Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to care and quality of care. Very serious issues, and then finally let me cite the i like to thong the as the Public Trustees in exile. Former trustees who wrote a paper before they saw the report yesterday but made a very important point, which is that delaying action on medicare fiscal challenges, until a crisis is imminent, which too often has been congress approach, would not only have adverse impacts on beneficiaries but would severely restrict the remedies available to address the problem. Wait
Nothing keeps you absolutely safe. Thats the unfortunate fact of life. We are live this morning as the medicare board of trustees is meeting to look at what Congress Plans to do on medicare and medicaid coverage. This is live coverage. Its just getting underway. My name is joe and im in Health Care Retirement policy at aei. I will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. Perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook as they said in their summary, a major concern has to do with the growth of Health Care Innovation which has positives and negatives. The positive is that with modern technology and modern techniques we are able to address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we have in the past. While most technological advances have tended new the Health Care Landscape is shifting. No one knows if it will inkrocre or decrease costs. Let me also sight a critical point that the truste
Good morning, everyone. Not much going on in healthcare policy these days, is there . My name is tovar, im Vice President for Health Policy at the center for American Progress and i have the pleasure of introducing congressman pallone whos been a leader in protecting the integrity of the medicare guarantee and of the medicaid program. Making the nations food system saver, strengthening laws to keep our air and water clean, making health care more affordable and accessible and supporting initiatives that advance and protect public health. Mister pallone is the Ranking Member of the house energy and Commerce Committee which has jurisdiction over issues pertaining to energy, environment, commerce, telecommunication and healthcare. Theres a lot on his plate. From 2060 2014, congressman pallone served as top democrat on the Committee Subcommittee on health and is chairman during the 111th congress, Mister Pallone played a key role in authoring and passing the Affordable Care act so its a go
Good morning, everyone. Not much going on in healthcare policy these days, is there . My name is tovar, im Vice President for Health Policy at the center for American Progress and i have the pleasure of introducing congressman pallone whos been a leader in protecting the integrity of the medicare guarantee and of the medicaid program. Making the nations food system saver, strengthening laws to keep our air and water clean, making health care more affordable and accessible and supporting initiatives that advance and protect public health. Mister pallone is the Ranking Member of the house energy and Commerce Committee which has jurisdiction over issues pertaining to energy, environment, commerce, telecommunication and healthcare. Theres a lot on his plate. From 2060 2014, congressman pallone served as top democrat on the Committee Subcommittee on health and is chairman during the 111th congress, Mister Pallone played a key role in authoring and passing the Affordable Care act so its a go
Medicares longterm fiscal conditions. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Everyone. Rning everyone here and everyone on cspan to the American Enterprise institute. Were having a discussion today about the Medicare Trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the Medicare Program but also the longterm outlook. My name is joe antos. And i will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. The perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook, as they said in their summary. A major concern has to do with the growth of health care innovation, which has its positives and negatives. The positives, of course, is with modern technology and modern techniques were able to cure or address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we could have in the past, but as the trustees say, while most health