Cutting 13 billion out of teaching hospitals helps them. On the same day that the gentleman did that he voted to cut $45 billion out of Medicare. Did that help the seniors in their Medicare in the same way?
Discussing budget cuts to teaching hospitals and Medicare.
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.
I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'
But these projections have turned out to be incorrect. And since the passage of the ACA, Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased, and the premiums have decreased.
It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.
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