anyone to lose coverage. in fact, just days ago, president-elect trump promised, quote, insurance for everybody. but congressman price, your own proposals would cause millions of people to lose coverage, force many people to pay more for their care and leave people with pre-existing conditions vulnerable to insurance companies rejecting them or charging them more. so i will be very interested in hearing your explanation of how you have your plans to how we would keep the promises your party has made to the american people about their health care. medicare is another issue i will be interested in hearing about today. president-elect trump campaigned on promises to protect medicare and medicaid. you have said you plan to overhaul medicare in the first six to eight months of this administration in a way that would end the guarantee of full coverage that so many seniors and people with disabilities rely on.
if you check with the office of government ethics you will find a list of certified financial disclosures. these are the reports they have gone through and signed off on for nominees. at the top of the list are the most recent nominees from the incoming administration. steve mnuchin is there. elaine chow is there. congressman price is. betty devos is not on the list. her investments, her financial forms haven t gotten that certified stamp of approval from the office of government ethics. they are apparently still working on it, and yet there she was tonight on capitol hill testifying in front of the senate health labor committee. they don t have a full report on her finances and her financial vetting. that s unusual. not unheard of but unusual.
negotiates drug prices. in our country, the drug companies can raise their prices. today they can double their prices. there s no law to prevent them from doing that. will you work with us so that medicare negotiates prices with the pharmaceutical industry? you have my commitment to work with you and others to make certain that the drug pricing is reasonable and that individuals across this land have access to the medications that they need. wasn t quite the answer to the question that i asked. congressman price, the united states of america is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. canada does it. every major country in europe does it. do you believe that health care is a right of all americans whether they are rich or they are poor? should people, because they are americans, be able to go to the doctor when they need to, go into a hospital because they are
did the damage and created all this risk. i know that the president-elect has said that after you are confirmed, which i hope is fairly early in february, that he will propose a plan to congress. i look forward to that plan and i know you can t tell us what that plan is today, but i do look forward to hearing from you how you suggest we approach this. we want to do this right. we want to sequence the events carefully and adequately so that americans have concrete, practical alternatives in place of what is there today. and we want to make sure that the parts of obamacare that are repealed are replaced before the repeal becomes effective. senator murray. thank you very much, chairman alexander, thanks to all our colleagues joining us today. congressman price,
the policies that i ve promoted and will continue to promote our absolutely incorrect. we all share a concern for the american people in how we best nick certain that they have access to the highest quality care that the world knows. and so i hope, and i understand why he s doing it, this is a political activity, i understand that. but i hope that we are able to work together if i m given the privilege of leading and serving as the secretary of health and human services, to truly solve these difficult challenges that we have in our nation. congressman price, isn t it true that by the date of may 15th every year since you ve served in congress you have had to make full disclosures of everything you ve owned, everything your wife owns, what it s worth, when it was acquired, and what it was sold for? every single year we do a yearly financial disclosure in the house and it requires a monthly periodic transaction form that updates that if there is any dignity can change. isn t it tru