Nancy L. Johnson: “There are two questions here. First of all, let me answer the subsidy one. We provide 60 percent subsidy of the…”

We certainly are willing to accept the gentleman's amendment. It is a very thoughtful and important one.

Yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Hulshof). (Mr. HULSHOF asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I absolutely do. I think we are facing the possibility of physicians fleeing the Medicare program and creating a real access problem for seniors to physicians of their choice. But acceding to the Senate position is not going to fix it; it…

Does the gentleman feel confident even without any placeholder, should, say, the Senate fail to provide a placeholder, as they have in the past, that we will be able to address this in conference?