John B. Breaux: “It's certainly not a newsworthy item that someone has found out that there's a Federal program in Washington that could…”

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.

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

Just like my Chevy II, things have changed, things have improved, so our recommendation is that we keep Medicare of course.