dr. massimino, which i quoted from earlier. >> without objection. >> thank you. mr. president i wanted to conclude by mentioning a couple of things. first of all, we have actually seen the danger in using this kind of research for rationing of care in another context. when we created the medicare part d, which provides drugs to seniors, we saw the danger of rationing of drugs and so we specifically provided in the medicare modernization act which provided for the part d drug benefit, an explicit provision that says you can't use cost-effective analysis to allocate the drugs. eight is prohibited there. what we should do is take that same policy and apply it to the rest of our healthcare. to seniors who are on medicare and to the rest of the population to the extent the federal government will be able to dictate its care. we have not related that same protection for any other carrier in the country and that is what our legislation, the patient's act would do. mr. president the final thing that i would like to discuss here is the notion that we can have a government-run