Christopher Shays: “But they won't have to negotiate a plan every year, and it won't be unique to that business. It will be a plan that will…”

“But they won't have to negotiate a plan every year, and it won't be unique to that business. It will be a plan that will have been negotiated by the American Health Benefits Plan. You know, I look at this trend line, and I see that we're looking that in the year 2016, we would be spending $4 trillion. But what will we be spending in the year 2020? And this is without doing what we need to do, which is to reform the system. And so what we have done is we have established a commission, and the commission will be of nine members, the chair and vice chair, as well as two other members who will be chosen by the comptroller general. The President, the majority leader, the minority leaders of the Senate and Speaker, the minority leader of the House will choose one representative. And the commission shall examine and make recommendations regarding the major issues and cost drivers affecting the delivery of health services as it pertains to the American Health Benefit Program. Within the legislation, we specifically are directing the commission to examine a comparison of the American Health Benefit Plan to other public health insurance programs, the proper implementation and utilization of electronic medical records and other health information technologies, including privacy and interoperability issues.”