Charles Boustany: “The new law gives the impression that there are provisions to help finance Medicare and improve Medicare.”

Less choice, less information, less control. This is disastrous for health 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).

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

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