mr. reichert: thank you. i would say that this bill does not have a good track record and we should vote for this health care cost reduction act and i encourage my colleagues to do the same. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: i have the privilege of recognizing the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. critz. two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. critz: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you for yielding. mr. speaker, the medical device industry is a unique american success story, both for patients and for our economy. within the last two decades, we have seen a rapid growth in medical technology companies in my home state of pennsylvania. providing tens of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in revenue and contributing to better health outcomes for millions of americans and patients globally. these are good-paying jobs that help sustain the middle class in our country and we must create an environment that encour

mr. reichert's question coming to talk about the beneficiaries, you say the town halls you talk beneficiaries with. any of those beneficiaries say that they want to get a life under fee-for-service to get more difficult? >> no, i don't think that the beneficiaries typically think in those terms. >> i think they are generally speaking beneficiaries like the medicare program will. i don't think they think of fee-for-service as much as so much. >> but life under fee-for-service has to get more difficult, end of quote. >> what does that mean? >> better care. >> getting difficult means better care? >> life getting more difficult for fee-for-service care encouraging them to move for new payment methods more focused on producing high-quality care. estimate you said life getting mark difficult you want life to get more difficult for. and opening the doors to new payment methods. spec when life gets difficult for the doctors of the land how does it get patient? >> the point dr. prices that article was not just to make life more difficult. i guess i just heard you say. >> the means to be pressure on fe