Joe Barton actually said...

"I don't see why CMS has to arbitrarily say this is going to be the way it is come hell or high water."

"I would like to see CMS work with the user community at the provider level and come up with a way to incentive it without telling them they had to do it."

"I think it is good to have transparency."

"you can make things happen by punitive measures or you can make things happen by incentives"