"I do not understand why CMS is allowing this. Why put a test in place if you are not going to follow it?"
"This does not make sense. It does not give a true picture of the CO-OPs."
"Thank you. I would like to thank today's witnesses for their testimony today."
"And, clearly, we appreciate the witnesses being here today. Usually witnesses come because there is a problem, especially when it deals with treatments for patients in real life."
"Our constituents are seeing firsthand the difficulties caused by overregulation and bureaucracy."
"We can do better. We must do better. We will do better."
"Thank you, Chairman Coats, for convening a hearing on such an important topic."
"I have been a supporter of that nearly from the beginning because it is a six-year bill with three years paid for."
"Clearly, our goal is to save Medicare for the long term."
"I think we need a better--one thing, this is a bipartisan issue."
"This sounds like a good place for Congress to start establishing site-neutral payment."