Gene Green: “There is broad consensus on the need for improved quality measures across the post-acute care setting.”

These numbers are troubling as we are because even more acute when you look at the existing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities.

Neither these bills nor the Committee's other efforts have gone far enough to address many of the underlying challenges facing this sector.

The 9-1-1 system was clearly overwhelmed--and was not nearly robust or resilient enough to tackle the volume of calls.

Maternal mortality in our country has more than doubled between 1987 and 2014, from 7.2 to 18 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.