Joseph Pitts actually said...

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

I earnestly hope we can work together on a bipartisan basis to solve this issue this year.

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

The system that is currently used to pay physicians for providing services to beneficiaries in the Medicare System is broken and has been fo...