second is improving medicare. anyone who turns 65 can tell you how overwhelming it can be to understand and enroll. and making poor decisions can hurt you. through higher costs, coverage gaps and even lifetime penalties, and we support the bipartisan benes act introduced by syndication which aims to simple for enrollment. thank you for your leadership. continued funding for a low income benefits outreach involvement and full funding for the medicare state health insurance assistance program are critical. chips provide local counseling to medicare beneficiaries, their families and caregivers. americans want help navigating life after 65, and that's why ncoa developed our own innovative approach called aging master program which we call in. and it brings to get our best knowledge into a fun and engaging program that gets the news the pathway to age well. more than 10,000 seniors have graduated so far. so in conclusion, aging well means making informed, deliberate choices. at ncoa we offer tools and solutions to help

senate 109 to allow pharmacists to build medicare. pharmacists are not the greatest need in every case but they are central to a lot of this, too. chronic ork with disease management and dozen members of this committee. there were mr co-sponsors of this legislation. the chairman is not here. and i i am hopeful to work with me and senator wyden to help all of you with the challenges you deal with. thanks senator roberts. senator wyden: i wanted to tell senator brown to work with him. ecause as usual he is going to going. so we have been at it for almost 2 1/2 hours. you all have been terrific, but what i'm struck by is i don't think we have mentioned over the course of 2 1/2 hours which is really the backbone of lurel health care from sea to shining sea and that is rural health clinics. and i'm heading home. we have 83 of them in my home state. i know, ms. martin, you have an significant number. n my home state, these rural clinics are literally the backbone of health care, where are seniors go and people go for preventive screenings a

second is improving medicare. anyone whose turn 65 can tell you how overwhelming it can be to understand and enroll and making poor decisions can hurt their higher cost, coverage gaps and lifetime penalties. and we support the plan. thank you for your leadership your continued funding for low income benefits outreach enrollment and full funding for the medicare state health insurance assistance program are critical. safeguard local in-depth counseling to medicare beneficiaries their families and caregivers. americans want help navigating life after 65. that is why we developed our own innovative approach called aging mastery program. which we call candidate it is a fun engaging program that gives seniors a pathway to age well. when the 10,000 seniors have led to the aging lemmings informed deliberate choices. at nco eight we offer tools and solutions to help seniors do just that. we look forward to working with the committee to have more resources to help people navigate life after 65. thank you. >> madam chair, r

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i'm interested in the medicare wage index. hospitals at the higher cost structure get more and if you will the more get more. it seems as if under current law you are based upon your geographic area rural hospitals in my state cannot compete with the urban hospital because of medicare policy which tells them urban hospital we will give you more. if you are a nurse you will offer -- you tend to go where you go more. the current policy does not have a floor or ceiling in place for an adjustment in which the cost of wages is comparable when reimbursing providers and so, as i just said, urban hospitals get more rural less. i guess i can ask many of you this question. doctor, does the lack of a medicare wage index frankly give up perverse incentive for the urban hospitals to keep increasing wages and to make it harder for a rural hospital in louisiana or iowa or tennessee to compete and be able to keep that nurse who lives close to home home. >> senator, we have done research on the various rural designations that congress has crea

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i am interested in the medicare wage index. in which hospitals with a higher cost structure get more. if you will, the more get more. now it seems as if under current law based upon your geographic area, were hospitals in my state cannot compete with the urban hospital because of medicare policy which tells the urban hospital we are going to give you more. obviously if you are a nurse and you have to decide where to work, you tend to go where you would earn more. the cost of current policy does not have a floor or ceiling considered when reimbursing providers. as i said urban hospitals get more rural rest. i can ask many of you this question. but doctor pink, does the lack of the floor with the medicare wage index frankly give a perverse incentive for the urban hospitals to keep increasing wages to make it harder for louisiana iowa or tennessee to compete who lives -- to keep the nurse who is close to home home? >> senator we have done some research on the various rural designations that congress has created. there are some of

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, the best price rules that medicare gets essentially. >> medicare or medicaid. >> medicaid. that's 23% discounts or the best price of the market. >> or the lowest price on the private market. >> you would change that how? >> well, sure, you could have a higher flat rebate that basically provides that least same amount of revenue to the states through the medicaid program or providers who benefit from that and negotiate better pricing in the market that could help drive overall prices down, so, we've been operating under this for a long time and it's probably to relook at it. >> so, part of what that is, if the market is trying to move back towards the value based and the shift in the supply chain. right now, if a manufacturer agrees to say, okay, 50% of the time our drug is going to absolutely work and 50% of the time it might not work and you will not have to pay, you will pay zero, we will sends you your money back, for the people it doesn't work with. if it does as much as 50% of the time you immediately run afoul of medicaid best price. the cheapest price in the market,

so often in medicare and medicaid. now, in using -- if i were to be given that authority probably the single biggest countervailing pressure we have is of course integrity and ensuring program integrity through telehealth that we don't see abuse. i think so many of the rules that we have are some bad provider did something so you put a rule in place. obviously we have to do it with respect to the taxpayer program integrity, but i would want to be very forward leaning here on implementing any authority to, again, penny wise, pound foolish. use telehealth, expand the network of providers, expand the reach to communities, really help in rural and frontier communities and lower the cost of care. i'm with you on this one. >> thank you. i think reaching veterans, reaching people in rural communities, helping with the opioid crisis, asthma, psychiatric, psychological treatment, all of it can be done through telehealth and i think the transformation in our society is that if ten years ago you were instructed to interact with y

an expansion of the medicare program needs to make sure the integrity of the original medicare medicare program is left intact. this is about making sure our seniors have access to affordable healthcare and even expanded healthcare. making sure that people who are not in the age category to get medicare have healthcare two. we have a lot of people in communities across the country who are 45 - 55 years old without access to healthcare, or quality healthcare. we tried with the affordable healthcare to make sure everybody has coverage. we can do this as a country. we can cover everybody with good quality, affordable healthcare, we can do this. other countries do it, we can do it in a uniquely american way. there is no way in this country with the kind of wealth we have that people should not get the kind of healt healthcare they d. >> host: i want to test but you work on the appropriations committee. your the ranking member on the legislative branch committee that oversees funding for congress. what is a cost nearly $5 billion. to keep congress running? >> guest: our bill covers a lot. we

this year, cms will release medicare advantage and counter data to research for the first time. the data is not perfect, but we determined the value research can provide far outweighs any concerned we may have about the quality of the data. we look forward to the inside academic researchers and private investigators can arrive to. we are not stopping there. we are also going to be releasing medicaid and children's health insurance program data in 2019. together, these sets will represent millions of patients, billions of care encounters, and trillions of dollars in spending. it coulde fundamentally change how patient interact with the health care system. anide each finding, there is opportunity for a provider to rethink how they deliver care, or a business opportunity for a payer, or startup to better coordinate it. silicon valley has been begging us to give them that. now we look forward to the insight it will reveal. access -- unique aspects of the data is the sheer scale that lets us understand health care in not ways previously possible by looking at narrower populations. a

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center murphree and i entered is to build a said let people choose the medicare bill a medicare policy if they want, public option. we created an option that cut it in half. they cut the cost of care in half. why not allowed to choose medicare option? >> the challenge is that we are ready have sustainability issues for senior citizens. >> i'm gonna cut you off there. isn't that program separate? this is the money that they spend they could choose a better option i think the citizens overwhelmingly like to see that they could have this choice on the exchange or enable employers to choose this. >> in i can be able to afford medicare without subsidy. >> will stop there. you obviously haven't read the bill or you would not say that. this is a standalone competition parallel to the way we do it in oregon look for things that are market-based that actually work is speaking of that, the medicaid blocker and strategies this would cut $2500 for recipient and organs. we have one of the lowest rates in the country we have a low rate that care has dropped dramatically there at least a far better t

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medicare and medicaid. last week, cms took action on both of those. it's been a busy couple of weeks. cms released more than 1000 comments whee received from stakeholders. while this new direction will involve collaboration and close consultation with stakeholders, we are going to think big and bold. wengside these comments, also released new requests for information regarding provider contracting with medicare. generatedts have tremendous interest from patients and providers. they can offer the opportunity for seniors to receive convenient, accessible primary care from a position they know at a predictable and affordable cost. --ter access to primary care we look forward to consulting with all of you on how this and other proposals might work. these will be significant steps representing the kind of fundamental rethinking of provider compensation that may help us deliver value. direct provider contracting proposal also reflects our interest in reducing burdens on providers. especially those that may be imp

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this is where medicare can play a role. as we drive price transparency. we have this evidence. the private sector has taken the lead in many places. we can play a role. cases, is the scale of our programs. we may be standing in the way of change and innovation. we unveiled the new steps in the driveed pbs rule to greater transparency. we have proposed hospitals he required to post charges on the internet and in a machine-readable format rather than being required to make them publicly available. we know it is going to require going further than this. we included a request for information. a number of other transparency issues. how can we address the issue of surprise billing? that ought to be a fundamental right. we want your input on the best ways to get there. two areas of emphasis are pioneering new models and removing government burdens that impede coordination. we took action on both of those two. it has been a busy couple of weeks. released more than 1000 comments that we received from stakeholders regarding a new direction for the centers for medicare and medicaid renova

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very successful form of single payer that we've been under for quite some time there has been a few medicare expansions in the last few decades and they have worked miraculously you know one of the things that most people have fought for to maintain as part of the cia was the medicare expansion and that's what people were calling the representatives who are regardless if they were public and or if they were democrat unfortunately for mcclintock this is something that he's going to have to get onboard with he wants to expand company competition in the market but that hasn't worked in fact that just gives more power to health care and pharmaceutical companies to really take people for everything that they have and that is not ok with me and under his plan to repeal the a ca he wanted to take medicare away from over seventy thousand of his constituents here and district for sara if you let to you would be one of the younger members of congress is health care a pickle for people your age. absolutely it is so when i was in college actually i didn't have health care i had to sign on for student he

and medicare. now, we need to do something about social security and medicare. that's the only way you can find room to pay for it. i don't know a whole lot of people in the top one tenth of 1% or the top 1% relying on social security when they retire. i don't know a lot of them. maybe you guys do. so we need a pro-growth progressive tax code that treats workers as job creators, not just investors. that gets rid of unprotected loop holes like stepped up bases and raises enough revenue to make sure the social security and medicare can stay, still needs adjustments, but can stay.

hospitals that is not medicare any longer. cancer or diabetes or heart disease and chronic pulmonary disease, all of these chronic conditions and what my colleague has done and i am so appreciative is to say with medicare guarantee it isn'te a voucher but guarantee of basic services. but senator markey and i and others from both political parties have come along to say give people more care at home let's expand the role of telemedicine so with other small towns in america you can have access to these technological marvels we don't have a specialist. make no mistake, chairman pai is looking out the trouble for for world healthcare because they like so many of the people that they serve the will see the prospect and they will pay more in many cases for them. i look forward to working with my colleagues and listening to his remarks. >> president trompe winter meeting on undocumented immigrants.

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