David Roe

I want to work with you on the Pell Grant program, where we invest that money more wisely.

I think that is a travesty in this country. And we should concentrate on those 1,400 schools where those children are being failed today.

I share your enthusiasm for education.

What studies are you citing?

It is a different standard.

It is the worst piece of the entire health care bill, and it is going to drastically affect our senior citizens in a negative way.

I have a bill out there that I am the primary sponsor of, and Mr. Hudson is a co-sponsor of this bill, to repeal the IPAB.

They started a prevention program about six years ago where if you were an obese, diabetic, smoking, hypertensive train wreck waiting to happen, you could do that, but you were going to be an expensive train wreck and it was going to cost…

I was out at a VA jogging many years ago when this veteran stopped me and he said, Doc, he said, do you know what the problem with this place is?

We have to stop this cost shifting that is going on right now, currently.

Thirty-one years I have practiced medicine, took care of some of the sickest people in the world. I never took a Tums, and six months after getting to Congress, I take a Prilosec every day, to let you know how it is.

But this law is going to become such a burden to these businesses.

I think we have to have a time, since I don't believe the Federal Government is going to be prepared for this come January 1, 2014.

North Carolina has missed a major opportunity when it failed to expand Medicaid, a portion of the Affordable Care Act.

Well, Dr. Huff, they are all good Republicans.

Any steps that can be taken by the Committee to mitigate the burdens employers are facing is greatly appreciated.

As an OB/GYN doctor, I have delivered almost 5,000 babies, and I did find out that when you run for Congress, delivering your own voters worked out pretty well for me.

I live in rural East Tennessee, in Appalachia, and I have seen many, many people who don't have health insurance.

I share the vision and goal of providing health insurance coverage for everybody in this country.

Our government shouldn't be penalizing businesses who want to expand, they should be encouraging it.

This flawed law is simply not in the best interest of workers, employers, and families.

Again, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, thank you for having this hearing today which didn't clear the smoke out the room maybe, but helped a little bit and I think we need to continue to do this because I definitely, Dr. Petzel, want to see…

Want to bet a steak dinner on that?

Let us call it what it is and it is a tax if you don't buy it.

If the tax credit, the credit that you will get to buy insurance on the exchange, if a veteran chooses to go to the VA for his or her family, those family members can get that tax credit.