Sen. Murray Opposes President Trump’s Proposal to Let Insurance Companies Ignore Pre-Existing Protections, Award Bigger Executive Bonuses
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"I believe there are opportunities here to help reduce health care costs by reducing complexity, while maintaining quality and safety for patients. We know the current administrative system is fragmented, with different federal, state, and private protocols for things like billing, measuring quality of care, and more, so I'm interested to hear from our witnesses about ideas to simplify and align requirements, while maintaining protections that ensure patients are getting safe, quality care and service."
"Unfortunately, with this Administration's focus on sabotaging families' health care, efforts to raise health care costs have become par-for-the-course...He slashed investments to help people understand their health care options and get covered. He pushed a partisan tax cut bill that meant lower rates for massive insurers and drug companies and higher premiums for families. He handed the reins back to insurance companies by looking for ways to make it easier to sell junk insurance that dodges patient protections like those for people with pre-existing conditions, women, and seniors. He abandoned patients in the court of law by having his
"And now many of us are concerned
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"Thank you
"I'm glad we are continuing our discussion on health care costs--an issue I know families in
"And I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today about the way administrative costs fit into this larger picture.
"I believe there are opportunities here to help reduce health care costs by reducing complexity, while maintaining quality and safety for patients. We know the current administrative system is fragmented, with different federal, state, and private protocols for things like billing, measuring quality of care, and more, so I'm interested to hear from our witnesses about ideas to simplify and align requirements, while maintaining protections that ensure patients are getting safe, quality care and service.
"Unfortunately, instead of pursuing policies to address high administrative costs,
"In fact, the
"An analysis from the
"I think we can all agree we should be looking for steps to reduce administrative costs to make health care more affordable--and this idea from
"Unfortunately, with this Administration's focus on sabotaging families' health care, efforts to raise health care costs have become par-for-the-course. From day one,
"So President Trump decided to sabotage health care from the
"He dramatically cut investments to help people understand their health care options and get covered. He pushed a partisan tax cut bill that meant lower rates for massive insurers and drug companies and higher premiums for families. He handed the reins back to insurance companies by looking for ways to make it easier to sell junk insurance that dodges patient protections like those for people with pre-existing conditions, women, and seniors. He abandoned patients in the court of law by having his
"And now many of us are concerned
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"And I also hope they will come back to the table to work with us on legislation that can bring down health care costs, because I know that's what families across
"Thank you."
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