Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I am concerned that if we move to a public health plan, a government-run health plan, I should say, that we may lose some of those innovative ideas.

Do you believe that people should be able to keep their current insurance policy that they have, if they choose to keep that insurance policy as a part of a reform, yes or no?

Do you believe that a key principle for health reform is that people shouldn't lose what they already have?

What about the people that have an insurance program that they already have, that they want to stay with; do you believe that that's a reform--that that should be included in any reform?

Thank you for hanging around while we had to go vote, and appreciate your presence here today.

His view is that a majority of the claims will be denied at the early stages, and then the ALJ will later give a favorable decision.

I think most American people look at IRS and Social Security, and it is a long history of problem after problem after problem.

When it comes to the hearing, and I am from Washington State, and I think our wait time is about a year and a half, 507-plus days or so.

It's urgent that we do something now.

I do, too. But the timing----