01/14/2009
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"What about the Senior Medicare Patrol? Is this a way of involving senior citizens on Medicare to really be our eyes and ears?"
"we went through and reduced outlier payments. We encouraged face-to-face visits with physicians."
"Well then, Mr. Chairman, it is certainly a compliment to you and the health care bill that at least those shells, those storefronts, that is moving out of there."
"But I always worry about a study that's not done, in anticipation we're going to authorize and/or appropriate money on the assumption of what the study's going to say before we have the actual conclus..."