Joseph Pitts actually said...

"This will harm the sick, the elderly, and the disabled--all of whom already pay high costs for their medical care."

"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."

"According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate if nothing is done physicians will see reimbursement for services provided to Medicare patients cut by 29.4 percent on January 1, 2012..."