John Spratt: “I will use those to say one thing that I haven't said, and that is, in reading this entire resolution which we offer…”

“I will use those to say one thing that I haven't said, and that is, in reading this entire resolution which we offer, you will find four separate reserve funds for the improvement of health care. For example, we provide a reserve fund to cover an increase in Medicare payments to physicians to avoid a cut, a sustainable growth rate cut of 4.6 percent. We say that if you can bargain down the price of prescription drugs, you can put the savings in a reserve fund and use it to improve coverage under Medicare for prescription drugs, closing the donut hole, for example. So I would commend that to everybody's attention. There is a real difference between our budget resolution and theirs, and I ask support for ours.”