This amendment could take away the bill for the rest of the way. Mr. President , i yield the flol floor. We are working on a version of the healthcare bill theyve been talking about today and i know my colleagues are going to try to say they are projecting and want to ensure people with preexisting conditions so they dont have to pay through the nose, but i think the president called the house version of this attempt a very mean therell, and i think the original senate bill was just as mean if not meaner and a number of people that were cut off of medicaid over the period of time to be left without access to care. Todays bill also includes an amendment or a package of ideasi by my colleagues from texas and utah, a provision that allows intruders to sell junk insurance to the markets as long as they offer at least one plan that is real insurance and they could also offer if bunch of plans that are not really insurance. , that is they could cover just one or two things into yes they woul
What are your key moments of this weeks confirmation hearings . Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independence can call 2027488002. Reach us on social media, on and at facebook. Com cspan. The busy week on capitol hill included action on obamacare as republicans moved to repeal that measure. According to the Washington Post Congress Took the first that on rolling back the Health Care Reform law friday with the house voting along party lines to pass the crucial precursor to the Affordable Care acts unraveling. It will only get harder for republicans as they must assemble a viable replacement for a law that expanded healthcare Insurance Coverage to about 20 million americans and eliminated unpopular Insurance Industry practices such as Lifetime Coverage caps and widespread refusal to cover already sick individuals. Republican leaders have focused on the Affordable Care act flaws , rising premiums for plans sold in state marketplaces, high deductibles, and burdensome tax
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
Capitol hill. Gao officials and health and Human Services Department Inspector general testifying in a hearing that just got under way, house subcommittee, hearing about potential areas of fraud and abuse in the 2010 health care law. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan 3. Welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses and we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average increase in premiums just this year. Some americans have experienced even higher premium increases and had to drop coverage because it became too darn ex