Any matters that would present any potential conflict. Chairman hatch do you know of any person or any reason, personal or otherwise, that would in any way prevent you om honorably discharging the responsibilities to the office to which you have been nominated . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch do you agree without reservation to respond anyreasonable inquiry reasonable summons to appear and testify before any nor any duel constituted committee of the congress if you are confirmed . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch you are willing to do that . Ms. Verma i am willing to do that. Chairman hatch ok. Finally, do you commit to provide a prompt response in writing to any questions addressed to you by any senator on this committee . Ms. Verma i do. Chairman hatch thank you. Let me now get into just some questions. I know you are aware of the historic bipartisan medicare access and chip reauthorization called i whats macra. Among other things the law got rid of the dreaded s. G. R. Formula
Any matters that would present any potential conflict. Chairman hatch do you know of any person or any reason, personal or otherwise, that would in any way prevent you om honorably discharging the responsibilities to the office to which you have been nominated . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch do you agree without reservation to respond anyreasonable inquiry reasonable summons to appear and testify before any nor any duel constituted committee of the congress if you are confirmed . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch you are willing to do that . Ms. Verma i am willing to do that. Chairman hatch ok. Finally, do you commit to provide a prompt response in writing to any questions addressed to you by any senator on this committee . Ms. Verma i do. Chairman hatch thank you. Let me now get into just some questions. I know you are aware of the historic bipartisan medicare access and chip reauthorization called i whats macra. Among other things the law got rid of the dreaded s. G. R. Formula
Im devoting next two hours to this. Im asking people to email me. What do you think stuart is doing on the farm . Im already getting responses. Thank you very much, great show as always, my friend. Were on top of this new vetting order, whatever you call it. Stuart touched on it, more issues preoccupy administration, congress, to say nothing who knew what and when tapping phones and all of that. Neil it is distraction for markets who fear it will lead to delay, if not outright denial of something they have been waiting forever since the election of donald trump back last november. That is those tax cuts, those cuts in regulations. Prominent ceo telling me only yesterday, he is convinced that the more this drags on, the less any of this stuff looks likely. Is he right . Well explore that. Guess calling it a vetting order, minus one country. What is the latest on this. They are, neil. Reporter take a step back. Consumed. White house staff having to talk about this throughout the morning.
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
Awaiting the start of this forum on Health Care Costs to get underway. It will start in just a moment live here on cspan2. We told you about many so of the programing on cspan2 today. Over on cspan Hillary Clinton and former Vice President al gore will be appearing at a Campaign Rally in miami. Live coverage of that getting underway at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Then tonight we have live hourlong interviews separately with third Party President ial candidates. You will hear from libertarian gary johnson. He starts at 8 00 p. M. The green partys jill stein. She is after that at 9 00. Well take your phone calls and tweets to the candidates. 10 second warning. On behalf of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University i want to welcome you to this important discussion about the effect much rising Health Care Costs on economic mobility and economic wellbeing. My name is bill beach. Im the Vice President of policy research at mercatus on behalf of the scholars and the staff welcome to this great