Do you think it might be better just to collect your own data and never mind the RUC?

It seems to me that the biggest problem that those of us who are supporting of the President's plan still have about what is going on, is that controlling costs is still not very well done.

I lived in Kinshasa and was a regional medical officer with the State Department and saw the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

What I am really looking for is the best set of rules and regulations that we can have to make this law work.

I think you get a little more humble as you go along in this business and you realize that passing a bill isn't everything that it is cut out to be.

Republicans propose cutting $850 million from the CDC.

The Republicans want to cut $1.3 billion from community health centers.

This past Friday, the Republicans put out their plan to cut a hundred billion dollars from the Federal budget.

they propose cutting $1 billion from the National Institutes of Health. Now this cut is just plain stupid.

Can you imagine your father at age 90 going out looking for a health insurance plan with a voucher?

Seniors already spend one third of their income on health care. They can't afford any more skin in the game.

So if Mr. Ryan and the Republicans succeed in moving to a voucher system--that is, we hand 5,700 or 6,300 or whatever amount to seniors every month--how will that administrative cost on the insurance companies, will that be an added cost…