It is the responsibility of the IRS to determine which groups are choosing the correct exempt status and which are trying to manipulate the system.

You are taxing somebody to get more revenue into the system.

So then you are going to put it all on the richer people, that is the idea.

Fifty percent of the Medicare beneficiaries in this country have annual incomes at or below $22,500.

We are long overdue on fixing the physician payment system and I sincerely hope we can work in a bipartisan way to do it.

The notion that beneficiaries have to have more skin in the game to encourage smart healthcare shopping is ridiculous.

we are going to call it a premium increase, but it is a tax. It is a tax on the seniors that we are putting on here.

Today, as Ranking Member McDermott said, half of all people with Medicare, 25 million older adults and people with disabilities, are living on annual incomes of $22,500 or less and spending about 15 percent of their household income on…

High earners pay more in payroll taxes, as Mr. McDermott pointed out, and income taxes throughout their work lives.

There was a time in the Congress when the procedure was that the President proposed and the Congress disposed.

It is not a fascist takeover that's going on here of the healthcare system.

These days Congress can't seem to agree on whether the sun is shining, but this issue has brought us together in a way unlike anything we have seen here.