I have seen the cuts. When I turned 65 5 years ago, we had four plans to choose from...

We should be encouraging seniors to take control of their healthcare and expanding this proven program.

This Administration's policies are harming seniors by reducing their choices of high quality care through a series of cuts to the Medicare program.

Medicare Advantage is fundamentally about offering seniors the choice of better health care than traditional Medicare.

Every taxpayer dollar must be protected.

We must do everything in our power to safeguard the money in the trust fund.

We cannot afford a future where our seniors' hospital bills go unpaid.

That claim is, frankly, false.

The Medicare Trust Fund is set to go bankrupt sometime in the next decade.

It is clear, however, in my opinion, that program integrity provisions alone will not provide a sustainable Medicare program for the future.

I urge Secretary Sebelius and Administrator Tavenner to rescind this rule.

CMS is choosing to ignore the law.

The success of Part D is largely attributed to its competitive, free-market structure.

The removal of these drugs from protected class status risks the lives of current and future beneficiaries.

Competition and choice have kept premiums stable.

The Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit is a government success story.

Rather than continue a successful program and encourage innovation, now we are faced with a rule to ruin one of the only working parts of our current healthcare system.

I don't think CMS should be outlawing seniors' current prescription drug plans by placing arbitrary caps on the number of plans that can be offered.

More than 90 percent of seniors are satisfied with their Part D drug coverage because of this.

Only in Washington would there be a big government solution in search of a problem that simply does not exist.

I urge the President of the administration to come before Congress to seek statutory change.

Part D should be the model for future reforms to the Medicare Program.

The Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit is a government success story.

Why is the Administration dead set on pushing policies that harm seniors and using their Medicare program as a piggy bank to fund other healthcare programs?

It is disheartening, to say the least, that this committee needs to hold a hearing bearing the title 'The Worldwide Persecution of Christians.'