So the first you'd heard about this at all or people at CMS had heard about this at all was June 24th or 25th?
First, Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent.
I hope this hearing today is not an attempt to do that.
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court.
You have a tough job in a lot of ways, you know that full well, because we need significant reform.
Is that mechanism in place now?
So, regardless, employers weren't going to report either way?
Such privacy breaches are unacceptable and should not happen at all.
This was not a sudden decision late in June, that the administration thought this was a bad idea, let's delay it.
And that was the plan from the beginning?
Right. I'm talking about just the background of how do we show that this person, once they've accessed data, that data t...