There's been an argument whether it's possible for Congress to enact a full-scale Medicare reform package or whether it would be easier to just do a prescription drug benefit. I mean, prescription drugs is what everyone wants. It needs fixing now. Prescription drugs is the honey. It's the magnet that's going to allow us to get Medicare reform.
Prescription drugs is politically popular.
But we need Medicare reform. I'm going to argue against just passing prescription drugs, because I don't see any other engine out there to drive Medicare reform in the future without prescription drugs. Maybe I've been a governor for too long and things don't move quite that rapidly here. But it's always been my hope that we would have a Medicare reform package put together by late spring or early summer. Then they're going to hold hearings on it and get it marked up and ready for floor action in the fall.