John Thune actually said...

I think, as I said, outside of Washington you hear these concerns where people are experiencing higher premiums, higher deductibles, cancele...

In fact, our colleague, Senator Nelson, just introduced a bipartisan bill to improve Medicare's fraud prevention.

It seems to me that an insurer may actually have a perverse incentive to get an MLR rate that is acceptable, but may drive costs later.

I just cannot figure out how we justify these higher rates by suggesting that we have more people insured.