Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for that question. I think his charts pointed to the fact that he was articulating, the fact that everybody is arguing about the Web site. As somebody who has been involved in a software company that wrote code, what happened is very unfortunate, but writing code and fixing it is a straightforward task that can be achieved. It is a little less difficult than cleaning up oil in the gulf or something of larger environmental impact. To me, we will get that fixed. In the meantime, there are a lot of things that have to happen, that need to change in our delivery system that are about saving costs, delivering better quality care, that we know are proven, successful answers to this question. We need to get more than just these States to take us up on this offer. We need to get CBO to actually give us a score on how much money this has the potential of saving, and then we have to figure out a way to incentivize all other States to implement this as soon as possible. When you think about our senior population, this is what they want. They want to stay at home as long as possible. It is so much cheaper per Medicaid beneficiary to do this. This is what we have to achieve.…”