Jeff Miller: “Well, I certainly hope so. We have to. I mean 4 years is not very long. I mean when we started this, it was 7 years…”

“Well, I certainly hope so. We have to. I mean 4 years is not very long. I mean when we started this, it was 7 years before bankruptcy. Now it is just 4 years. So we have to do something, the President realizes it. And you know what we are hearing is that he wants to work out an agreement. You know, one thing has been interesting in the past few weeks back in my district and even up here: some of the frustrations with the bureaucracy. Let me tell you a couple of the situations, and that is what people get mad about with Medicare because it is, you know, the big bureaucracy in Washington makes the decisions, and these doctors are just saying they have never had it worse in Medicare. I mean they are getting more letters saying denied, denied, denied, and then the doctor just has to spend all this effort documenting why he did this procedure. And they said, "I'm all ready to give up on the whole thing." I mean there are some doctors that are more senior. They are saying, "Hey, I'm not ready to quit the whole practice of medicine. I cannot tolerate it any more." Give you one other illustration. I had the deans of the medical schools in the State of Florida.”