Joseph Pitts actually said...

As long as the Medicare trust fund has a balance, the Treasury Department is authorized to make payments on behalf of seniors.

And, generally speaking, our biggest problems are with the dual eligibles between the age of 20 and 40.

There are no provisions in the Social Security Act that govern what would happen if insolvency were to occur.

I introduced earlier this Congress H.R. 2791, the Health and Human Services Hiree Clarification Act, which codifies this committee's clear i...