John B. Breaux: “I want to thank the panel.”

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.

I think the whole debate politically about ending Medicare as we know it, I think we want to change Medicare.

We want to keep Medicare. I think we want to improve the delivery system.

I remember when I was in Congress when I wanted to stop something from happening, I used to offer an amendment to do a study, or maybe to do a demonstration program, hoping it never got completed.