HealthLeaders Media October 23, 2019
WASHINGTON — CMS Administrator Seema Verma faced serious castigation in her first appearance before the Democrat-led House.
The Wednesday hearing of an oversight subcommittee for the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, entitled “Sabotage: The Trump Administration’s Attack on Healthcare,” also saw the agency’s leader respond to questions with answers that were short on details.
In her opening remarks, committee chair Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) stated that President Trump has been trying to “dismantle” the Affordable Care Act since he took office, and took Verma to task for supporting those efforts.
DeGette pointed out that under the Trump administration, and for the first time since the passage of the ACA, the number of uninsured in the U.S. has actually gone up:...
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