Joe Pitts

This bipartisan bill builds upon our previous work to modernize our biodefense systems, ensuring that we are well-equipped to handle current and emerging biothreats.

Today's hearing will take a closer look at bipartisan legislation introduced by our Energy and Commerce Committee colleagues Representative Brooks and Eshoo, H.R. 3299.

Incentives are necessary to attract private investment in product development, and so too must the contracting processes be efficient.

However, the health and well-being of seniors is nothing to be experimented with.

Congress should not ask seniors to pay 20 percent of increasingly expensive therapies without due consideration of whether their money is being well spent.

This proposal is so far reaching and has caused so much concern it is difficult to imagine any meaningful conclusions can be drawn.

These major changes would take place as early as July and on top of the current implementation of MACRA.

What happened to the transparency in regard to stakeholders that we expect when considering proposals of this magnitude?

Government bureaucracy and rules can never hope to contain costs.

The Affordable Care Act is not the health reform this country needed.

The number one complaint people have about health care is the rising cost, and yet the ACA has done nothing to decrease health care spending.

Through a variety of incentives, MACRA encourages physicians to engage in activities to improve quality, patient experience and outcomes and reduce costs.

MACRA seeks to consolidate, streamline and integrate these efforts into a single program.

Today's hearing is a sequel to our Health Subcommittee's earlier review of the implementation progress of the Medicare payment reforms as included in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015--MACRA--which repealed the…

We need to make sure that the rules are paid attention to.

Today's hearing will provide an opportunity for our two subcommittees to examine the issues related to the ongoing drinking water crisis and related public health effects in Flint, Michigan.

Many were interested in finding a solution, but not until the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) was enacted--with overwhelming bipartisan support in the House and Senate--did we finally achieve reforms for…

I say `historic' because as my colleagues know well, we worked over many years to address the problems associated with the SGR.

I stand ready to work with anyone on any of these options to start addressing this crisis because I think I simply can't, I just don't think we can afford to wait any longer.

It is important we learn from failed ideas of the past.

If the long-term care challenge is left unaddressed it will impact the elderly who require services.

Unfortunately, too few Americans are currently prepared to pay for even a modest amount of long-term care whether through insurance or savings.

We want to see each person treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

We have opened an investigation in the Office of Civil Rights at HHS to investigate. We take this seriously.

This action by California is a direct violation of the Weldon amendment, which your Department is tasked with enforcing.