Rep. Pallone Speaks at Full Committee Health Care Markup
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"Let me quickly note the seven Medicare related bills that passed out of Subcommittee unanimously and have bipartisan support. They make a number of different positive policy changes to our Medicare program. These include improving our meaningful use program, increasing our ability to timely treat stroke patients, removing barriers to speech generating devices, providing coverage to critical prostate cancer testing, expanding home-based primary care and strengthening our competitive bidding program for diabetes patients. We also will update civil and criminal penalties in the Medicare program, an important component to ensuring the integrity of the program.
"Now, I'll get to the contentious legislation. First is IPAB. My feelings on this board are no secret. I have never supported ceding our Congressional authority to the executive branch and am on record in opposition. But I'm upset by the timing of its consideration by this Committee and troubled by the hypocrisy of
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"So today instead of marking up a bipartisan package -
"I simply cannot support this partisan attack on the ACA and Medicare. It's my hope that following this misguided approach we can come back together and find a better way forward."
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