Ron Kind

The real news is what the New York Times reported that Mr. Thompson cited, health plan costs for New Yorkers set to fall 50 percent.

We just want the facts of what is happening and what we need to do to prepare for what is coming up.

Son, you are going to face two critics in life, people who criticize you because they want to see you do better and those who criticize you because they want to see you fail.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin will be postponed. Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Carney The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I believe the chairman has the right to close. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma has the right to close and does still have time.

At this time, I'd like to yield 1 minute to my good friend, the gentlewoman from Maine (Ms. Pingree).

I want to thank the gentleman for his leadership on this issue. As the former past Farm Bureau president in the State of Ohio and someone who is intimately familiar with these commodity programs, his lead has been crucial. He knows how the…

I think there is tremendous opportunity to enhance the quality of care in the post-acute-care setting, at a substantial cost savings as well.

I think the average taxpayer back home would be astounded if they knew that because of our unwillingness or inability to reform our own cotton subsidy program within our farm bill, we are now subsidizing Brazil cotton producers to the tune…

We have a problem on our hands, and hopefully this Committee will be able to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to fix it.

If time is of the essence, I don't know why we are repealing the Affordable Care Act 37 times and then trying to move forward on a plan that does nothing for the next 10 years.

If at the end of the day all we are doing is talking about cost shifting, that is not the path forward because that is not the reform that we need to create the right incentives to get better value at a better price within the healthcare…

There are tools in the Affordable Care Act right now to drive the system in that direction, including payment reform.

I hope this is the first of many more hearings that we can do to explore avenues of bipartisan cooperation on reforming a healthcare system that is in desperate need of reform.

I urge you to support this common sense, good governance bill, and I thank you for holding this hearing.

I think there will be great resistance with current Medicare beneficiaries for any increased cost sharing that might be asked of them.

I really don't understand the argument for holding the debt ceiling hostage and jeopardizing the full faith and credit...

We need a long-term, bipartisan deficit reduction agreement in this place that is comprehensive and that will get our fiscal house in order.

I have no further speakers. I encourage my colleagues to support H.R. 1845, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I want to thank my good friend, the gentleman from California, for his support of H.R. 1845, in particular, the SMART Act, and congratulate him, as well, on his distinguished career since he will be retiring at the end of this session of…

Something that is not available to us until we're able to move this legislation here today. Now, as was pointed out earlier, Governor Romney indicated that Russia, in his view, is America's greatest geostrategic adversary in the 21st…

Many of us at the time who voted against it didn't think it was fiscally responsible to be offering these higher reimbursement payments to the MA plans without any ability to pay for it to begin with.

I am sorry, but that is just not good enough. We can't sit around and wait 10 years to start making important changes within the health care system.

We have to change the way we pay for health care so it is value- or outcome-based, and no longer volume-based payments.

It is going to require a lot of hard work. It is quite frankly going to take the effort of a Nation, not just one party, to try to reform a health care system that is in desperate need of reform.