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“I thank the gentleman. We have also been joined, in addition to Dr. Scott DesJarlais, by Dr. Phil Gingrey, also an OB-GYN; Nurse Ann Marie Buerkle; and Nan Hayworth, an ophthalmologist from New York. So we've got a full cadre. If anybody here has a headache or, certainly, a heart attack, I think they would be very well taken care of on the floor of the House. With that, I'm going to ask Dr. DesJarlais to talk to us a little bit. I think you have an interest in some of this discussion on IPAB and perhaps other things, so I'd love to hear what you have to say, sir, on that. Mr. DesJARLAIS. Thank you, Dr. Fleming. And I, like Dr. Roe, appreciate you holding this tonight because I think there's so much fear, frustration, and confusion among our Nation's seniors right now about what's really going on. There's a lot of misinformation out there. And I think it's good that we, as health care providers, can get together and help clear up some of the misinformation because, as Dr. Roe said, we should never let the government or bureaucrats get between the doctor and the patient. That's a very important relationship, and I think most all patients would agree. How did we get into this mess? It's really kind of mind boggling that it has come this far. And as you stated earlier, the Democrat plan is doing nothing; and we know that the consequences of that as, per the CBO, the actuary of CMS, Mr. Foster, has said Medicare will be bankrupt by 2020. So we cannot afford to do nothing.…”