They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you receive when you sign up for your own insurance. It basically tells you what is or is not covered and is or is not eligible and basically, what the Insurance Company will and will not pay for, but for us, it listsous what services are eligible to the inmates and which arent and it puts everyone on the same Playing Field because the inmates understand which services will be covered and which ones are n
Of the team to make those decision, its very difficult as a thirdparty partner participant to make that kind of assessment without the actual knowledge and data. As a former businessman, i would say that a site that couldnt accommodate a few hundred people simultaneously signing on and people waiting for weeks or months, security wasnt the reason that that should not have launched, but i appreciate that youre here on security today. The gentlelady from new york, a place where i. T. Comes first for many of her constituents is recognized for five minutes. Thats true, true of the west coast, too. I just want to note that this is the committees 29th hearing on the Affordable Care act and the sixth on the website. Oh, come on, please. I want to focus on some very positive things. And thats the cost growth is slowing to historic lows and that was one of the huge challenges that we confronted k the whole time that ive been in congress, is the just the whopping cost in health care in our coun
About. Really get five minutes and it took up the balance of his time to explain the concern of the cadillac tax and im hearing about that at home as well. It is yes or no, ms. Tavenner will you undertake to review to rethink that to engage those with whom you work to rethink that and maybe go back to the drawing board warda cadillac tax and to make a work for all americans. The president has been clear he would be willing to work with congress to make improvements. Thankyou for that. In the unguarded moment in the statements that he considered to be a false lead but among them is the adn that Health Care Spending in this nation is the lowest increase in 50 years. I was surprised would you comment on that, ms. Tavenner . Based on the Health Care Expenditure report last week that our office did it is the lowest trend of Health Care Spending it is one of the lowest of 2013. And expenditure is that the alltime low. There is not a lot that is refreshing to talk about aca and recrimination
And medicare ad mministrator is always testifying. The hearing is four hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair will be authorized to declare a recess at any time. The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. First, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them is well spent. And second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. It is our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. This is and has been our mission for four years that ive been honored to serve. Miss tavenner, before i begin with my Opening Statement i want to make you aware in hopes that your people will delive
Of the law, but i did not provide any official scoring well, you have stated the aca was written in a tortured way so that the cbo would not score it as a tax. How did the administration use your information to write the aca in a tortured way so that cbo would not score it as a tax . Once again, i apologize for my inopportune and inappropriate terminology. They did not score it as a tax, right . How did you do it . How did you get cbo to not score it has attacks knowing that at some. You might have to get to a Supreme Court to say it was . How did you do it . I dont run cbo, i did not draft the legislation. What does cbo stand for . Congressional budget office. What is scoring . Quest a message to five the method by which the Congressional Budget Office estimates the effect of legislation on the federal budget. You have said that you wrote part of obama care yourself. What parts did you right . If i said that it was once again an effort to see more important than i was. Why would you s