Best practices within the ihs system itself and shared those and incense vized the ability to move that kind of activity that is providing highquality care for individuals in that system, in certain areas, and making certain that were able to extend that across the country in the ihs. Okay. We look forward to working with you on that. I think Best Practices is a good place to start. Obviously, those have not been employed in a lot of facilities in our state. In 2009, cms issued a final rule that required all Outpatient Therapeutic Services to be provided under direct supervision every year since then. The rule has been delayed. Either administratively or legislatively in small and rural hospitals. I shared this with you as well. In my statement we have a lot of critical access hospitals, rural areas, big geography to cover, and sometimes difficult to get providers out to these areas. So, the question is, if confirmed, will you work to
charge of some of these issues in a way that remove
on any other day, we would have been this would have been the lead story because republican president went after republican elected officials today on twitter. first he said the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems in 2018. he named names. put all the names of all the folks. he said all of these people, paul labrador, jim jordan, they would need to get on board or we would have both great health care, massive tax cuts and reform. that was to bakari s point. then on and on. you can put his tweets up. so, he is putting his own party on notice, grover. we spent a lot of time together. what do you think of this strategy? 90% of a republican caucus in support of a trillion dollar tax cut, matched with more than a trillion dollars in spending in the repeal of obamacare. you got block granting medicaid
we spent a lot of time together. what do you think of this strategy? 90% of a republican caucus in support of a trillion dollar tax cut, matched with more than a trillion dollars in spending in the repeal of obamacare. you got block granting medicaid which is building on the success hillary clinton had with block granting families with dependent children. it s a very significant reform what he s doing is talking to the members of the freedom caucus. calling the very people out who got him who helped to get him elected? i mean, those are the people who put him over the mark. over the line. the three guys he mentioned? yeah, the people helped the constituents in those districts helped donald trump. donald trump is talking to his voters. i was meeting with the pro-life people, unhappy with the freedom caucus s decision to undermine the effort to defund planned parenthood. they re going to be talking to their constituents as well because there s a very important
on the patient. this is going to lower premiums but at the same time they re taking away essential funding mechanisms. taking away the taxes which they are not mostly taxes on middle class people. they re taxes on rich people. they re taxes on medical providers. at the same time, they are block granting medicaid. what is that? that s code for we re cutting it back drastically in terms of what the federal government is providing. that s a sticking point for moderate republicans. exactly. how do you take away the funding mech inform and, by the way, these insurance companies are going to magically give you cheaper insurance. kasie hunt is joining us, popping up right after that news conference from paul ryan. give us some context here. what is the biggest takeaway, the big messaging push for the day. i think the takeaway for today is the role that the white house is going to play in selling this. and just how committed is the president to making sure that all of this works? it so
of the budget committee, controlled by your party, you put out a budget document and you said over and over again that you favored block granting medicaid. in fact, your budget in 2017, that you were the chairman of, that you want to run away from today as if it never happened, and that s what i can t figure out why. you re going to be influential, what you really believe matters. you want to run away from that. you cut medicaid by $1 trillion in your 2017 budget. and yet today, you want to stand on some notion that, well, whatever you guys do is fine. and that s just not reality. congressman, what s reality is you ve been chosen because of your beliefs. and your beliefs are reflected in your budget that you wrote as chairman of the budget committee. what i that s all the point i m trying to make. can i respond? i have a hard time understanding why you won t say,