as the old saying goes, i say to my friend from the navy, spending money like drunken sailors. and yet they want to keep the bar open longer than -- and we want to increase the debt at a time when our nation cannot afford it, when we have 10% unemployment, and yet the folks who know medicare the best and can look at this objectively and share with the american people what their beliefs are on what the impacts are going to be, this is going to be devastating for patients who rely on medicare for their health care -- that's our seniors -- devastating for small community hospitals. and i see the former governor of nebraska, senator from nebraska, who's here who knows, like i do in wyoming, the impact on our small community hospitals. but as the senator from tennessee said, this is all being done in the back room. we're not really privy to the newest changes, which i think are actually going to make matters worse. when "the new york times" today says "democrats >> new ideas would be even more expensesive. few details. questions exist about the affordability." what we're dealing wit