Charles Boustany: “AARP was created with the praiseworthy and noble goal of promoting independence, dignity and enhancing the quality of…”

I believe it is of vital importance to seek solutions to the problem of delayed payments for veterans' medical care.

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).

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

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.