We urge the Senate Finance Committee to report S. 2121 to the full Senate.
if you wanted to turn rural America into sacrifice zones where hospitals shut down and people cannot get the health care...
people in rural areas today feel like their local hospitals are already teetering on the brink of closing their doors.
the Trump administration and half of Congress have spent the last 15 months desperately trying to make huge cuts to Medi...
What concrete policy ideas would you suggest this committee pursue to help attract more providers to rural America?
We can get a bipartisan package here--this is doable--a bipartisan product in a crucial kind of area.
You ought to be able to practice at the top of your license and particularly in these rural areas.
I have very, very strong feelings, which I will not express again, about how damaging these Medicaid cuts would be.
This just looks like a bureaucratic la-la land to me, trying to sort all this stuff out.
I am anxious to work with him on the agenda he has outlined.
I would like to just go down the row and have each of you give me what would be your top priority for Medicare as it rel...
we have really got some heavy lifting to do in the next 5 years.
Keeping these hospital emergency departments open is a key challenge when it comes to rural health care.
It ought to be possible to guarantee that rural Americans are not on the outside looking in.
the fastest way to do it is by slashing Medicaid.
I think it is very doable to produce a bipartisan product here.
Opening statement.
I think that is so important.
