clinics across the country are turning away thousands of medicare patients. they are blaming the sequester is. ted joins us. tell me, ted, why are the cancer centers turning away medicare patients? >> well, the problem is, greta, is that the sequester cut medicare across-the-board by 2%. and the biggest problem here with cancer clinics is unlike cutting services by 2% that physicians provide it is cutting the underlying cost of the drug. you are talking about taking a fixed cost for a drug that a cancer clinic dispenses to a patient and administers to patient and cuting that underlying cost. the problem is you have a clinic sitting there and saying i have a choice, do i continue on treating these medicare patients in the clinic as oh opposed to send them elsewhere to the hospital for the treatment for example and incur a loss with each one and ultimately not being able to