John B. Breaux: “I take it that this was done prior to 911?”

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.

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

The great challenge today I would just suggest to both my Democratic colleagues and my Republican friends and colleagues... is how do both political parties bridge the gap between the different political philosophies and produce health…

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