prior to services cms mr. is so they served as a chief counsel to the benefit exchange for.ry much appreciate you coming in before the committee today and your written statement will be entered into the record. you may now proceed with as much time as you need. >> thank you chairman graves ranking member velazguez and members of the committee. i am pleased to discuss the many benefits. the affordable care act is transforming the insurance market for small employers making it easier for them to find and purchase employee health coverage that serves the needs of their employees. and it is affordable. it is important to remember that the reforms that are in the affordable care act some of which have gone into effect and the remainder will go into effect with plan years beginning january of 2014 are not limited to the s.h.o.p.. we have transformed the entire small group market for the products are purchased inside the s.h.o.p. are outside the s.h.o.p.. i want to talk about that because i think they're sometimes confusion that in order to benefit you have to buy a product from th

cms, no, no. he was elected. he should have been on top of this right from the beginning. and that's the issue i keep getting at. you're chief executive, mrent, not just chief of staff or chief of state. >>> next, giving credit where credit is due. >>> this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ baby crying ] [ mom ] be right there, baby. [ muffled noises ] oops. ow. sorry. [ baby crying ] ♪ [ female announcer ] new pampers. unlike ordinary diapers with 2 layers, pampers have 3 absorbent layers, to stay up to 3 times drier, so babies can sleep soundly all night. ♪ wishing you love, sleep and play. pampers. >>> back to "hardball" and time for the sideshow. with this congress trying to be one of the least productive in modern history, it's no surprise that it has a 13% approval rating. and now it seems some mens would rather pass the buck instead of passing bills. here's jon stewart's analysis of that last night. >> now you might wonder which political party bears more responsibility for not getting anything done. the party that's more responsible might be the one that defined its mission thusly. >> we should not be judged on how many new

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mr. baker, yes or no. is it correct been in 2094 passage of aca to cms paid medicare advantage is, planned $14 billion more than the same care had been provided under traditional care? yes or no. >> yes. >> this averages to about $1000 per beneficiary's? yes or no. >> yes. >> additionally, ms. gold. in 2009, met that report found that medicare breitbart was 118% of that medicare would spend. is that correct? >> yes. >> ms. baker and ms. gold, is it fair to say the reforms made by aca were intended to align medicare advantage payments with traditional medicare payments? yes or no. >> yes. >> despite claims made by some of my colleagues, these reforms have not run medicare advantage. in fact, the program is strong and growing. earnings are doing fine. salaries, dividends and bonuses and all those other good things to the companies and officers participating or enrolling. mr. baker, how many people are enrolled in medicare advantage toda correct, yes. >> is it correct that medicare advantage enrollment has increased 30% from 2010 to 2013, yes or no? it seems like they are doing pretty well, doesn't it? now is

mr. baker, yes or no, is it correct that in 2009 before passage of aca the cms paid medicare advantage plans$14 billion more than at the center been provided under traditional medicare? yes or no? >> yes spent in the end of this averages out to about $1000 per beneficiary, yes or no? >> yes. >> now, additionally am a ms. gold, a 2009 medpac report found that medicare advantage payments benchmark was 118% of what medicare would spend, is that correct? >> yes. .. correct, yes. >> is it correct that medicare advantage enrollment has increased 30% from 2010 to 2013, yes or no? it seems like they are doing pretty well, doesn't it? now is that correct be average but a care beneficiary will have a choice between a team pla plag the favorable to them in 2014, yes or no? >> yes. >> the affordable care act has not resulted in a drastic increase in the number of plans available to seniors who choose to participate in medicare advantage nor as it decreased the number of people participating in the program. is that correct, yes or no? i note that it's provided many benefits to this population and will co

mr. anybody's attention, and i feel there is a much politics behind this that he keeps getting buried. guest: that is very concerning. you say you work for a private contractor that is administering cms' call lines. if so, if i understand you correctly, that is a classic situation where you may have information that could be very .aluable it is laudable that you could go to the office of inspector general in cms could you may want to obtain the consultation as far as whether a qui tam case would be appropriate are not. one thing that is important about the false claims act is that it allows you to go to the justice department. the justice department administers the false claims act. the agencies, while they are clients of the justice department, and the justice department will consult with them, they play an independent role in making sure that fraud is rooted out, even if there has been bottlenecks at some of the agencies. host: the source provision for filing a suit. guest: you have to understand the public disclosure provision in the false claims act. this goes back to 1986, where congress is concerned that they not have a plethora of cases, where somebody just reads about somethi