Michael Burgess

It is my hope our discussion is substantive and focused on the patients who are prescribed these medications

I am hopeful that the witnesses here today will impart their firsthand experience and knowledge of the supply chain

Improving access to life-saving treatments for consumers is a bipartisan priority.

I appreciate you allowing me this opportunity.

Today, Representative Blunt Rochester, who I believe mentioned this already, she and I will be introducing legislation, the Stop Senior Scams Act, to help prevent fraudsters from targeting seniors with prepaid or gift card scams.

I look forward to working with my good friends on the other side of the aisle, certainly with you, Mr. Chairman, to make sure that we can do something that matters in the weeks and months ahead that makes a big difference.

I heard phrases like 'you can keep the doctor'--'if you like the doctor, you have you can keep him.'

Count me as skeptical that a new one-size-fits-all system will achieve the objectives that its advocates have laid out with such optimism and such hope.

Though I think the Democratic Medicare for All proposal is an extreme one, I would remind the majority that Republicans are, as Mrs. Lesko said, committed to working together to improve the system we currently have.

Well, that wasn't true. It wasn't true then; it is not true now.

It is a frightening bill to read for me.

I just don't think that is something that Americans are going to tolerate.

This Medicare for All bill that we have under consideration in the Speaker's committee... is going to be gargantuan.

With no thought for my personal safety, I attended the Commonwealth Fund's healthcare weekend.

Let's talk just a little bit about global budgeting and what it means.

It is unclear that this new bill is going to solve any of our problems, and it is questionable how it is even going to be paid for.

The extra price tag to the government of a one-size-fits-all healthcare system is north of $30 trillion, with a T, over 10 years.

However, this bill is not bipartisan. This is a very partisan bill.

I think we should do this in a bipartisan fashion, because I think really big issues like this actually need to be done in a bipartisan fashion.

A ridiculous amount of time spent on bureaucracy.

So that was a great example of bipartisan cooperation to correct a major problem that we had with delivery of our healthcare.

There is a new sheriff in town, that is why we are doing the hearing.

I didn't quit my day job to come up here and watch somebody else do healthcare reform.

Most disturbingly to me, I think today's hearing made clear that Medicare for All would put the current Medicare system at risk.

If such cuts become law, the Medicare for All truly would become nothing more than a program that provided minimal care in exchange for astronomically high taxes and much longer wait times.