Senator Whitehouse, Ranking Member Enzi, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this very important hearing on health care delivery system reform.

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

We must improve bailout and antitrust policies to minimize the potential for undesirable outcomes driven by political considerations.

If net neutrality proponents prevail, it is less likely that companies that operate most of the Internet will have sufficient economic incentives to build needed new capacity.

On these quite intensive days for Government and the Parliament we deem it relevant and appropriate to reflect upon the issue of competition. This word has been frequently abused and idolized as the goal of any market process instead of being considered an instrument, a process regulated for the benefit...

The diverse goals of a public enterprise can lead it to act more aggressively toward its rivals than a private enterprise would.