Believe that everything can be fixed. My former training in college in my graduate work work was an Aerospace Engineer and i hope to become an astronaut but because of my Mothers Health might life took a fast change. I must tell you as a little divergent comment, the pay performance structure we have now in medicare for bonus pay to most physician colleagues i think we can honestly say should he scrapped. We are trained to give our best to our patients. We are paid supposedly to give our best to patients. We shouldnt be doing metrics that have no bearing on the field that we do. In my field of ophthalmology some of the payfor Performance Measures could include something as ridiculous as doing a bodymass index. What does that have to do with the health of the eye or with the eye says about other conditions in the body . Nothing. You are spending medicare money for ridiculous measures. Taking her time in clinical practice to document this for someone who is a statistician who wants to ru
And im glad that i was put in the middle of this because for everything that something good comes of it and that is why im here today. As a Small Business i insured my family and my two employees and i had wonderful insurance. I was pleased with it. It was a Small Business plan and i might tell you a little fact now that you will find surprising. In 2008, just as you said, those premiums raised ridiculous amounts every year. One year was 26 for this great Insurance Plan. I was in sticker shock. It got to the point in 2008 that each individual in my Small Business plan to have a fully comprehensive plan would have cost 859. These are 2008. I did the math and i said, i cant possibly afford this so i contacted my Insurance Broker and i said what are my options . He mentioned the consumerdriven health plans. Not very familiar with it, a little bit leery about the concept, i explored it. It took me two years to sign on however. What i did in those 2008 without the Affordable Care act legisl
Care system that needed to be reformed. The fact is america had an imperfect system developed with a number of public and private forms of money, tremendous , and the like. Crashing it into a wall is not a fixed system. With that, i recognize the gentleman from maryland for his Opening Statement. Thank you for calling this hearing. This week, i had the tremendous honor and privilege of traveling to south africa. As part of our nations delegation to honor the life of the late president Nelson Mandela. It was an inspirational trip, life altering because i have the opportunity to reflect on the amazing changes that one individual, working with determination over a lifetime, can bring to millions of others. There will always be forces aligned against progress, against quality, against basic human dignity. But Nelson Mandelas life reminds us that our mission on earth is to transcend these district to forces and always pursue the betterment of our fellow man. Atraveled back yesterday on 20 h
Postnafta we were doing a tremendous job making something together. We were making pork chops together, but country of origin labeling and impact on livestock trade has dramatically decimated that. Efforts in congress to introduce renewable or a clean energy standard, none of them have passed, not scott mentioned earlier the northsouth flow of the electric grid. But despite that the existence of the grid and existence of the l. Actress degrade trade, the proposals for renewable and clean and g. Standards all would have differentiated between imported and domestic electricity and not given them the same treatment. So a while theres a lot of hope, im wondering how you propose to tackle that . Well, and ill channel Alexander Hamilton and recommend energy to the executive. I think to the extent the president and his administration has an ambitious, active agenda. Congress has a lot less time for mischief and have to deal with so i would encourage the. I think that now is the president push