Nick Lampson: “I have a question regarding a visit I had just a few minutes ago from some physicians from the State of Texas asking me…”

“I have a question regarding a visit I had just a few minutes ago from some physicians from the State of Texas asking me about the replacement of the Medicare funding into the CR. We know that on January 1, their Medicare payments, or payments to the doctors for treating Medicare payments, will go away. They will be notified at the beginning of December, we understand on December 1. What the doctors are saying is that they received information from us that we would as a Congress attempt to address this last year. We did not. That we would address it this year. We did not. They are afraid that when those letters in December go out asking those doctors to reup, to agree to continue to see Medicare patients, that the answer is going to be 'no way.' We need to address this because it is going to affect an awful lot of people. Can the gentleman from Wisconsin tell me, or others, whether or not this language will indeed be put into this CR before we vote on it?”