Phil Gingrey: “I cannot believe that the individual healthcare consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a…”

I want to thank Chairman Murphy for holding the hearing, educating members of the subcommittee on the impact of the Obama Administration's continued, and make no mistake about it, war on coal is what it is, is having on local communities.

If this administration has the authority to implement changes within the Medicare program that could prevent billions in lost funds annually and it is not using them, I believe, Mr. Chairman, that the administration owes us an accounting…

Let me first commend Chairman Upton and our colleague from Colorado, Ms. DeGette, for spearheading this bipartisan endeavor.

Would you please help the committee to understand how citizens from the State of Georgia will be benefiting from higher costs and a lack of competition on these exchanges other than to dole out Federal subsidy money by self-attestation?