Joe Barton: “What I cannot do, with all due respect, is support the entire increase that Chairman Waxman has just outlined of 11.4…”

I think it is a measure of President George H.W. Bush that we all think of him as a personal friend. It is literally true that he had tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of men and women who considered themselves personal…

Then we should just stiff the Medicare recipients?

Well, then the manufacturer doesn't have to give the coupon. If they don't give the coupon to the doctor, the doctor doesn't give it to the patient.

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.