Jim Gerlach: “Everybody agrees the Medicare payment system is broken.”

The Supreme Court in Raines v. Byrd made it clear that if Members want to assert an institutional injury, the executive's act must effectively nullify a prior act of Congress.

Do you really care about saving the identity and the taxpayer's funds that go into this program?

I am really stunned, too, by the lack of responsiveness by CMS on this issue over the years.

The President, through his actions on the ACA, as well as other areas of executive action, is fundamentally altering the delicate constitutional balance among the 3 branches of our Federal system.