Medicare has been on the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list continuously since GAO began designating programs as high risk in 1990.

These are necessary and non-negotiable costs that we all want to encourage health plans to incur.

We obviously failed in both those respects when it comes to the ACA and as of February 15th of this year when CMS announced it would suspend enrollment in PCIP.

I'm pleased to speak on behalf of my friend Mr. Smith's sensible legislation to help rebuild communities destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Federal assistance is intended to make communities whole; and if we leave behind ruined houses of…

Mr. Miller, there are a number of new payment reform models being developed, and as policymakers, we obviously can't incorporate all current possible future models into one piece of legislation.

Thank you, Ms. Mitchell.

the SGR is unsustainable, unreliable and unfair, so the question remains, how do we fix it.

As policymakers, we obviously can't incorporate all current possible future models into one piece of legislation.

the newer members of the committee on both sides of the aisle have a lot to offer with regard to the SGR

I very strongly believe that physicians deserve to be fairly and appropriately compensated for the important work they do.

Congress has acted to override these statutory cuts on at least 15 occasions, and the cost of these overrides has been staggering.

However, within a short time, it became apparent that this policy was flawed.

The Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR payment system, originated with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

The most recent 1-year extension override comes at a price of $25.2 billion.

The greatest threat to health care access over the next decade is concentrated in primary care services.

Today's hearing is an attempt to move us closer to that goal.

I would like to include in the Record CBO's cost estimate for H.R. 225. The cost estimate was not available when the committee filed its report on the bill. I urge all Members to support this important legislation. With that, I yield back…

I urge Members to support this legislation. It has tremendous bipartisan support, and, with that, I yield back the balance of my time.

I ask that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the Record. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania? There was…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Harper).

At this time, I yield such time as he may consume to the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton).

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers), the prime sponsor of this legislation.

I have no other speakers. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation. It has strong bipartisan support. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. I urge support for this bipartisan legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

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