"Everyone in this town loves to blame all the problems of the world on the previous administration."
"I would submit to you that perhaps we do need to amend this sacred document to allow clinics more time to analyze what you are going to put forward."
"Doctors should be in the driver's seat with ACOs. If they are going to really deliver on the promise--as a patient, I want my doctor to be in charge."
"We are trying to figure out what to do with the sustainable growth rate formula."
"It is an extremely important issue, the FDA guidance documents that are under development by the agency and how the streamlining process is going to impact those."
"But just to set the record straight, everyone in this town loves to blame all the problems of the world on the previous administration."
"But, just to be clear, we have a hard deadline, do we not, in the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act of January 1, 2012?"
"You told Ms. Blackburn that no more statutory or legislative interference was necessary, but I would submit to you that perhaps we do need to amend this sacred document to allow clinics more time to a..."
"a central planner, who may be a very benevolent central planner, but a central planner who is pushing data points around on a big spreadsheet in a far-off Washington, D.C."
"ACOs, while perhaps not my individual favorite, may have been a bipartisan approach to bringing down the cost of delivering health care in this country."
"I don't know how many times we are going to hear over and over about the same thing."
"The Affordable Care Act was the transformational law that brought protection to patients across the United States' healthcare system."