The Affordable Care Act is damaging for economic growth, and it was enacted at a time when we had very poor growth in the United States to begin with.

It has made things worse, not better.

I have to tell you that the studies I have seen on outcomes for Medicaid are really no better.

It strikes me as fundamentally wrong that the States have to ask the Federal Government how they can spend their money.

Unfortunately, I think people are becoming desensitized to the rhetoric upon which Obamacare was sold to the American people.

I still remember that Senator Schumer from New York, after the election, gave a speech at the National Press Club.

I personally am of the view that unless we have an adequate fee-shifting mechanism in the legislation, it is not worth doing.

Well, that remains a work in progress here on this Committee and we are working closely with the Chairman and the Ranking Member and Senator Schumer, in particular, but really all Members of the Committee, to try to address that.

Thank you. I was struck--and this was something Mr. Sauer said about the post-grant review process, but a case in particular where a hedge fund shorted that company's stock before filing a claim.

We need to recognize there are certainly legitimate rights that should be litigated and decided in court, but on the other hand, there is also legal extortion.

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