Ron Kind: “So there are some powerful trends that are leading to a reduction in overall health care spending, things that we should…”

“So there are some powerful trends that are leading to a reduction in overall health care spending, things that we should study and explore and try to sustain. But moving forward with an SGR repeal based on pay-fors that are being offered is just a dead-end road, it is not going to advance, and this is too important of a topic, too serious of an issue throughout our health care system to play these partisan, political games all over again. So let's scratch this itch once again, and then, next week, let's come back together and see if we can, in a bipartisan fashion, find some commonsense, reasonable offsets that both parties can agree to, that the Senate can work on, that the President will sign, so we can finally get rid of this SGR onus that has been hanging over us.”