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Last Congress, this Committee... spent a great deal of time examining our Nation's broken immigration system.

the Visa Waiver Program, which has been around for actually quite a while, continues to evolve and to hopefully be improved.

Good. Well, I think we agree it is important to continue our efforts, and we want to be helpful.

I am a big supporter of your ongoing efforts to move our country's health care system away from volume-based toward value-based payment for care.

A number of years ago we--Dr. Coburn and I, in the Bush administration and then in the Obama administration--focused, focused, focused on this with GAO and started to see that number being driven down, which is good.

I am concerned about the funding cliff that is faced by our federally qualified community health centers.

The PACE model for providing care and services is a good fit for this younger, qualified population.

Would you please discuss with us some of the improvements in health care outcomes as well as cost savings that may have already been realized in the last few years due to value-based Medicare reimbursements?

I was pleased to see the Administration's proposal to expand PACE to serve younger individuals with disabilities and other high-risk populations.

As Governor, I worked on the development of the Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program in Delaware.

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