Joe Pitts

One in five trauma deaths may be preventable or, in other words, about 30,000 people might be saved every year.

Trauma is the number-one cause of productive life years lost, greater than cancer or heart disease.

We will hear from witnesses on ways to address our trauma and emergency medical systems.

One of our main challenges in addressing emergency and trauma care is leadership.

Today's hearing is an important discussion that will examine the areas where we can improve our national trauma system.

The recent events in Orlando, Paris and San Bernardino remind us of the very real threat of mass casualty events.

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.

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

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

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.

The goals of the ACE Kids Act are laudable--to improve the delivery of, access to, healthcare for children with complex medical conditions served by Medicaid.

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

So it is your view that giving states flexibility on grace periods and age bands, while tightening the special enrollment periods, could lead to lower costs for families?

Current law is leading to an increase in health care premiums.

More government bureaucracy, regulations, and spending never successfully reduce the price of health care.

The first thing health reform should accomplish is to stabilize or reduce the cost of health care.

Health care is the most personal of any political issue. When Congress gets involved in health policy, we are changing people's lives.

Current law is leading to an increase in healthcare premiums. Double-digit premium increases are hurting, not helping patients.

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We therefore must always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve and adapt to changing cybersecurity threats and realities.

This is an obvious conflict of interest.

In today's digital, connected world, cybersecurity is one of the most important, most urgent problems that we as a society face.

It seems a major part of the problem is the organizational structure in place at HHS that puts information security second to information operations.

We, therefore, must always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve and adapt to changing cybersecurity threats and realities.

In today's digital connected world cybersecurity is one of the most important, most urgent problems that we as a society face.