I tell you, nobody is jumping in with any other answer. You know, this is the part that just drives me crazy.

America is facing a mental health crisis. One in five Americans live with a mental illness, and for Medicare beneficiaries, it is one in four.

For those--for that cohort, people over 65 people, with preexisting conditions, immunocompromised, they still have to act as though the pandemic is still going on, in terms of protecting themselves.

Regulators need to strengthen bank oversight, and Congress must reinstate stronger rules.

I tell you, nobody is jumping in with any other answer. You know, this is the part that just drives me crazy.

Majority Study Findings: Medicare Advantage Plan Directories Haunted by Ghost Networks.

So look, what we are really saying here is that it is in the financial interest of these Medicare Advantage plans to discourage beneficiaries from accessing care.

So that is one way it is to the advantage of the Medicare Advantage plan, in order to be inaccurate.

Okay, so it is a way to defraud consumers, to say you have this really big list of people you could go to if you had a problem.

To help beneficiaries avoid these surprise costs, MA plans are required to publish directories which enrollees can use to find new doctors.

So in its postmortem of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Fed found that legislation passed out of this Committee in 2018, led to weakened rules for big banks that were major contributors to Silicon Valley Bank's failure.

the planet is sick and there are no emergency rooms for planets, and we see the effects in New Orleans, in other places, with climate change just having devastating impacts on communities.

CMS should increase its oversight efforts to audit health plan directories to ensure they hold MA plans accountable.

Bank executives who take on too much risk and crash their banks... should not get to ride off into the sunset with their ill-gotten gains.

Congress needs to put in place tough rules that make sure that executives pay up when their actions lead directly to a bank failure.

Medicare Advantage plans must be required to meet network adequacy standards for outpatient mental health and substance use disorder care.

For too long front-line communities have been disproportionately impacted by the devastating effects of natural disasters.

So look, what we are really saying here is that it is in the financial interest of these Medicare Advantage plans to discourage beneficiaries from accessing care.