If you worked for me you would be fired this afternoon.

I guess I kind of reject that because under the higher cost you're getting $25.40. Under the lower one you're getting $21.10. I don't think either one is adequate.

I'm concerned about--I have a very rural area--access and it's exactly what we're seeing, that the private practices are being bought up for one sole purpose and that's so the DSH hospitals can cheat.

if there's a problem in the cost of drugs and cancer drugs, it's all the private oncology practices being purchased by hospital systems--DSH hospitals who then get a 50 percent break from the pharmaceutical companies on these expensive…

I kind of reject CMS' whole premise that nuancing the +6, which we know is really 4.3, or the 2.5 which is really .86, that would only make an impact in prescribing drugs if these doctors, before they treated a patient, would be bringing…

That would be a nightmare.

That's very good news, actually, if there's such a thing as good news here.

This education is absolutely critical for us, as well as the public.

So if there is one absolute, I'm assuming the one absolute is a pregnant woman should not travel to those areas.

Representatives Diane Black, Peter Welch and myself introduced H.R. 4059 which would actually have a small incentive paid by Medicare.

the federal government now is trying to address that problem of very few people having these advance directives.