Tom Harkin: “My friend from Wyoming was reading from the Federal Register and said ``any increase.'' After reading through this, it…”

“My friend from Wyoming was reading from the Federal Register and said ``any increase.'' After reading through this, it reminds me of an example I have often used about not taking things out of context. It comes from Psalm 14 in the Bible. There is a sentence in the Bible that says, ``There is no God.'' I say to a lot of people, it cannot be true. Yes, there is a sentence in Psalm 14. It is right there. The problem is the sentence before that says: ``The fool in his heart says there is no God.'' You can take things out of context. I started reading this and saw how this was taken out of context. First of all, my friend from Wyoming said ``any increase in fixed amount cost sharing requirement.'' But, it says--he did not read on-- ``if the total percentage increase exceeds the maximum percentage increase,'' as defined in another paragraph over here, which is basically expressed as a percentage of inflation plus 15 points. So it is not any increase, it is any increase based on whether it is inflation plus 15 points.”