Not as common. Give me numbers here.

the RACs operate like the fishermen in my district. They go out and throw a great big net.

Simplifying the program, a complex Medicare program would be helpful.

There was a Senator by the name of Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said there are a lot of simple answers around but we need a great complexifier.

The three midnight rule is a problem considering how medicine is practiced today.

You know what we are trying to do. How would you design what we should do at this point?

The idea of that is, in fact, to make people pay more out of pocket on the assumption that they will be more careful healthcare consumers.

From a patient's standpoint you walk into the emergency room or whatever, and you get put in one of these statuses or the other.

Unlike some of my Republican counterparts, I believe some level of regulation is necessary to ensure that we protect Medicare's finite resources for future generations.

Fourteen percent?

I think everyone in this room would agree that protecting Medicare as a bedrock institution of American life, thereby serving the greater good, does require some sacrifice.