This is a bit of a followup to chairman shelbys question. The acts require you to publish rules for public comment, review rules for impacts on Small Businesses consider less burdensome alternatives reduce paperwork burden. Youre also currently undertaking the agrippa process. Question is this. A couple question and if youd just start and work your way down. Do you think your agency adequately takes into account the cost and benefits of the rules you write, what impact would additional analysis requirements have on your ability to implement new rules. Might some of these proposals actually stop rule making in its tracks or slow it down so the burden is too great to move forward . Ms. Everly begin with you, please. Okay. Well, we certainly do try to carry out the cost benefit analysis. Up our policy on rule makings, we consider the cost the benefits and alternatives based on available data. We ask a lot of questions during the rulemaking process to garner the impact on institutions, and
Activities and what steps youre taking with other federal officials to pursue these matters. Okay. Well, first of all, again, i cant really speak to the specific matter that is under investigation, but i can tell you with regard to hsbc we have three, weve entered into three formal enforcement actions, consent, cease and desist orders, and those related to compliance. Activities and one related to Compliance Risk management in general. So we have been, obviously, working on issues with the firm related to compliance generally. I will say that in any situation, wlr theres an investigation, if we have evidence or we are provided with evidence that there is a violation of law or breach of safety and soundness based on activities and especially those that might involve tax evasion, take that very seriously, we would favor certainly moving forward and firmly committed to talking any appropriate sanctions or penalties that would accrue from the outcome of that work. Is there as you know very
We need to set the polics up for success by providing stability. Moving toward a 35 year end date would better enable to committee to conduct proper oversight and consider changes over time. In addition, we look to make changes to some of the policies and more importantly we look to offset the cost associated with both extenders we must not cross on to patients who rely on the programs. I want to highlight some of the extenders and how they help the medicare and Medicaid Programs. This isnt a long list, but they are ones i would like to urge the committee to extend. One is the qualify for medicare that assists Medicare Beneficiary by covering the cost. It helps produce burdens and improve access to needed Health Care Access to lowincome people who dont qualify for medicaid. In new jersey 49,000 people were able to get this assistance. Another is the tma program that allows them to stay on medicare for a year once their income changes. It allows for consistent access to primary care. I
Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that market out of the 267 on the elderly americans who have coverage from all sources. As interesting as this discussion will be remembered that it applies to about 7 of americans with coverage. We are pleased to have the Commonwealth Fund a century old philanthropy to establish a commonwealth and we are pleased to have as the moderator the Vice President for federal and state Health Policy somebody with a
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