Pete Domenici: “Frankly, from what I understand, he did it with a very cool hand. Maybe it was different in those days. It was less…”

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

That is clearly a part of it, no question.