Joe Barton actually said...

"Then we should just stiff the Medicare recipients?"

"It is not complicated if you are an elected member of Congress and all of a sudden Medicare recipients start showing up at their town, town hall."

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

"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."