Mike Enzi: “I think the answer that I gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill because the…”

It's a bipartisan bill that would be the single biggest thing near-term you could do to help rural hospitals.

Pass Senate Bill 397, the Fair Medicare Hospital Payments Act, which is initially sponsored by Senator Isakson.

I formed a rural caucus, and I found that almost every state wanted to be represented in that caucus.

It's important to examine what drives healthcare costs and how we can create more value for patients particularly, and specifically in rural areas.