Political Quotes

“I rise on behalf of my colleagues, Senators Harkin, Alexander, Casey and Isakson to submit the following statement for the Record. On October 30, 2013, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee unanimously reported the Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, S. 1557, out of Committee. On November 12, 2013, the Senate passed S. 1557 by unanimous consent. This legislation is the product of years of bipartisan negotiation, a process which resulted in broad Senate support for the Act. The list of original Senate cosponsors for S. 1557 demonstrates this point. This list includes Senators Casey, Isakson, Harkin, Alexander, Blumenthal, Blunt, Brown, Kirk, Murphy, Reed, Roberts, Warren, and Whitehouse. Prior to the enactment of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education, CHGME, Payment Program, there was significant disparity in federal graduate medical education, GME, support between adult teaching hospitals and children's teaching hospitals. In 1998, children's hospitals received less than 0.5 percent of the level of federal GME support that adult teaching hospitals received. In the 2001 final rule for the CHGME Payment Program, the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, wrote, ``The intent of the CHGME Act is to create parity in GME payments among all hospitals providing GME.…”