Max Miller

The Commission appreciates the opportunity to discuss improving care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.

The Commission has been concerned for many years that FFS Medicare does not incentivize or facilitate comprehensive care coordination.

We do think that the common assessment instrument and what goes on in the IMPACT Act... will do a lot of good.

I believe our view on telemedicine is that it can be a useful tool that providers can use in order to manage a patient's care.

The Army currently has sufficient visibility into industry-directed independent research and development (IR&D).

While it is too soon to say exactly how the newly-formed Electronic Warfare (EW) Executive Committee (ExCom) will impact our Science & Technology (S&T) programs, I would say that our EW and Cyber S&T efforts are already very well…

Clearly sequestration will impact yet again our modernization accounts.

And what we have seen is when the hospital administration makes a concrete commitment to patient safety, it is amazing what you can see.

I have got 20,000 patient days coming up, I can afford to buy the technology that is going to save you 20 to one on your spend.

I think the--I am in support of including more in Hospital Compare data and increasing the penalties on value-based purchasing.

Let us work together to prevent millions of infections and save 50,000 lives a year.

If Congress mandated the proper disinfection of these hospital rooms, we could save that many lives in two months.

Sixty mothers and their newborns, didn't ask for it, all got MRSA. They were fighting it.

The things I pointed to did reduce Medicare's spend

If you don't move broad ranges of the population into these programs, what you get is the sickest

The existence of a penalty probably focuses the attention of the beneficiary

The benefit, as it is designed, doesn't include a catastrophic cap.

The way the Commission has approached this in the ambulatory setting, the principal is, assuming and assuring actually that the beneficiary has access and quality, Medicare should seek the most efficient setting.

It is always an issue when you--I mean, you know, fee-for-service has the issues that I have raised, fragmentation and generation of volume.

The Commission has been on record as saying that, you know, the sequester is not a good policy.

Obviously, I believe it is very important for the Army to have robust funding in our air and missile defense capabilities

We do have a concern, though, that sequestration could have, in the future, negative impacts, and we look forward to any support that you could provide to mitigate or eliminate sequestration.

Yes, the infrastructure itself does need some pretty deep renovations, and it does--it is highly inadequate.

One of the priority issues must be security and how you can secure all of your facilities here.

I think that optimally the space program will begin really ratcheting back up at some point.