"We have to work together to find a way to stop this top-heavy, top-down, centralized punitive activity that is going on at the Food and Drug Administration."
"CBO, however, projects that the real cost of the coverage expansions will be $229 billion in 2020 and $245 billion in 2021."
"The real threat to job creation is the threat of repealing this law and going back to a system that stacks the deck against me."
"American families need help now. They need protection from insurance companies dropping their coverage, they need help in providing health coverage for their college students, and they need help to af..."
"If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to create jobs, why repeal the Affordable Care Act, which will add 400,000 jobs a year for the next 10 years?"
"If the intent of reforming the health care system was indeed to bend the cost curve, then it looks like mission accomplished. Unfortunately, we bent it in the wrong direction."
"CBO's estimate of total spending on coverage expansions in PPACA grew from $938 billion last March to $1.445 trillion."
"Yet, as Mr. Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee last month, he expects the law will cost 800,000 jobs by 2021."
"This is simply not sustainable for my home state, or any other."
"The true cost of Obamacare is worse than what any of us expected--higher premiums, more federal health spending, fewer jobs."
"Medicare also has potentially 10 to 20 percent of its receipts going out in fraud, so maybe there is something to be said for overhead."