On the recordMarch 16, 2010
I am trying to understand this. So if the Medicare Advantage participants in Arizona who are having their Medicare Advantage cut, and the Medicare Advantage participants in Florida who are not, under the Gator Aid that Senator Bill Nelson cut, that special deal, having their Medicare Advantage cut, if the House only deems the bill passed, can they sue and can they win? Or will the courts say, well, no, no, no, your Congressman may have said he didn't vote for the bill, he just deemed it passed, but trust me, we, the courts say he did vote for the bill. And so Arizona taxpayers on Medicare Advantage lose out, Florida taxpayers because of Bill Nelson and the special deal he cut currently in the Senate bill, which you say can't have a word changed when it comes here, they win out. Pretty good deal. By the way, I look at some of these other deals, there is special funding for coal miners in Montana. There is just provision after provision. In North Dakota there are special provisions providing higher Medicare payments there. There are special provisions for Hawaii that apparently the two Hawaii Senators got in. There are special provisions for longshoremen in Oregon. You know, this thing looks to me like it is chockablock full of special deals for special Members, special Senators who say, well, you know, I want a special deal or I won't vote for it.
