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
The hearing will come to order. My understanding is that the democrat caucus has not designated who all the members are. We need to do unanimous consent that all members be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing without objection, so ordered. Welcome to the new congress. If you would like a we have mr. Mitchell and i know a number of other new members will be joining us from the democrats side, as well. So i want to 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 incr
The hearing will come to order. My understanding is that the democrat caucus has not designated who all the members are. We need to do unanimous consent that all members be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing without objection, so ordered. Welcome to the new congress. If you would like a we have mr. Mitchell and i know a number of other new members will be joining us from the democrats side, as well. So i want to 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 incr
One of the things to note on the impact, too, is we are finding that athletes are now failing the impact test on purpose so that their baseline is now lower to start out with. So that if in fact the concussion occurs, they dont have to get back to what truly is their normal baseline. But one that has been fabricated because of choices theyve made during the testtaking. So this is about changing the nature of this injury as well. And really getting people to care about their brains so that they dont make choices like that. And in this case, you mean, that that enables them to get back out on the field. Correct. It takes it takes their baseline and lowers it. So that their results dont have to come back to what is their normal baseline. I see. They wouldnt take that impact until the day after. Correct. Youre doing sort of a quick and dirty on the side lines, to decide whether they can go back in immediately or not. Then you are holding thep out and doing that, you know, check towards bas
Good afternoon and welcome. Im councilman joe pitts. Welcome to the 16th Congressional District of pennsylvania. For your information, this meeting will be streamed live. Cspan is here. So you might want to keep that in mind. But id like to welcome everyone here, especially our distinguished panelists. And i have a short introductory comment to set the stage. Through the 21st century initiative, congress is taking a comprehensive look at the full arc of accelerating cures. From the discovery of clues and basic science, to streamlining the drug and Device Development process, to unleashing the power of medicine and social media the at treatment delivery phase. And this cycle of discovery and development and delivery is what saves lives. And we want this cycle to work effectively and efficiently so theres no gap between the 21st century science and the washington regulatory process. This work will be a collaborative effort which is why we are first listening to experts and involved parti