I believe a quality education is the basic right of every American.

I also appreciate my colleague, Senator Murphy, for talking about some of the issues that we're not grappling with here today, stagnant wages, et cetera, as we look at the health of our middle class.

A report by the Joint Economic Committee released this week, chaired by our colleague on this committee, Senator Casey, states that for women over 65 years of age, Social Security accounts for two-thirds of their total income.

I'm deeply concerned about some of the statistics from my home State of Wisconsin, the number of citizens who rely solely on Social Security as a source of income once they retire.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, thank you for the focus of this hearing.

I would like to see every medical school have a workforce plan.

I appreciate the attention that is going to be focused on it.

Ensuring access to quality and affordable healthcare has been and will always continue to be a very high priority of mine.

One of the ways that we've already seen expansion of access to care... is the provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows young people to stay on their parents' health insurance until they're 26.

The Mental Health Parity Act and the Affordable Care Act both take important steps to make this vision a reality.

Around 200,000 Wisconsinites could gain Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion should our Governor make that decision.