Dan Quayle: “I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I was listening to his comments about talking with his constituents back home…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I was listening to his comments about talking with his constituents back home and about how many doctors are not seeing Medicare patients, not seeing new Medicare patients, or are not seeing the patients that they currently provide services to. I know, like the gentleman from Arkansas, he does a lot of teletown halls and town halls just like I do. The other week I was on a teletown hall with my constituents back home, and there were a number of people who raised the concerns that their doctors were not going to provide them the medical services that they had in the past because they were uncertain about the payments that the Medicare system would be giving them. This is a constant refrain that we hear back home from our seniors, that they are consistently getting turned down by their physicians because of the lack of payment from Medicare. This is a system that we need to fix. This is a system that we need to make sure that we keep the promises to our seniors and reform it for future generations so that it will be there to protect them when they reach the retirement age. If you look at ObamaCare, it is really filled with provisions that confer arbitrary power, that raise costs. It cuts benefits, it harms access, and it restricts choice. Against this really sorry backdrop, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, has the dubious distinction of being one of the absolute worst provisions in the entire health care bill.…”