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Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to...

Questions. Thank you. Chairman issa, Ranking Members cummings, members of the committee, thank you for an opportunity to be here. Cms strives to be as responsive as possible. I understand that we have already provided over 140,000 pages of documents to this committee. Transparency is important and thats why im pleased to be here today and have the opportunity to answer your questions. We will continue to produce documents. In the almost five years that ive had the privilege to work at cms, my focus has been on how we can best serve our beneficiaries, including seniors on medicare, adults and c...

Of the team to make those decision, its very difficult as a thirdparty partner participant to make that kind of assessment without the actual knowledge and data. As a former businessman, i would say that a site that couldnt accommodate a few hundred people simultaneously signing on and people waiting for weeks or months, security wasnt the reason that that should not have launched, but i appreciate that youre here on security today. The gentlelady from new york, a place where i. T. Comes first for many of her constituents is recognized for five minutes. Thats true, true of the west coast, too....

Knowing that the upcoming november Enrollment Period is coming for millions of americans, who will be shopping on the exchanges, how prepared are you to take these 28 recommendations and others to assure protection . Yes, maam. Let me start with the 22 technical recommendations. 19 of those have been resolved or mitigated or will be further reviewed prior to open enrollment. So those will be handled. Of the six other recommendations, were in the process of either completing have completed those, or will complete those prior to open enrollment. And based on the 19 that youve identified, miss ta...

District of columbia whose decided to expand medicaid. And obviously, if you look at a lot of independent studies, theres noticeable difference in the states that have decided to expand medicaid, in terms of lowering the number of uninsured. Were going to continue to work with those remaining 20 something, and we meet with them on a regular basis to do what we can to encourage folks to expand. By not participating, arent the states leaving billions of federal dollars on the table that could be used to improve the health of their own citizens . Yes, sir. They are. And its also has economic cons...