I would ask you to submit that for the record, and how do you anticipate how the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services intervention in these negotiations to improve the program.
Michael Burgess
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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American politician and physician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Burgess has focused on healthcare policy, leveraging his medical background to inform his legislative work. He has been involved in various committees and has advocated for issues such as medical research and veterans' healthcare. Burgess has also been a vocal supporter of conservative fiscal policies and has participated in discussions surrounding healthcare reform.
With the health and safety of the American public at risk, we can't leave the job only half done by not adequately funding FDA to fully implement this important law.
You need to be prepared to work with this committee to mitigate the damage that is going to be visited on America's health care system and the American people.
I think the problems of the past dictate to us that there are going to be significant problems during this first year of Healthcare.gov.
I think our providers are the ones who are truly at risk from your mismanagement of this problem.
How in the world can we expect people across this country to trust this Administration when they have been continually told that everything will be ready, and in fact it was not.
If I were the Secretary, I would have fired you, and that would have happened in October.
I simply do not understand why no one has been held accountable for an error that egregious.
This thing is a disaster, and the providers are going to be the ones who take it on the chin.
It appears to a lot of us that you are going to be needing and sending taxpayer dollars in order to handle this problem of the risk corridors.





