he's not here, but senator isaacsohn and senator warner were champions as well much i want to express my appreciation to the chairman you can the progress that we are making. i have to make some comments with respect to something we didn't know about, until about an hour ago. that's this matter of the co-ops. what we have said is that we want to work in a bipartisan way to improve a variety of sections of the affordable care act. now the, this new material on the co-ops that neither i nor anyone knew something about, was available. i intend to look at it with an eye on what can be done on a bipartisan basis going-forward. but my work -- and i think the work of colleagues here always ought to come back to the idea of making health care policy more accessible and more affordable. and for now, and i certainly haven't seen this report. i'm not going to be participating in any celebration of people suffering because the co-ops were tied up in a congressionally induced economic straightjacket. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank, senator. >> our first witness is miss erin bliss. from the offi

he's not here, but senator isaacsohn and senator warner were champions as well much i want to express my appreciation to the chairman you can the progress that we are making. i have to make some comments with respect to something we didn't know about, until about an hour ago. that's this matter of the co-ops. what we have said is that we want to work in a bipartisan way to improve a variety of sections of the affordable care act. now the, this new material on the co-ops that neither i nor anyone knew something about, was available. i intend to look at it with an eye on what can be done on a bipartisan basis going-forward. but my work -- and i think the work of colleagues here always ought to come back to the idea of making health care policy more accessible and more affordable. and for now, and i certainly haven't seen this report. i'm not going to be participating in any celebration of people suffering because the co-ops were tied up in a congressionally induced economic straightjacket. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank, senator. >> our first witness is miss erin bliss. from the offi