negotiations you re describing could lead to further reductions for hospitals and doctors and other care-givers, or we ll get a sequester n a sequester, hospitals would be particularly hit as well as other who is receive and provide service and provide services for medicare beneficiaries for seniors. jon: you re talking what if congress can t come up with what, $1.2 trillion budget cuts? right. jon: automatically billions get cut from medicare, right? right. what was misunderstood by some of the policymakers in this process who talked about avoiding hits to seniors these kinds of arbitrary, across-the-board cuts that affect hospitals and will affect doctors and others who provide care to seniors, the care seniors depend on, it will affect our ability to maintain the technology and the services that people expect and deserve from medicare. jon: okay, but you just said