These plans will save healthy people money but will be costly for people with more medical needs more.

Right now we have $10 billion in cuts on the table for the Medicare program in the U.S. Congress. So we're moving in the wrong direction.

There are serious moral and ethical questions that arise when a provider requires you to pay a fee that may not be affordable for everyone.

We have a growing crisis. We aren't looking at solutions to the crisis. We're looking at cutting back the very program that has cushioned the impact.

It covers the kids, but it may leave the moms in the waiting room who care for the children without access to the doctor if she's sick.

Our fear is that the savings will be on the back of poor people rather than highly profitable pharmaceutical companies and highly profitable abusive providers.

It certainly raises a lot of serious questions, with a pharmaceutical company involved in financing the development of a Medicaid (reform plan).

Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years.

We're seeing how public programs are helping offset what is happening on the employer-based side.