Charles Boustany: “We can be introducing a whole variety of inflationary effects we haven't even begun to think of.”

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

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