"the Republican cuts to Medicare in the future far outstrip anything proposed in the Affordable Care Act"
"the Republican budget proposes to cut Medicare by $32 billion."
"the Republican plan for Medicare is so destructive it would actually end Medicare's guaranteed hospital benefit."
"But a lot of my concern is that it is very much like the BRAC, which I think is a disaster."
"I think we have been very effective. I don't see any need to change MedPAC."
"I think it is a usurpation of, you know, congressional authority and, you know, I have never been in favor."
"I believe very strongly--I am opposed to IPAB, but one of the reasons I also was opposed to it was because I thought that in the Affordable Care Act that we did a very good job about keeping costs dow..."
"There is no way we are ever going to overturn a BRAC decision."
"IPAB has the potential to cause serious harm to Medicare beneficiaries"
"They would simply slash existing programs. They would end Medicare as we know it, and they would slash medical research."
"I do think that certainly when I hear from the doctors, you know, they see the SGR and, again, the cliff we faced in January as the biggest threat to Medicare, more so than IPAB."