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

Republicans propose cutting $850 million from the CDC.

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

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?

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?

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

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…

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

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

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