Charles Boustany: “There is good reason to question whether AARP is primarily looking out for seniors or just its own bottom line.”

The trend lines in all these areas are very disturbing, in my mind, as a physician who has been around health care for quite a long time.

We are seeing the costs going up. And of course what the President is proposing is higher taxpayer liability.

I think that is a pretty tacit admission that the market is failing.

This is an absolutely essential amendment because we need more transparency about methods and how these assumptions are built into what they are proposing. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).