you have made it very clear in your work that you believe health care is best provided when doctors and patients--not Washington bureaucrats--are in charge of decisions.

I absolutely agree that the number one issue in America today are jobs and putting our people back to work, because that solves a lot of our problems, if you have a job.

We are not going to be able to move and help hold our costs down.

If you like your current [health care] plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that. If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it.

your leadership on health reform issues is particularly important because of your experience as a physician

Chairman Roe, your leadership on health reform is particularly important because of your experience as a physician.

The ACA already is costing jobs in the health broker community because of misguided regulations concerning the medical loss ration requirements.

Higher health care costs put additional pressures on the employers' bottom line and increase the cost of hiring new workers.

I agree with Mr. Pollack. What I would like to see in this country is that all Americans have affordable health insurance coverage, or as close to 100 percent as we can get.

I hope this hearing and my testimony contributes to that understanding as it relates to PPACA's grandfathering and MLR provisions.

I came to Congress to try to do that. Unfortunately, I wasn't included in the discussion of it very much.

The problem with the American health care system, after practicing medicine for over 30 years, was that it cost more and more and more for patients to come and see me, to go to the hospital to get the care they need.