04/02/2013
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"Medicare's current benefit design needs to be reformed in a way that more adequately reflects the needs and expectations of today's seniors."
"I have got to tell you, several years ago in one of the SGR fixes that I have introduced since coming to Congress, and there have been several, but one of them actually did away with Part A and Part B..."
"But ultimately that is why someone buys insurance, correct, so they are not hit with the entire cost of whatever the event might be that they are insured against."
"I always allude to the solo practitioner in Muleshoe, Texas, who really can't participate in an ACO."