You have described to a degree, but if you could elaborate can you describe how you will prioritize and oversee the larger range of issues for which you will be responsible. Tell us, what in your history has prepared you to lead the department of health and Human Services. Tom price thank you. As you and members know the mission of the department of health insert health and Human Services is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People. In order to do that, i am committed to that mission. In order to do that you have to put together teams of individuals in east each sector of health and Human Services. My history of where ever i was or the work i did in communities was just to bring forward greatest quality of talent that we could assemble. The second is to understand the scope and the issues. Clearly having the experience both in the clinical arena as well as the legislative arena you can understand the scope of issues. Finally, focusing on results. Often times
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished, excuse me, well, i want to call it the oversight Investigation Committee room which is sometimes used by energy and commerce, and what a but beautiful room. It is more conducive to the good hearing. This is the the first one of the 115th congress and welcome here, and welcome in the Witnesses Today. This is the and welcome back to my friend and colleague Ranking Member from colorado. This is our Medicaid Oversight Committee on existing problems and ways to strengthen the program. We are convened to examine a critical component of the Affordable Care act, medicaid and medicare expansion. It covers over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of the Health Care Spending in the United States. In 2015 alone, the federal taxpayers spent over 350 billion on medicaid and the costs continue to rise each year according to the congressional budget office, and the shares are expected to rise significantly in the coming the decad
President , you and your team have shown me great courtesy in this process. And he entrusted me with the most solemn assignment. I respect, too, in our legal order it is for congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply not alter the work of the peoples representatives. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge. Stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. California senator Dianne Feinstein is the top democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee. Shes expected to aggressively crossexamine the nominee during the hearings he especially beca of the fact that the obamas nominee garland never got a hearing. Chuck schumer, a democrat, tweeted gorsuch put corporations over workers. Hes been ideolog ideologue, so that is a hint of the battle to come. Analysts say gorsuch is just to the right of scalia on the conservative spectrum. Gorsuch will go through a tough Senate Judicial hearing, and thats expected to
Gorsuch to fill the ninth and final seat on the Supreme Court. Good evening, thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. This could be one of the longest lasting acts of the presidency. Justices often serve until their deaths. Kristen sze with what to expect. Neil gorsuch is the youngest nominee in a quarter century. If confirmed he could shape our nation for decades to come. Gorsuch has served on the 10th Circuit Court of appeals in denver for more than ten years, attended Harvard Law School with former president barack obama, in fact, before getting his ph. D. At oxford. Hes had prestigious clerkships including for retired Justice Byron white and anthony kennedy. Gorsuch is originally from colorado but spent years in washington. His mother was actually head of the epa for Ronald Reagan before being forced out because of a toxic waste cleanup scandal. Will replace justice Antonin Scalia, a man he looked up to and paid tribute to. As for how he would rule gorsuch
But the congress and the government created a situation where the states are rewarded for cutting traditional medicare which deals mostly with children and people who are in greater need and that because of that disincentive or incentive to spend it on the new folks, the newly found undermedicaid, under the new categories, we create the situation where states have to make a decision as to whether they quicken the shortage on the waivers, get rid of the waivers as fast as they can or spend money somewhere else. Is my understanding correct . Yes, theres both direct and indirect outcomes as related to expansion and my point is that we are not fulfilling the promises to the most vulnerable in our society, wait list or not, but we are making new promises to an ablebodied population that does not qualify for longterm Welfare Benefits and states in a situation where they have to make very tough decisions and making cuts in reimbursement rates that directly impact those with development, disab