We've been reshaping the company for the last three or four years and have completed all our major disposals, so we're really on the growth period now.
It's become the thing to do when you're in Chicago — to sing during the seventh-inning stretch, ... Every day, people regularly ask, 'Who's pitching? And who's singing?'
It's a huge increase and unfortunately it's not a surprise. It's all tied to the cost of health insurance. It's either employers dropping coverage, which we haven't seen much of, or employers raising the cost of coverage to workers, so they can no longer afford it.
Based on the information we had last night, we thought it was prudent to go ahead and implement our pre-hurricane plan.
[Nevertheless, he said he was encouraged.] Clearly they're thinking hard about all the key issues and seem to be moving toward a shared responsibility framework that says, 'Everybody's got to be part of this,' ... Today will be seen in the long run as a significant milestone in the process, where the House really began to create its own identity in terms of health reform.
The more realistic and genuinely financed plan is the one offered by the House. It's got real coverage and real financing.
It would have been nice to have some discussion with the leadership.
We're not going for musical excellence. It's OK to be bad. But be fun bad. The level of expectation is zero. If they're bad, we like it.
[And not one of them was paid a dime or expenses to do it. Most of the time their performances were worth every penny.] Right now, ... we're at abysmal . We're trying to move up to bad .
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