Charles Boustany: “I think you raise some important points, especially about after-the-fact and audits.”

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.

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.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 13, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon. Page 3, line 15, strike the period at the end and…