"With the dramatic rise in volume and value of contracts, we must enhance our management and oversight capacity so we are maximizing return for the taxpayer."
"We cannot put a price on a child's life; however, we can recognize that it is far more cost effective to proactively treat the symptoms of appendicitis rather than treat the results of a burst appendi..."
"To begin with, in terms of health care costs you outlined the President's goals."
"The human face of health care reform is real; it is 46 million Americans and rising without any health insurance."
"It is the fact that a child with appendicitis is five times more likely to die without health insurance, than if he or she was covered."
"I urge you to come up with a number that reminds the American people of what that would be if we in fact do not have health care reform."
"I think the other way that the two go together is just in a practical sense, that at a time when you are thinking about doing an expansion of care to the millions of Americans that are not covered now..."
"But Dr. Romer, you don't have any study that says, hey, that is the one variable that somehow would get our handles around the cost of rising health care?"
"I had an experience locally, here at the Lorton Prisonsite that was transferred to Fairfax County."
"If you could get it back to the committee for the record, that would be very helpful because we need to look at the scope of the problem."
"It sounds to me like this may be one of those areas that needs to be clarified in the law."