Can Work Together as we go through the Implementation Phase to find out what is wrong with the program and if we can make some changes to fix it. Let us do it and let us do it in a bipartisan fashion. It is too big a program and too important to too many people to do that. Having said that it does appear that it is working. Let us not keep beating a dead horse. My beloved friend who gave us the beginning of our efforts today. Madame secretary, i see reports that consumers receiving plan cancellation notices from their Insurance Companies saying that plans are no longer available. Does the aca require Insurance Companies to discontinue the plans that people had when the law was passed, yes or no . Not when the law was passed. No, sir. Thats the grandfather clause. Thats because the plans existed prior to passage of the law are grandfathered in as you have said . Thats correct. So if an Insurance Company is no longer offering a certain plan, thats because that Insurance Company made a de
Thank you. Gentle ladys time expired. Thank you, mr. Chairman for holding the hearing and thank you for being with us. Last week when the contractors built the system were here, i asked them all under oath if they had actually delivered the system they were contracted to build. And all four of them answered yes. I want to ask you, did the contractors deliver the system that you contracted them to build . I dont think i can accurately answer that question. What we know is weve a system that doesnt function properly. We definitely know that. As we fix things, well know more about what is broken along the way. And ill be able to so would someone in your office know someone oversaw the implementation and they said this is the product we contracted and paid hundreds of millions of dollars to build or wasnt. Does somebody have the ability to get that information . We can say that products tested individually verified individually. But clearly was an integrated system. And dont work well toge
Scenes, and helping them out policywise. What does the house want to do ultimately, because they separated the farm bill from the food stamp bill, and tackle them separately. The houseot know what is going to do, because we have a very factionalized house of representatives. They say keep the food stamps and the farm bill separate raid separate. A lot of the institutions on capitol hill see themselves as them again the world. Against the world. Trying tosswoman is be a good soldier, and the democrats are trying to get a bill through, but they know that the snap program is very important. If they had for different figured out how to bridge these gaps, we would have progress. The house and Senate Conferees are trying to negotiate some sort of deal on what they call on the ground common ground. Does the farm bill get thrown in that . Could be part of the budget agreement, and that is a good and bad thing for the senate committee. It is good because it is part of the bill, but then they lo
Diagnosis, you are 60 more likely to live five years and beyond if you have insurance than if you dont. I think thats a pretty powerful statement for why we need Affordable Health care for all of our citizens. Well, thank you. The republicans have not been able to defund or repeal it, but they have denied requested funding, theyve raised arguments about death panels and socialized medicine, and theyve worked to intimidate groups that could help the implementation effort. Theres a spreading of misinformation about the cost of coverage. We hear some of that today, and to actively dissuade the uninsured from seeking coverage. So madam secretary, how are these tactics impacted your ability to implement the Affordable Care act . Well, i dont think theres any question that a lot of people need a lot of information. I think its one of the reasons we had millions visit the site, try to visit the site. Its why i am so frustrated and disappointed that the site is not fully functional and why im
Switch insurance to keep her doctors due to the fact of the Affordable Care act. Can you imagine receiving notices like this . I can tell you that just in my district the 11th of georgia many more are experiencing this situation. Madam secretary, this is akin to telling seniors that in a few weeks their Medicare Coverage will be dropped or their premiums would double. Now, i know that neither you nor the administration would ever advocate for such a policy, yet here you are subjecting those currently in the individual market to such Government Intervention and i would hope that you would agree with me in recognizing that these increases are a heavy hardship on my constituents, on all of our constituents, republican or democrat. Now ill get to my questions. You know the Health Care Law included a hardship exemption from the individual mandate. Yet the administration has failed to finalize the Application Form for the hardship exemption three and onehalf years after we passed this law. A