This staggering price tag is just one side of the physician payment reform problem.
The system that is currently used to pay physicians for providing services to beneficiaries in the Medicare System is broken and has been fo...
I earnestly hope we can work together on a bipartisan basis to solve this issue this year.
I hope that this hearing will not focus narrowly on options that would shift our problems paying for the SGR onto beneficiaries.
According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate if nothing is done physicians will see reimbursement for services provided...
Back in the 1990s when I was a State Senator I authored and we passed into law, actually got bipartisan support, a Patient Bill of Rights La...
the Medicare and Medicaid systems in my mind are so hopelessly outmoded that the old tool, when everything looks like a hammer, everything--...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Before I begin my statement, let me take a moment to first express my concern and condolences for the peo...
I will not support legislation that eliminates jobs or eliminates the opportunities for minorities who have had an unfortunate misstep in th...
My point is modernization has a positive premise. We have to delineate responsibilities.
We need to give Americans the chance to be rehabilitated, to work and provide for their families.
I do not want to try to support something that is going to add extra levels.
I would be happy to work with you.
I could not be in a Homeland Security hearing without expressing, again, my appreciation to all of the National security team, including our...
I would like an equal opportunity for those persons who have been very nice and informative witnesses to reach out to both sides of the aisl...
It would be unacceptable to have anything less than the highest standards for our nuclear power plants.
I strongly disagree with this direction.
You expect us as Members of Congress to basically listen to one side or the other's experts.
