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We must work to improve health care quality, access, and affordability – but we can achieve these necessary reforms without raising taxes, imposing individual mandates, or allowing a government takeover of health care. The American people deserve to be in control of their personal health care choices.
As the senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I have a number of priorities that I am working to achieve in the 113th Congress. I will be working to defund as much of the President’s bad health care law, commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” as possible. This includes defunding portions of the law such as the medical device tax, penalties on businesses, penalties on individuals, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), and others. I am also working to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and advance a permanent solution for the long-troubled Medicare physician payment system.
Other priorities include examining ways to provide states with more flexibility to manage Medicaid programs, continuing efforts to ensure America remains the leader in medical innovation, and working towards modernizing and strengthening Medicare for future generations.
- Why “ObamaCare” Should Be Repealed
- Replaceing "ObamaCare"
- Mandate Delays & the IRS
- 113th Congress Legislation I support to repeal “ObamaCare”
- 113th Congress - Committee Hearings to provide "ObamaCare" Oversight and Accountability
- 112th Congress Legislation I supported to repeal “ObamaCare”
Protecting Home Health Care for Seniors and the Disabled
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Tavenner, Medicare Part D Letter (03/19/14 04:36 PM PST) - Protecting Home Health Letter (02/19/14 01:46 PM PST)
- Rep. Hall sends letter to House Leadership requesting the postponement and evaluation of CMS Prospective Payment System rule in order to protect home health care. We must stand up for our seniors they are valued members of our families and communities, and they need good care. I will continue to fight the CMS until this devastating rule which would effectively put approximately 43 percent of all Medicare home health providers out of business is overturned. About the Rule: The Final Rule unnecessarily rebases payment rates at the maximum cut permitted under the Affordable Care Act: a cut of -3.5% per year over each of the next 4 years, totaling an unprecedented cut to Medicare home health funding of 14% by 2017. CMS acknowledges that approximately 43 percent of all Medicare home health providers will be paid less than the cost of care by CY 2017. No previous Medicare rule has ever had such an impact on nearly half of a health care sector.
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