Michael Burgess

President Obama told seniors he would use the money from Medicare to fund the Affordable Care Act, and at the same time improve Medicare for beneficiaries.

The President sold the Affordable Care Act on a foundation of false promises.

The President, however, decided to take money away from a working program in order to fund one that is dysfunctional.

Seeing no other speakers on my side, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I really don't want to see us not resolve this problem.

We need your feedback so that we can help you keep up with the threat as it emerges.

I understand how this threat has changed, how the globalization of our economy has in fact affected your ability to do your work within our shores.

As a doctor, such immorality of knowingly sentencing a patient to death by either denying them treatment or selling them an adulterated product, that is an absolutely chilling proposition.

American consumers cannot purchase prescription drugs with the certainty that the products are safe and effective.

The market for prescription drugs has been the catalyst for a continuing series of frauds against American manufacturers and has provided cover for counterfeit drugs.

I would offer for those limited comparisons between ACA and the Medicare Modernization Act from 10 years ago.

We need, the committee needs that.

And it seems to me it would be contrary to the policy you are proposing in the Part D proposed rule.

I would ask you to submit that for the record, and how do you anticipate how the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services intervention in these negotiations to improve the program.

So in my mind, there is some confusion as to why, after 10 years, your agency felt that it must now reinterpret the noninterference clause.

I mean it is critical to our discussion.

Not only has Part D come in at 45 percent under budget, the Congressional Budget Office has reduced its 10-year projections for Part D by over $100 billion for each of the last 3 years.

With the health and safety of the American public at risk, we can't leave the job only half done by not adequately funding FDA to fully implement this important law.

It appears to a lot of us that you are going to be needing and sending taxpayer dollars in order to handle this problem of the risk corridors.

I think our providers are the ones who are truly at risk from your mismanagement of this problem.

This thing is a disaster, and the providers are going to be the ones who take it on the chin.

If I were the Secretary, I would have fired you, and that would have happened in October.

I simply do not understand why no one has been held accountable for an error that egregious.

I appreciate the time that you devote to our oversight efforts.

You need to be prepared to work with this committee to mitigate the damage that is going to be visited on America's health care system and the American people.