Christopher Shays: “They can. And it is not like the telephone system, where if you were on AT&T and you automatically find you are with…”

“They can. And it is not like the telephone system, where if you were on AT&T and you automatically find you are with Sprint or MCI, no, you stay in the plan. You stay in the traditional fee-for-service. You have to ask to be out and then you can request immediately to be put back, and within a month you are back in the old plan. So it is hard for me to understand why the President vetoed. The reason he vetoed is he said we were cutting, even though the plan grew so much. It is true we were able to save. We were able to save the fund from bankruptcy. We had it remain solvent to the year 2010, and we were able to save the taxpayers over $200 billion. So it was just difficult for me to understand why the President would not have accepted that plan.”