Sen. Alexander Recaps First Week of Senate Health Care Hearings
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Today, five governors testified - Governor
During his opening remarks at today's hearing, Chairman Alexander said: "We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday - when we had the state insurance commissioners here. We had 31 senators - most of them not on the committee - meet for an hour, and, then, at our hearing, we had 22 of our 23 committee members.
"So, for two consecutive days, we've had half of the members of the
At the end of today's hearing, Alexander said, "It's pretty easy to be for extending cost-sharing payments and that's just more money, and we can argue about how long it will be. But we will have no chance of getting that, unless in addition to that, we have some restructuring of the market. Part of which could be with making Section 1332 work better. That's an opportunity to do that. And the reason I'm emphasizing that, and I think there's generally a consensus about that, is it's already in the law, so it's easier for people to accept on the Democratic side, who approved the Affordable Care Act and so if we're fixing it, that's easier for them to do.
"But to get a Republican president and a
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