Joe Pitts: “I hope that this hearing will not focus narrowly on options that would shift our problems paying for the SGR onto…”

Administrator Slavitt, CMS announced that APTC and CSR subsidies would be ended for 2016 enrollees who received APTCs in 2014 but did not reconcile these payments on their federal taxes.

Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

So, moving forward, the committee welcomes feedback on how we can improve care for children with medical complexity without disrupting the successful approaches already in place.

I urge support for this bipartisan bill, H.R. 5210. I yield back the balance of my time.