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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

The problem with the health care system in this country is, is it costs too much money. It is too expensive.

the Affordable Care Act was supposed to do that. And what happened was it has actually forced the cost way up.

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?

I think you are going to see a lot more people, Dr. Petzel, come.