"Chairman Roe, your leadership on health reform is particularly important because of your experience as a physician."
"I hope this hearing and my testimony contributes to that understanding as it relates to PPACA's grandfathering and MLR provisions."
"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 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."
"I either make no profit or I am $7,000 short. What do I do, Dr. Roe?"
"We are not going to be able to move and help hold our costs down."
"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..."
"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."
"Higher health care costs put additional pressures on the employers' bottom line and increase the cost of hiring new workers."
"I would like to have that so the Committee would know through this error that was made how much the taxpayers were on the hook for, plus the risk that the patients had."
"you wouldn't, you would be spending that money on veterans, on their health care."