Chuck Grassley actually said...

"Why are we splitting up these two groups? These are two groups of similarly situated individuals."

"Yes. So there is not any defense of Medicare fee-for-service anymore. We are working away from it, so there is no defense for it."

"I have grown to have serious concerns about Medicare's fee-for-service payment system."

"We do not want anything like this to happen again. We are determined to take effective constitutional action to prevent future catastrophes."