this republican budget walkways from our seniors, newsing ho nu. every day seniors can count on medicare for life-saving medications doctors' visits, and denying this health care by privatizing medicare is not responsible budgeting. it's a betrayal of our nation's seniors and democrats in this administration will not let it happen. i would like to yield back. yield to my good friend and ranking member. >> thank you, ms. schwartz and thank you for offering this amendment. as this committee knows very well, the increase in costs for beneficiary in the private market have been going up at least as fast in most years faster than the increase of costs in the medicare program. we also know by looking at medicare advantage itself, that until the past affordable care act, we were paying 140% in many cases of fee for service. let me say that again. we were providing the private plans with a huge subsidy, paid not only by taxpayers but by every medicare beneficiary in the fee for service program. so to suggest this as a solution is counter to facts.-- and it