CSPAN3 Health Human Services Secretary Testifies On Presidents 2023 Budget July 7, 2024
finance committee will come into order. today, the committee meets with secretary becerra to discuss the year ahead for the department of health and human services. there is much to cover. i will begin with telemedicine. this committee began to open the door at telemedicine in medicare with a landmark chronic care act, authored with senator hatch in 2017. then in 2020, we shoehorned tele-health services into the cares act. in implementing the law, medicare decide to telehealth audio only on a temporary basis during the pandemic. that has been met with wide open arms from people acros...