Bill Pascrell actually said...

"In response to the last series of questions, I would conclude myself, Dr. Wah, that those that can afford it might look for private assistance but not the majority of those on Medicare."

"I think we ought to take a look at that very seriously and I think there is a lot of money involved that we can debate and come to some kind of agreement."

"I really think that when you are talking about examining the process, by which we put the budget forward, that scoring legislation needs to be reviewed and perhaps changed, do you think?"

"I think it is utter nonsense. We can have a skeleton, we can have protocol, we can have this model of a 10-year budget, but you saw what happened the last time we did this and it did not work out."