Pete Domenici: “This has been an evolving problem for some time now and I share the Senator's concern about whether the proper balance…”

It cries out for flexibility to save money, to do things right, to prevent harming people when they do not have to be.

But that is compared to current policy--current policy. If we would compare your plan to current law, it is actually a tax cut.

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.