Michael Burgess

God love them for coming out of the woodwork to get the kind of healthcare that they are eligible for.

At 3 1/2 years later it is pretty obvious this thing was never ready for prime time, was not supposed to get signed into law.

I hope the President was apprised of that before he made these statements, because clearly his statement wasn't operational.

Again, his appearance here will be important.

Will you commit to making Mr. Zients available to our subcommittee for our questions?

Many of us on the Subcommittee of Oversight Investigations in Energy and Commerce were not as comforted as you by that selection.

I just came to my attention that on CNN's Web site, that the site was hacked just last week.

At this point, I'm not even sure who is in charge of this program because no one knows what is going on.

The failures of the healthcare.gov Web site are just the beginning of the dysfunction that is to come as the implementation of President's signature law moves forward into 2014.

The Affordable Care Act is quickly becoming the poster child for the failure of big government. It's a stunning train wreck that is coming down the tracks toward us.

Nobody believes this thing is going to get fixed when we keep getting answers like this.

We can't undo the past, but certainly they can make the argument they were having a hearing a month late, but the reality is that for the prescription drug program, the benefit is 40 years late, and the seniors who signed up for Medicare…

I'm not trying to be harsh here, but you are continuing to bill the taxpayers for the fact that your code did not work or your product did not work as advertised, regardless of whose fault it was.

I just have to say, here we are 3 weeks into the open enrollment period, and I can't think that anyone on this panel this morning would think that that is acceptable that this system would still work so poorly regardless of the State…

There is no federal requirement for background checks or criminal record checks in the Navigator Program.

I think it is important to recognize that for many, many years employers have been struggling with the ever-increasing costs of healthcare and of health insurance, double-digit increases year after year.

The cost and the difficulty of doing criminal background checks, yes, we were concerned about that.

We want to get as many--we had a number of factors.

Consumers will be able to go online, they will be able to get a determination of what tax subsidies they are eligible for, they will be able to look at the plans that are available where they live, they will be able to see the premium net…

I am confident the taxpayer would like to have their $1.2 million back if the grant application was approved based on information which you said would make it ineligible for approval.

Seven other times the President has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant...

It has never been popular, it has never enjoyed popular support, it is becoming increasingly clear how dangerous this law is to people's health and healthcare.

You know, we get criticized on this side of the dais because of attempts to reign in the Affordable Care Act.

I appreciate the recognition, and here we are a dozen days from the start date of October 1.

The President's health care law continues to create more chaos, more uncertainty for Americans.