But unfortunately, every dollar that we are talking about is going to be borrowed.

I cannot afford to see a Medicare patient. That is a tragedy.

One of the things that has come up over and over again in my world is what is happening to--it is one thing to have coverage, but if you have got no one to deliver the care it becomes extremely problematic.

We have burdened them with an untenable amount of debt. And unfortunately, they are the ones who are going to have to pay it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do want to rise in support of the rule and in support of the underlying bill. It is interesting that our Secretary of Energy, Secretary Granholm, came to Austin, Texas, 3 or 4 weeks ago and talked…

We are very quickly on the road where we are going to be spending more money, mandatory spending, on the interest payments that we spend on defense of the United States.

It is a failure because of poor planning on the part of HHS and mismanagement of the law passed by Congress.

I don't see how it is sustainable, what the Democrats have put us into.

I can only draw the conclusion that you didn't look at the data that was available.

I voted against the No Surprises Act because I was worried about this exact thing.

Oh, my God. You have described an absolutely staggering, astonishing volume of dollars which the country didn't have.

I don't think Executive orders are the way to go, I think we should do it legislatively.