If the Congress wishes to extend added benefits for these sorts of services, it seems to us that is your call, that is the Congress' responsibility, but in the interest of solvency of the Medicare Program and the interest of existing beneficiaries who have to finance this with their part B premiums, we ought to do it in the most efficient way possible, and Medicare Advantage is not doing that.
Stark discusses the responsibility of Congress regarding Medicare benefits and efficiency.
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I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 436, one more piece of Republican legislation that protects special interests at the expense of working with families. This is just another message in an attempt to…
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