The regular meeting for wednesday, february, 15th, 2017, i would like to remind the members of the p you believe that we do not tolerate any disruption and please silence your mobile devices and when speaking before the commission, state your name for the record. I would like to take the roll at this time. First on the agenda, it is general Public Comment, within the subject matter description, with respect to agenda items it will be afforded when it is reached, each member may address the commission for up to three minutes,vy no speaker cards. Does any member like to speak on a nonagenda items. Seeing and hearing none we will close comment. That will place us under the department matters, directors announcements. Mr. Fry is not here at the moment, so maybe we will reopen that later. Sure. We will move on to commission matters. Yes. Very good, commission matters item three, president s report and announcements. Item four, consider of adoption for the minutes arc july, 20, and the draft
Strategic effort to end upsetting the ground work for an ability, a more welcoming attitude toward free trade in the sense that from his peoples voif the United States is not that competitive. Weve got immigration, which drives down the wages, you can make the argument whether you agree with it or not or the multitude of those who are dispossessed and a tax structure who does not make economy attractive for investment therefore being able to generate fewer jobs than usual and youve got a horrendous regulatory increase over the last decade or two which makes it difficult for business to prosper, to tell you the truth. Some industries worse than other. Make america first, make america more competitive and now we can participate in trade agreements. We have gotten rid of dysfunctional policies. I would disagree on immigration, there are some sectors where you do see a wage lower impact but more broadly i couldnt disagree. You know, it includes thinking about inputs which ii havent heard f
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
All right. We are going to introduce our last panel of the day that we have saved the medicaid discussion for our last even though as you see in each one of the panels medicaid comes up. It is sort of the elephant in the room in the current debate. Carrie young, our associated editor at cq news for health care, is going to be moderating the panel. We also have diane roland, the executive Vice President of the henry j. Kaiser foundation, meg murray whos the chief executive officer for the association for Community Affiliated plans, jessica shumel senior policy analyst on the center for budget and policy priorities. And brett guthrie, Republican Congressman from kentucky. Welcome. So we are all very interested in medicaid these days including whats going on on the hill. Probably to save time and allow more time for questions well start by going to each panelist to talk about what you see happening with the current attempts to change the aca and get a new bill up there. I think that the m
All right. We are going to introduce our last panel of the day that we have saved the medicaid discussion for our last even though as you see in each one of the panels medicaid comes up. It is sort of the elephant in the room in the current debate. Carrie young, our associated editor at cq news for health care, is going to be moderating the panel. We also have diane roland, the executive Vice President of the henry j. Kaiser foundation, meg murray whos the chief executive officer for the association for Community Affiliated plans, jessica shumel senior policy analyst on the center for budget and policy priorities. And brett guthrie, Republican Congressman from kentucky. Welcome. So we are all very interested in medicaid these days including whats going on on the hill. Probably to save time and allow more time for questions well start by going to each panelist to talk about what you see happening with the current attempts to change the aca and get a new bill up there. I think that the m