second is improving medicare. anyone who's turned 65 can tell you how overwhelming it can be to understand and enroll. and making poor decisions can hurt you, through higher cost, coverage gaps and even lifetime penalties and we support the bipartisan benes act introduced by senator casey which aims to simplify enrollment, thank you for your leadership. continued funding for low income benefits outreach enrollment and full funding for the med tear state health insurance assistance program are critical. ship s provide counselling to medicare beneficiaries, their families and caregivers. americans want help navigating life after 65 that's why ncoa developed our own innovative approach called aging mast erie program which we call amp. amp brings together our best knowledge into a fun engaging program that gives seniors a pathway to age well more than 10,000 seniors have graduated so f far. this means making informed deliberate choices. at ncoa we offer tools to help seniors do that. we look forward to working with th

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

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

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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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

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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

, 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,

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we're running for congress and we're seizing our power back you are both outspoken advocates of medicare for all and that is pretty much the opposite of what rosa's opponent recommends the store to individuals. the financial means and the wide range of choices to put their families back in charge of their own health care for example instead of all of the tax advantages we give to companies to impose plans on their employees when we give those same tax advantages to the employees so they can go out and choose the plan that best meets their own needs that they can take from job to job and they can fire for it no longer serves your needs rosa i am on medicare and i love it the system processed over a billion claims last year but do the numbers work would we be better off if people in their thirty's forty's fifty's people too young to enroll under the present system could buy into medicare. well you know the program itself as it stands there's going to be a lot of no not just expansion but we're going to have to strengthen the program so that it works for every single person medicare itself

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of the original medicare program is left intact. this is about making sure that our seniors -- not only our seniors have access to affordable health care, even expanded health care -- but making sure that people who are not necessarily in the age category yet to get medicare have health care, too. we have a lot of people in communities across the country that are 45, 50 years old i don't have access to health care , or any kind of quality health care. affordable care act, we try to make sure that everybody has coverage. republicans have repealed that. we can do this as a country, cover everybody was good, quality, affordable health care. we can do this. other countries do it. we can do it in maybe a uniquely american way, but there is no way in this country with the kind of wealth we have, that people should not be getting the whole care they deserve. host: did not want you to go without asking you about your work on the appropriations committee. the ranking member that oversees funding for congress. 500 --s it cost nearly $5 billio

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

. $435 billion in cuts to medicare. and about $1 trillion in cuts to medicaid. that's in the budget that every single republican senator voted for last year. so that is not aligned with what voters want. they don't want to see their medicare costs go up. they don't want to see their prescription drug costs go up. so bottom line, i think people are very focused on these pocketbook issues right now. >> and just to follow up briefly -- [ inaudible ] moving forward on things like cutting medicare, or is there something specific about prescription drugs? >> so both. i mean, we've been very clear that we will strongly oppose the efforts to cut medicare and cut medicaid. because, you know, millions of seniors depend on medicare. and when it comes to medicaid, i think, you know, the country learned a lot more during the debate over the affordable care act about how medicaid is important to people in nursing homes, it's important to people with disabilities. it's important to kids with disabilities. so, yes, we will fight those

center murphree and i entered is to build a said let people choose the medicare bill a medicare policyif 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 th

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