Is there any specific other provision in the act or any other prior decision by the Department or any other rule or regulation that would prohibit you from delaying the individual mandate compared to just using Section 7805 authority to…

My colleague, Mr. Roskam, and prior to him Mr. Ryan, highlighted the problems that individuals, if they continue to face the mandate, may experience relative to penalties in the future.

I think putting financial cost-sharing on consumers to have them help identify fraud is not necessarily the best way to go.

Wouldn't it incentivize providing more care because you are going to get reimbursed more than what your actual, in essence, retail billing would be for that service?

Wouldn't it make more sense, though, if a home health agency bills for, say, the $1,500, that the formula for reimbursement ought to be the lesser of what that episode of care was under the current formula or what is billed, whichever is…

This is why Representatives Jim Gerlach and Mike Thompson wrote the Conservation Easement Incentive Act.

I look forward to his testimony today. And again, I want to thank the Chairman for allowing his opportunity to provide testimony to the panel.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your recognition and for your leadership in initiating a comprehensive review of the Tax Code, and today specifically for looking at charitable deductions.

You know Congress wants to get this done.

I am really stunned, too, by the lack of responsiveness by CMS on this issue over the years.

Congress has told you repeatedly, year after year, that this has to be done.