The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
That mandate equal coverage for physical and Mental Health care. Mental Health Care Providers testified about difficulties in implementing a federal health care parity law. This hearing of the house energy and subcommittee on health is an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, if youll take your seats, well start. The subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to make a note that members may be filtering in and out throughout the hearing. Unfortunately, the condensed september session, there are a number of scheduling conflicts this morning. But we wanted to be sure to have this important hearing before congress recessed at the end of the month. With that being said, chair recognize himself for an Opening Statement. Todays Health Subcommittee hearing will examine the federal Mental Health parity laws and regulations. In 2008, Congress Passed a bill requiring most Group Health Plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of Mental Illnesses comparable to what
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Head wound on social media. Stacey sager has more from us. Stacey. Reporter well, the suspect in this case is 29yearold stanley gray of brooklyn. Authorities now say not only have they recovered his box cutter from the crime scene, they say they also found two steak knives inside his jacket when they arrested him on tuesday. It was a completely random crime and so it strikes fear in anyone who rides the city subways. Authorities say it was tuesday here on the c train in bedford that 29yearold stanley gray took out a box cutter and passengers. One of them, 23yearold matthew ruff, who moved here only a few months ago from florida and now told us he has 28 stitches on his head. Passenger slashed, oneil mendez did your son do this . No comment. The suspects father said nothing on his behalf today. Authorities said plenty. First, they uncovered the box cutter from the crime scene and found two steak knives inside grays jacket when he was arrested. As for his criminal history, Eyewitness New
And Childrens Hospital in philadelphia and saint johns, and i was hoping for a commit beyond the 100 million and i think we are getting Great Results and i will submit a question on that and now that im out of time as well as the treatment of foster care for giving foster parents a specialized training they need to take care of kids that have particular challenges but ill do that by way of a written question. But thank for your testimony and for being here and for your service. Thank you, senator. Thank you mr. Chairman and thank you madam secretary for your service. I would like to in a very short period of time see if we can cover four topics. New jersey and protection and number three autism coverage and number four the midnight rule. So let me first of all, before we go to that, i want to highlight key components of the president s budget proposeal that i believe are critical and important for the in my view the most important part of the population and that is the children and the