What is hard to understand is how the administration wants to continue to be anti-employer and, at the same time, be pro-jobs.

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.

But, just to be clear, we have a hard deadline, do we not, in the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act of January 1, 2012?

We are trying to figure out what to do with the sustainable growth rate formula.

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.

Everyone in this town loves to blame all the problems of the world on the previous administration.

Texas was the only State singled for that. In the Wall Street Journal article that I will submit for the record, they call it 'pure political revenge, an effort intimidate other States from joining Texas in lawsuits.'

this was the result of an error that escaped the EPA's notice for 18 years.

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 analyze what you are going to put…

But just to set the record straight, everyone in this town loves to blame all the problems of the world on the previous administration.

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.