850 formally submitted comments. In december of 2015, the working Group Released a comprehensive document. In october of last year we issued a legislative discussion draft. Soon after that we finalized four of our policy proposals in its 2017 medicare physician fee schedule rule, and twon provisions from our discussion draft where included in the 21st century cures act which president obama signed into law this past december. In other words, sefrlt working groups policies have already been enacted and were working to get rest signed into law fully implemented. Toward that end, we introduce the latest version of the chronic care act, the bill that encompasses the working groups proposals in april. The legislation currently has 17 bipartisan cosponsors and has been endorsed by numerous organizations in the Healthcare Community. Today, is the latest step in our in our efforts. The next step will come later this week, as weve noticed a markup for thursday morning. I want to thank my collea
850 formally submitted comments. In december of 2015, the working Group Released a comprehensive document. In october of last year we issued a legislative discussion draft. Soon after that we finalized four of our policy proposals in its 2017 medicare physician fee schedule rule, and twon provisions from our discussion draft where included in the 21st century cures act which president obama signed into law this past december. In other words, sefrlt working groups policies have already been enacted and were working to get rest signed into law fully implemented. Toward that end, we introduce the latest version of the chronic care act, the bill that encompasses the working groups proposals in april. The legislation currently has 17 bipartisan cosponsors and has been endorsed by numerous organizations in the Healthcare Community. Today, is the latest step in our in our efforts. The next step will come later this week, as weve noticed a markup for thursday morning. I want to thank my collea
Bipartisan working group. To work on legislation to dress these issues. That working group spent many months listening to stakeholders. In october last year we issued a draft. Soon after that, weve finalized a fee schedule role and two provisions from our discussion draft were included in the 21st century cures act which president obama signed into law this past december. Several of the working Group Policies have already been enacted and we are working to get the rest signed into law. Toward that end, we introduced the latest version of the chronic care act, the bill that encompasses the working group puzzles in april. Legislation currently has 17 bipartisan cosponsors and has been endorsed by numerous entities in the health your community. Today is the latest step in our efforts. The next step will come later ais week, as we noticed marked up for thursday morning. I want to thank my colleague, ranking senator wyden for his matter. This his work has been a driving force behind this ef
The chairman and i talked about trying to reorganize communications. This week, we got rob neighbors to agree to come over to va, and he is going to be our leader of communications. So, under rob were going to have a congressional communications, communications with the vsos, external and internal communication. I want it integrated so were saying the same message. Thats not in an attempt to centralize. We talked about decentralizing so you can go to the subject Matter Expert and get the answer and it doesnt necessarily immediate to be cleared with one tip of the funnel. I think what has happened in the past is the organization has done that, theyve made everything go through one person, and when you do that, it obviously backs things up. And everybody should be capable enough to be able to answer, and i could ask your indulgence, you have to realize if you got a wrong answer, it may be temporary or may be incommence, but the person incompetence but the person is not trying to deceive
And Michelle Carusocabrera with signs of worry, and weve got a big debate this hour on global risk versus global reward. Thats 14 minutes away. First sue at headquarters. Thats right, im in the house. We start this hour with new data on the most important asset for many, if not most, americans. Their homes. Existing home sales ticking up for april. And diana olick is on the case for us in washington. Hi, diana. Reporter hi, sue. And thats right, existing home sales did move up in april. Thats the first monthtomonth move we saw all year, but were not quite out of the woods yet. We know existing home sales up in april 1. 3 month to month, but theyre still down about 7 from a year ago. Regionally much of the nation was unchanged, but the west did see a nice bump up higher. That may be because it began to correct first last year, so it may be beginning to improve for us this year. Sales, though, in the west still down 10 from a year ago. Lets talk about inventory and price because theyre t