Pat Roberts
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Pat Roberts is a former United States Senator from Kansas, serving from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his work on agricultural policy and national security issues during his tenure. Before his time in the Senate, Roberts served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1997. Throughout his political career, he focused on issues important to Kansas, including farming and rural development. Roberts was also involved in various committees, including the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, where he played a significant role in shaping agricultural legislation.
While the President promised that Obamacare would bring down premiums by $2,500, premiums have actually gone up by an average of 41 percent in the individual market due to the law's mandates.
Obamacare expanded Medicaid, an unsustainable health entitlement program in which 40 percent of physicians, on average, do not even agree to see Medicaid patients.
At the time Obamacare was being debated in this very committee, I warned that it was the wrong direction for our country.
Did you say that you could get a hip replacement for a dog in a week, but you could not get a hip replacement for an individual for X-number of weeks?
27 members of the Finance Committee...wrote to Marilyn Tavenner...to say, 'Whoa. Do not change the Medicare D program.'
No, sir. In the interest of time, I do have a question of the witnesses, but I will wait.
It established the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, an unelected, unaccountable board of 15 bureaucrats empowered to make cuts to the Medicare program most likely in the form of cuts to doctors.





