You cannot have a pool of just sick people in the insurance plan and have the sick ones out here waiting for the day when they can run in and get their insurance.
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McDermott explains the necessity of an individual mandate in health insurance.
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Thanks to MACRA, we have set Medicare on a more sustainable course that will allow us to pay for volume in health care--or excuse me, value in health care, rather than volume.
I know it is election season and we have to have hearings like this. I am not sure--I don't know if this is on CSPAN or not, but it is a good time to get some footage of you defending something or other for your campaign commercials.
Getting the people covered by health care is one thing. Controlling the cost is another thing, and this is about controlling the cost, and I don't believe we have our arms around it yet.
the buck stops at your desk, more or less, is how it would be put in Harry Truman's terms, correct?





