many of us here and many across the land sincerely believe that the principles that you outlined that all of us hold dear, accessibility, and affordability, and quality are all being harmed by the current path that we are on.

In some cases, in small and rural practices, as we have discussed, it will drive physicians out of business. So access is destroyed for those patients in those areas.

I am hopeful that the OIG will give us a report that actually reflects the sincere problems that are out there on the ground.

I want to commend you, Mr. Steedley, for what you are doing.

The current program is critical, but unsustainable.

What we are doing is taking more money out of the pockets of American people to do not what they want but what the government is forcing them to do.

I would ask the American people to ask themselves, for whom? For whom is the cost less? And the answer to that question is the government.

What we are trying to get to here is how to address the law and make the policy at the Federal level consistent with patient-centered health care.

the decisions are removed from them, the choices are removed from them.

I would just note with some amusement that all, except for Mr. Blumenauer, who used his entire time, all of my friends on the other side who asked questions of the panelists...

I want to join my colleagues who have congratulated you.