Subcommittee hearings on investigations will come to order. We are hearing a hearing called sabotage. The purpose is to examine the efforts to ensure quality and Affordable Health care. The chair recognizes yourself for five minutes for an opening statement. Its no secret that the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his very first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act, both, to the maximum extent bylaw. Ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca, and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role, this seema verma has been behind many of the efforts to undermine the Nations Health care. Despite her role in this, is the first time administrator has appeared to testify and an oversight hearing, and we have many questions regarding the administrations actions. Since for double care act was signed into law more,
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Stable genius. Reaction toet your what he had to say on twitter. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 republicans. 202 7488002 independents. Send us a tweet. We will read them. Join us on facebook. Good sunday morning. We will read them. Was begin with the president s tweets yesterday lets begin with the present president s tweets yesterday. Wrote he wrote he the president yesterday on twitter. We want to get to your calls and comments on his description of being a very stable genius. Headline of the New York Times, trump declared himself mentally fit. President trump who sometimes whos a sometimes erratic vior whose sometimes erratic behavior that this morning from the New York Times. Much of this focusing on the new book fire and theory fire and fury by Michael Wolff. Yesterday the president addressing the book and also questions on his twitter comments. Talking about the policy issues. This morning you are tweeting about your mental state. Why did you feel the need to tweet about
Differently. If you are currently insured through the Affordable Care act, inshore through medicaid and medicare and uninsured. Let me begin with the Affordable Care act what has or hasnt been repealed . Hast the only piece that been repealed was the individual mandate. The requirement that must be all have insurance or pay a fine along with taxes. That doesnt happen next year until 2019 so this year the mandate is in effect. I think people are confused about that. The healthelse in law is still there. Host if people vote to , what did they see and what were they able to obtain . Guest they were able to obtain state except every for where there was uncertainty. Say that they dont have any idea what is going to happen. And so they will bow out. To sign upho went were able to find coverage. They did find in many cases that premiums had gone up. However, if you are under 400 gotoverty, those people good deals for complicated reasons we will get into about trump canceling federal payments
If we can understand place where is people think those arent working, we do want to understand that so we can work to improve. The gao shared their methodology with you, and those examples we are waiting for that, correct . We are looking forward to gao coming out with recommendations which is the part that has not yet occurred. Thank you. The president s commitment to Early Childhood education, its reflected in the Budget Proposal 1. 5 billion extra for early headstart and for headstart itself. Briefly, if you can tell us the budget levels and spending caps established by the majority, whats that going to do to the fact that you are trying to build capacity you are trying to stress quality and accountability for providers for these children . And what does that do to capacity . With regard to the levels i think that if you are going the meet those levels and you want to fully fund headstart, what it will mean are dramatic cuts to things like nih or cdc in terms of other places. I thin