Is your thought process changing on that now?
Okay. Well, my time is up. I will follow up with a series of questions with you, and we can talk and all the rest of it.
But most States are not. All States are going to face huge budget cuts, because we are facing them here.
And my final interruption. How are you made aware of and how do you use, if they have been sent to you, the standards that CMS insists on?
You are.
You always have been.
I want to start by applauding you and those who work with you for all the hard work you have done to improve care for those patients eligibl...
I respect your words and I respect you, but I am not comforted by your words, by your answer.
I want to make sure we get a few things right. While we are solving problems for the duals, I want to make sure that we are not creating pro...
We should be letting the policy--providing high-quality, better coordinated care for duals--determine what our approach is, not cost saving.
I am concerned that moving millions of duals out of the competitive bidding system could undermine the integrity of the Part D program.
We have an obligation to learn what works for this population and to do it in a way that puts people first.
To me, Medicare-Medicaid managed care is a model that has not been shown to work for even small numbers of dual-eligibles.
I do not think you can tell me that you can take a huge demonstration project with hundreds of thousands of people in it, and then sort of b...
Why did CMS decide not to require demonstration plans to submit competitive bids in the same way that other Part D plans do?
I care a lot about CMS's guidelines. I want to make sure that they are enforced.
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Thank you Senator Rockefeller for your gracious invitation to share my experience during the gas pipeline explosion in Sissonville on Tuesda...
