Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on Markup of Hargan, Malpass, and McIntosh Nominations
Let me begin,
The
At this moment, the American public and most of the
What's worse is that my good friend, Chairman Hatch, the leader of the committee of jurisdiction for healthcare reform, is being cut out, our committee being completely disregarded, as this charade continues.
Under Chairman Baucus, with Ranking Member Grassley, the
An American voter would expect, for example, that if provisions of this bill harmed people in
That is not to be. The Chairman has been bypassed. This is a political process on Trumpcare that makes the House look positively transparent.
The public has seen the House-passed version of Trumpcare, and that bill has gone over with the public about as well as prolonged root canal surgery. But now that the bill has come to the
Let's find ways to inject more competition into the insurance markets. Let's bring down drug prices. Let's update the Medicare guarantee to reflect the care seniors need today and in the future, particularly those with chronic conditions like cancer and diabetes. That's where our focus ought to be on a bipartisan basis, and those are issues Chairman Hatch and members on both sides of this committee have shown great interest in tackling.
But instead, Republican are leading their members down a radically partisan path. The public can only guess at the details of what's being drafted behind closed doors -- how many millions will lose insurance, how many hundreds of billions of dollars will be slashed from Medicaid, how much each special interest will get for their silence, how massive the tax breaks will be for the very wealthy.
It's impossible for us to evaluate a nomination for the number two spot at HHS without viewing it through that lens. So I will be unable to support
Next,
That means rejecting partisan approaches like reconciliation, and it means reaching out to the opposite party in
I want to thank Chairmen Hatch and Grassley for speaking out against the administration's stated policy of ignoring inquiries from
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