Capitol hill. Gao officials and health and Human Services Department Inspector general testifying in a hearing that just got under way, house subcommittee, hearing about potential areas of fraud and abuse in the 2010 health care law. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan 3. Welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses and we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average increase in premiums just this year. Some americans have experienced even higher premium increases and had to drop coverage because it became too darn ex
You said of baghdad he and and Islamic State are now trying to be the new al qaeda, how much indication do you see that out there in lebanon, libya, message ishat starting to resonate. Were seeing an alignment with the United States. Have seen individuals, including influential individuals within some of the either oft state some casesnce or in more affinity for the successes that they have had and tactics. Situation. Ynamic the competition and a queue on the other. A concern we have that perhaps to demonstrate they are the leader they would seek to carry that wouldck establish bona fide. Very dynamic situation. I go back to the propaganda points. We focus on the english language propaganda but they are using propaganda and a range of languages across the region. It is not just focused on u. S. Or western audiences. Obviously an area of grave concern for us so we are watching the situation very closely. Lex thank you very much. Is to be ahe prize local Jihadist Group and attack the hom
Well as we can and one of the areas that you also touched on is making sure that they are workable for this Global Market as well as strong and robust working not only with the chairman on these, i have the benefit of his prior rulemaking but our International Counterparts but totally committed to getting them down. The point was made that the resources are getting pretty thin. Is that the satisfaction at the sec . Its absolutely the case. We can talk the talk here about how you are going to get things done, how important and critical but if we dont provide you resources you cant get it done. I very much appreciate that. Also i think we have to be focused on once these rules are finished we have to implement them and enforce them and that takes resources. Let me shift quickly gears u[ because weve talked whats already on the table, you got to get done, some of my colleagues suggested other things you should be interested in. One of the issues is Cyber Security, madam chairwoman. You ha
Companies should be required to cover overthecounter Birth Control because they dont do that now. A couple of things. One, i see this becoming more common in many different races. You see colorado and North Carolina in particular. A couple of senatorial candidates. I think that the fact that the left has reacted so loudly shows you that its working. I think they realize this is no longer a tactsic they can use. They can no longer caricaturize our position. When i originally offered this idea, we were following the recommendations at that time, the recent recommendations, of the medical societies themselves. The doctors themselves think this is a safe product, should be offered over the counter. Two things. One, allowing the product to be offered over the counter doesnt stop a woman from being able to get the product with a prescription through her doctor, therefore it would still be covered. Some of the democrats are trying to attack these Republican Senatorial candidates saying the In
Well as we can and one of the areas that you also touched on is making sure that they are workable for this Global Market as well as strong and robust working not only with the chairman on these, i have the benefit of his prior rulemaking but our International Counterparts but totally committed to getting them down. The point was made that the resources are getting pretty thin. Is that the satisfaction at the sec . Its absolutely the case. We can talk the talk here about how you are going to get things done, how important and critical but if we dont provide you resources you cant get it done. I very much appreciate that. Also i think we have to be focused on once these rules are finished we have to implement them and enforce them and that takes resources. Let me shift quickly gears u[ because weve talked whats already on the table, you got to get done, some of my colleagues suggested other things you should be interested in. One of the issues is Cyber Security, madam chairwoman. You ha