mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i'm sorry but i simply cannot support yet another temporary s.g.r. patch. this bill is bad for seniors and it's bad for doctors. we want to achieve a permanent solution to this ongoing problem. this bill does nothing to achieve that goal. in fact, it sets back months and months of hard work. what we should be considering today is a bipartisan, bicameral agreement that my colleague and i developed. that bill is what doctors' groups and patient groups support. that bill can also be offset without robbing one provider to pay another provider. what's before us today doesn't fix the problem. it exacerbates t we had a true opportunity to finally accomplish what our constituents have asked us to do for a decade, and that's pass a permanent repeal of the s.g.r., but the republican leadership sletting that opportunity slip away. and i respect my colleague from pennsylvania, but i don't believe that if we pass another patch that we are going to go back and do a permanent fix. my fear i

mr. pallone. i cannot express my disappointment with the proposed additional temporary patch o the sustainable growth rate, the s.g.r., the doc fix. it's morphed no an annual ritual, disrupting the provision of medical -- medicine in this country as the physicians plead with us to not do something crazy. it's simply today an accounting sleight of hand. it's a power play and a fundraising tool, to be sure, that disrupts the practice of

mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for three minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. pallone. i cannot express my disappointment with the proposed additional temporary patch o the sustainable growth rate, the s.g.r., the doc fix. it's morphed no an annual ritual, disrupting the provision of medical -- medicine in this country as the physicians plead with us to not do something crazy. it's simply today an accounting sleight of hand. it's a power play and a fundraising tool, to be sure, that disrupts the practice of medicine, but we have absolutely no intention of ever having the s.g.r. cut occur. it may bite for a day or two, but we're not going to allow a reduction on that order of magnitude. we will find some sort of adjustment, as we always have, that will not be satisfactory and will continue the uncertainty and the indignity that is inflicted on people

mr. pallone.e worked long and hard to get the policy right and we worked with the other committees to do it as well. the difficulty we always knew was going to be on the pay-for. and i would suggest this -- we want to work with the senate, we want to get this thing done. the pay-for is the toughest part. let's go to conference. let's work with the senate to get a pay-for that can work. now, we know that there's a deadline coming up at the end of this month, and as we look to try and find a pay-for, let me go through some of the other delays that this administration has already done. individual mandate delay, americans with canceled coverage due to obamacare, delayed. individual mandate deadline for purchasing coverage, delayed. individual mandates for non-a.c.a. compliant plans, delayed by the administration. annual limit requirement, delayed. m.l.r. requirement, delayed. m.a. cuts through demo bonus money, delayed. employer reporting, employer machine date, high-risk pool closure delayed. out-of-