Before we close the hearing, I would like to say a few words about a departing staff member.

Before we enacted the ACA 4 years ago, America's healthcare system was dysfunctional and deadly.

Now, if during the year John and Mary both have done good work and they get a pay increase, let's say they get $5,000 increase this year because the economy is recovering, so now they are making, not $70,000 together but $80,000, how does…

So anybody whose pay goes up this year and is getting subsidies will have a deduction or have a reduction in the subsidy at the end of the year?

I look forward to the day when Republicans do an about-face to accept their share of the responsibility.

Well, we ought to do better by our Medicare beneficiaries. They deserve better than being in this back and forth rigmarole of terminology.

They are making a bid based on the law as it presently is and the cuts that are being phased in over a period of time, slowed down by the Administration; they are making bids on that basis, and they say they can make it?

May I ask unanimous consent to enter in the record a GAO study entitled 'Medicare Advantage Specialty Needs Plans Are More Profitable on Average Than Plans Available to All Beneficiaries,' an article from the paper which says, 'Despite…

I want to thank you for holding this hearing.

Now, what I am hearing from the three of you is give us more money.

The Ryan budget uses the savings from the Affordable Care Act, and you can parse it any way you want, but you voted for it.