dr. hayworth. ms. hayworth: i thank our distinguished colleague from tennessee, dr. roe. dr. roe, in new york's district 19 i've been sharing a headline with our seniors and with all of our citizens, which is that the affordable care act ends medicare as we know it. it ends medicare as our seniors know it and you, sir, have stated the reason exactly. the independent payment advisory board, which was written into law, passed by the 111th congress, signed into law by president obama, the independent payment advisory board will assure that our seniors, starting in 2015, when they have to make a .5% cut in medicare's budget, our seniors will stop having the access to care that they are accustomed to and they will not be happy about it. and then in every successive year, in 2016 it will be 1%, 2017, 1.25%, 2018, 1.5%, if i've done that math right, dr. roe. our seniors will find that their access to the doctors they know, the doctors they prefer, will not be the same. so when we talk about what we need to do as a nation, we in the house majority have pledged to our seniors that we