Joseph Pitts actually said...

This staggering price tag is just one side of the physician payment reform problem.

I hope that this hearing will not focus narrowly on options that would shift our problems paying for the SGR onto beneficiaries.

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate if nothing is done physicians will see reimbursement for services provided...

It would be unacceptable to have anything less than the highest standards for our nuclear power plants.