Renee L. Ellmers: “One of the issues that I have been working on that is very important to me is access to healthcare services for children…”

I was proud to work with my colleagues on that landmark initiative in order to reduce regulation, inspire innovation, improve outcomes for patients and move our country towards precision medicine.

These disturbing revelations point to a real policy need to address the holes in this vital safety net program and facilitate improvements to care among our nation's most vulnerable.

I think we really do need to put the brakes on this because there are other ways that we can achieve decreasing costs.

While I generally support the bills under consideration today by the Subcommittee aimed at improving Medicaid patient access to care, I very much believe there is a missing component in this discussion.