the gentleman c about aap. the cbo says they don't know how to measure competitive bidding. the cms said it works. let me compare this to the president's plan. this is bill law that is in the affordable care act. this is what it proposes -- let me do that this is the republican budget and what it proposes to grow medicareat and this is what the affordable care act does for growing medicare. is there much difference? yet my friends on the other side complain that this is draconian cuts to seniors. how can that be a far trajectories are the same tax let's talk about the main difference between our approach and the affordable care act. it is not the proposed spending path, they are the same. the difference is who was in control. 15 bureaucrats or 50 million empowered seniors? that is the difference. look at what happens ip 50ad does not work. the cbo thanks ipap will fail by 2021. 40% of medicare providers and affordable care act will go bankrupt and out of business. they're telling is providers will get paid 80 cents on the dollar and down to 30 cents on the dollar or they wil