Well, I will remind the gentleman that currently physicians and hospitals are being paid 80 cents on the dollar, and the mystery that seems to be out there and very few people are addressing is--and you hear the other side talking about the rapid rise of private insurance costs. Well, one of the main reasons for that is to offset the shortfall in the Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals. So private insurance is having to make up the difference.
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