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

Every taxpayer dollar must be protected.

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

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

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

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 urge Secretary Sebelius and Administrator Tavenner to rescind this rule.

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

CMS is choosing to ignore the law.

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

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

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