Joe Barton

It is a very important position that you four people hold.

This administration, who talks all the time about all-of-the-above policy, is in effect in their greenhouse gas rules going to prohibit even the option of building a new coal-powered plant in the future.

What shocks me is that Mr. Chao, our witness, who is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of Information and Services for Medicare and Medicaid, who has been identified numerous times as the chief person…

I am shutting it down, I am shutting it down.

I have a bill that hasn't had a hearing yet, and hopefully this subcommittee will have a legislative hearing on it, that doesn't repeal, and it doesn't delay, but it does make the Affordable Care Act voluntary the first year.

In my State of Texas, according to figures provided to me by Dr. Burgess, who is a very good researcher, less than 3,000 people signed up for the Affordable Care Act.

If all the Democrats need to move away from the Affordable Care Act is a Republican alternative, I believe we can accomplish that in fairly short order.

Most of what we now call the Affordable Care Act came through this committee.

These increases are a heavy hardship on my constituents, on all of our constituents, Republicans or Democrats.

If you already have insurance you like, you can keep it.

I've introduced H.R. 3348, which says let's make this system voluntary for the first year, since we're having so many problems, and let the American people decide.

Will you commit to the committee and to the American people that, one, you do want to protect their privacy; and, two, you will take this out, fix it, make sure that it doesn't have bearing on people that try to apply through the Web site?

Ultimately the American people will decide.

Well, Madam Secretary, while you're from Kansas, we're not in Kansas anymore.

So when was the President specifically informed of the regulation change?

If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. Period.

As I mentioned earlier, the new benefit in its implementation are hardly perfect, but rather than trying to scare and confuse seniors, I would hope that we could work together as we go through the implementation phase to find out what is…

Well, in my opinion, if we have a system that almost no one can successfully navigate, that we have to go to the paper system of this gentleman's company down here, that is a system that has failed.

How in the world can this be HIPAA compliant when HIPAA is designed to protect the patient's privacy?

This lie is way beyond an awful computer program. This lie affects the health and well-being of every American.

I am damn angry that I and 700,000 Texans I represent have been misled, misled, and misled.

I don't think it should be.

You are telling every American if you sign up for this, or even attempt to, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Like all of Obamacare, what it appears on the surface is not what it is.

Last weekend I finally got to go home to Texas after the government shutdown.