Joe Pitts: “We should be encouraging seniors to take control of their healthcare and expanding this proven program.”

I applaud the cosponsors for working through the committee to address serious stakeholder concerns by taking a new approach in the draft we are discussing today.

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.

A recent Institute of Medicine report released just last week estimates that one in five trauma deaths may be preventable.

Medicaid already provides a critical safety net for providing care for some of our youngest and most vulnerable patients.