Chris Hollen actually said...

"The Republican approach would end the Medicare guarantee of a package of benefits specified in law..."

"And in fact, just to close out, Mr. Chairman, in your testimony you point out that in those cases where your support, the amount of your voucher does not keep pace with the market costs of health care..."

"So once it is fully phased in, and the chairman mentioned reductions in the Medicare. So some of the savings we achieved, a significant amount of savings we achieved, were in reducing these overpaymen..."

"If you are simply transferring a Medicare beneficiary from the Medicare system into the private health market, and the growth in costs in the private health market is the same or higher than Medicare,..."