This is a stage being set to get rid of Medicare. The Republicans have never liked Medicare.

And when you look at it from the two standpoints of the government and the senior citizen, the government cost would go down if we had a voucher system; is that correct?

I believe that the problem is unemployment, not the unemployed.

I don't believe in the blame-the-victim approach.

So it would be--you would have to have some kind of regulatory system to make sure that insurance companies would sell a policy to an 85-year-old who had had several cancers.

Your solution for the unemployed is hold your breath until we pass a VAT in the United States Congress?

While our first priority must be pursuing the policies that encourage job creation, this subcommittee's immediate responsibilities focus more on what to do in the meantime for the many Americans who, through no fault of their own, have…

The point of that is that the Republicans believe that seniors need to put more skin in the game.

So it really is political theater, hyperbole, to make it seem like this bill kills jobs.

can you think of any reason why a small business man or woman could not find a way for health care, if they're making money?

this hearing is really just a press event for the Republicans to twist the facts of the health care law and attempt to further scare and polarize the American public.

the National Business Group on Health, a collection of nearly 500 big employers, opposes repeal.