So as a committee, can we look forward to you working with us to explore and examine ways to increase the United States' competitiveness in the nuclear trade?

The federal government has proven itself to be an absolutely unreliable fiscal partner when it comes to health care.

Governors are scared to death about what is going to happen by taking on this obligation.

If we could even bend the cost curve just a little bit with preventive care, that ounce of prevention, that is a hell of a pound of cure.

Last month, it was learned that the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has been calling executives from private groups asking them to fund the Affordable Care Act by donating money to a private organization called…

I always use the example of Muleshoe, Texas, literally a one-stoplight town with one GP, and it is hard for him to be an ACO.

We are goal-directed individuals as physicians. We always go to work to do our best job.

Yes, in many ways, if the SGR could not be reformed, if we didn't have the favorable CBO score winds at our back, it has always seemed to me that Medicare Advantage may offer a way forward on whatever happens with SGR down the road.

It should be their choice when they go into that system.

Mr. Chairman, I shouldn't do this, but I actually want to recognize Dr. John O'Shea, who is here in the audience.

I want you to have the data and I want you to have access.

And just as a practical matter, you think that is something that should be included in whatever follows on from SGR?