so the headline read thakei and takano endorse takai. all three of us get confused, but we have the pleasure now of calling ourselves friends. and in fact i'm going to see george takei in a few months, we're going to go up to new york and, you know, he's debuting in a new broadway show, focused on the japanese american experience. and looking forward to that, that show. >> we hope we continue to get it right, congressman takai of hawaii. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. aloha. >> our final freshman profile of the day, congressman john ratcliffe of texas. he defeated incumbent ralph hall in the republican primary and went on to run uncontested in the general election. at the time congressman hall was the oldest serving member of congress. >> congressman john ratcliffe from the 4th congressional district of texas. you challenged a sitting incumbent republican, the longest serving member of congress and also world war ii veteran. why did you decide to run for congress and why in a republican primary? >> well, steve, i had been inv

takano. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, understand that my colleague from california ask you about graduate middle school association i want to associate myself with those remarks. riverside county which represent, this but only 34 primary care physicians for every 100,000 people. half the number of doctors needed to provide adequate access to care. i understand the gme levels have been frozen under the medicare and medicaid budgets since the 1996. i associate myself with the exchange. i hear from my colleagues about rising health care costs and mr. courtney of connecticut commented on those low rates of growth. in that case it's a good thing. the affordable care act is bending the cost of the health has been at the lowest -- slows rate on record since 1960 and health care price inflation it at its lowest rate in your just is because you mentioned california-based its premiums for the 2016 plan year statewide average increase bring is just 4% that's even lower than last year and a far cry from the years of