're all ears.

And it strikes me that trying to move primary care physicians into the general contractor model so that you go through the primary care practice to get to the specialist would provide a much better handle on the over deployment of…

We need predictable and sustainable reimbursement models.

Overall, the U.S. spends 50 percent more of its GDP on healthcare than any other country

You want to feed your lead dogs. You want to encourage that kind of behavior.

I take a very keen interest in ACO wellbeing.

Climate change will affect the global economy and so the financial system that supports it, the financial risks it presents are inconsequence systemwide.

Climate change will affect the global economy and so the financial system that supports it, the financial risks it presents are inconsequence systemwide.

Climate change will affect the global economy and so the financial system that supports it, the financial risks it presents are inconsequence systemwide.

We actually are in a position to put very strong encouragements on China and India and other heavily carbon-intensive polluting countries.

When it's free to pollute, polluters will pollute.

I do extend my sympathies to Florida on what is going on down there in the insurance markets, which seem to be very distressed

We are terrestrial beings, we humans, and we tend to overlook what is going on in the oceans.

We actually are in a position to put very strong encouragements on China and India and other heavily carbon-intensive polluting countries.

When it's free to pollute, polluters will pollute.

I do extend my sympathies to Florida on what is going on down there in the insurance markets, which seem to be very distressed

We actually are in a position to put very strong encouragements on China and India and other heavily carbon-intensive polluting countries.

Thank you. Let me thank so many colleagues for attending. Let me thank the witnesses for a truly, I think, useful and important hearing.

I do extend my sympathies to Florida on what is going on down there in the insurance markets, which seem to be very distressed

When it's free to pollute, polluters will pollute.

I think the high point was Senator Johnson's confidence that we may be able to find some bipartisan action here