House Proceeding on Dec 19th, 2007 :: 1:13:34 to 1:33:34
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Speech By: Robert B. Aderholt

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Robert B. Aderholt: these short fixed programs that we have seen for the last several years. the physicians who serve this nation's elderly population should not be subject to this annual uncertainty. constantly wondering

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whether or not they will be able to afford to see their medicare patients. on the second subject, for months i've supported a long-term extension of the schip program to ensure that children

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country enrolled will continue to have health care services and to allow states the certainty of funding so that they can to enroll eligible children. in the coming months, there should

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be ample opportunity for schip legislation to move through our regular legislative process without the pressures created by a last-minute expiration of the program. i look forward to working

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with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on this bill, which would help put and continue to put low-income children first and continues the purpose of the original program, to serve

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Sam Johnson: the neediest children with health care. as a supporter of the program, it is unfortunate to me that we've not been able to re-authorize it for a longer period of time. but this extension

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Speech By: Sam Johnson

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Sam Johnson: should give us the opportunity to do so in a thoughtful and appropriate process. i would hope to work on these issues in a bipartisan fashion next year, and i would urge my colleagues

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Sam Johnson: to support this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. stark: madam speaker, i'm delighted to yield

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Sam Johnson: two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, mr. emanuel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for two minutes. mr. emanuel: thank you. a lot

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Sam Johnson: of people have mentioned that in fact this extension will cover the children that are presently aren't in the program. that's half true athnd half not true. children in the program will be

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Sam Johnson: covered. if you live in 14 states in the united states, if you live in california, connecticut, washington, d.c., hawaii, maryland, massachusetts, minnesota, missouri, new hampshire, new jersey,

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Sam Johnson: pennsylvania, rhode island, vermont, or washington, kids in those states will actually come off the rolls in august because of the president's executive order. and they will begin in those

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Sam Johnson: states, the government will have to notify those kids and those parents because of the president's executive order. not all kids who are on the program will actually stay on the program. and

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Sam Johnson: that's just a consequence after passing two bills to give 10 million children health care, two bills with 45 republicans, 220-plus democrats in the house, 18 republicans in the senate, and every

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Sam Johnson: democrat in the senate, we were unable, we is unique around here, but we were unable to get the president to sign this legislation. and so what we couldn't resolve, the american people will resolve

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Phil Gingrey: in november. president kennedy once said, to govern is to choose. we've made our choice. the president and some on your side made your choice. and in november the american people will ma ke their

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Speech By: Phil Gingrey

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Phil Gingrey: choice. and that's how differences get resolved here. and i think we should understand that. and so as the president said a lot of children -- we have universal health care in this country

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Phil Gingrey: because we have an emergency in hospitals, so a lot of kids will go to emergency rooms that didn't need to go to emergency rooms. we did right in a bipartisan fashion to get a bill. in

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Phil Gingrey: my own view, this will be the first thing that the new democratic president will get done. we will get -- we don't need march 9. it will get done within the first month. it will be a major

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Phil Gingrey: accomplishment for a democratic congress and a democratic senate and a democratic president. thankful, mr. barton, for a thumb's up. i take that as an endorsement. don't fool yourself -- can i

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Phil Gingrey: have an additional 30 seconds, mr. chairman? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. emanuel: don't be confused that every kid that's on it will be on it.

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Phil Gingrey: starting in august in those 14 states, kids will beotified and their parents that if they had health care will no longer get health care. for aust, 2008, is two months before the election.

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Phil Gingrey: and i don't think that's a problem. as a matter of fact, you can't protect the american people from the consequences of the president's decision and the number of republicans stand by him. we did

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Phil Gingrey: right. there was a bipartisan bill to resolve a major problem to give 10 million children health care. we didn't accomplish it. we'll be back and we'll get it done because the american

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Phil Gingrey: people deserve and the kids deserv e the same health care that their members of congress and their kids get. this is what that would have done. . mr. mccrery: under the president's executive

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Phil Gingrey: order those states do the option -- do have the option of covering the low-income children this their states first. if they do that, then they can certainly expand it to higher income children.

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Phil Gingrey: at this time i would yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. english. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. mr. english: thank

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Roy Blunt: goodness they are not going to have to weight a generation for a democratic president. this bill, madam speaker, is a good resolution to a political impasse. and a good solution to the

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Speech By: Roy Blunt

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Roy Blunt: hinder and cuts that impede our nation's physicians and would impact on the health care of our young people and our seniors. it makes a substantial adjustment for physicians who participate

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Roy Blunt: in the medicare program all be it only temporary. although i would have liked to have seen a more permanent and comprehensive solution to a range of medicare issues, we just couldn't wait

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Roy Blunt: and allow 10% cuts in payments to physicians to occur. i hope to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a more permanent solution in the upcoming year to this particularly thorny

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Roy Blunt: issue. the legislation before us also endorses important issues that i fought hard to be involved with and to make progress on, including extending the exceptions pros for therapy caps

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Roy Blunt: and a revision of the policy structure for long-term care hospitals. those are legacy issues that we are going to have to take up sooner rather than later. i'm glad we have a final resolution

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Roy Blunt: temporarily on schip. thank you. i urge a vote for the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from california,

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Lloyd Doggett: ms. solis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. solis: thank you. i thank the gentleman. madam speaker,ea today i stand boldly in support

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Speech By: Lloyd Doggett

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Lloyd Doggett: of this medicare and medicaid schip extension act. however 800,000 children as you know in the state of california are covered by this program. it is essential that we continue to provide that

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Lloyd Doggett: coverage, but many, many low-income and minority children will not be covered because previously this president vetoed our bill twice. where we would have taken this farther instead of the six

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Lloyd Doggett: million that are currently in the program, we would have went to 10 million children. but we can't talk about that now. but one thing is sure. our constituents, our seniors, are telling

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Tom Price: us we need to also provide a fix for our doctors. because many of our seniors that are on low-income assistance now need to see their doctors and we know how vitally important that is.

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Speech By: Tom Price

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Tom Price: each and every one of us has an obligation to provide support for the very vulnerable in our communities. i think there's a saying somewhere, maybe in the bible, it says, we will be judged

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Tom Price: by how we deal with those that are most vulnerable. and those are our frail elderly and our children. i know we can do better. and i also pray that we do have better outcomes after 2008. because

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Tom Price: i do believe that our public, our constituents, are commanding that -- demanding that we step up to the plate on health care. that's a number one priority we are reading about across this

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Tom Price: country. we can't stand behind and not speak up here on the house on the floor and demand that we have better coverage for all of our populations. and i speak not only as a latina and as a

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Fortney Pete Stark: woman representing a low-income community, but i think i speak for many millions of people who would like to hear their congresspeople speaking out loud and shouting out loud about the need for better

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Speech By: Fortney Pete Stark

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Fortney Pete Stark: health care coverage. they are demanding it. and yes, as my former colleague said on the floor, we'll probably see those results change once november, twathe, comes and arrives. merry christmas

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Fortney Pete Stark: to the congress. . i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. the gentleman from texas. mr. barton: madam speaker, i'm going to

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Fortney Pete Stark: yield myself 15 seconds before i yield to the gentlelady from tennessee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: to point out that the subregulatory guideline that

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Joe Barton: mr. emanuel referred to requires states to show a good faith effort to cover 95% of those children below 200% of poverty before they cover children above 250% of poverty. with that i

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Speech By: Joe Barton

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Joe Barton: yield two minutes to the gentlelady from tennessee, a member of the committee, mrs. blackburn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mrs.

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Joe Barton: blackburn: thank you, y madam speaker. i want to compliment mr. barton and mr. deal for the traordinary amount of work they have done on this issue this entire year. i know that they are

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Joe Barton: pleased that the congressional leadership has joined them in working to be certain that we take the politics out of this issue and we keep that focus on how we address the health care needs

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Joe Barton: of our nation's most vulnerable. our children and our elderly. a couple of things that we are going to see in this bill. as you have already heard the medicare physician payment schedule, the

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Joe Barton: cut that was to take place is not going to, they are going to see a half percent increase through june, 2008. my hope is that we will be able to have the majority work with us to resolve

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Joe Barton: this issue. i think it is just unconscionable that every single year this s.g.r. gets revisited and try to work it through. we know that this is something we are going to be providing.

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Joe Barton: it is a service. health care is going to be provided for our medicare enrollees. madam speaker, this needs to be dealt with and the problem needs to be solved. i am also pleased that schip is going to

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Frank Jr.Pallone: be extended through march, 2009. that we are keeping the focus there on standing in the gap between those children that are not eligible for medicare and those that have the ability to

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Speech By: Frank Jr.Pallone

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Frank Jr.Pallone: afford private health insurance. this gets back to the original intent of that program to be certain that the children of the working poor are covered. i'm also pleased that this contains

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Frank Jr.Pallone: the six-month extension of critical funding for the tennessee medicaid dish payments to our hospitals. madam speaker, there should be some lessons learned from the 1115 waiver process that my

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Frank Jr.Pallone: state of tennessee has been through and through the experiment of hillary clinton health care. and the failures of that. as we move forward i hope that we look at those lessons learned. but

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Frank Jr.Pallone: i appreciate that this legislation does provide those dish payments to these hospitals. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mrs. blackburn: i look forward to working with

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Frank Jr.Pallone: the majority. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro

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tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker -- madam speaker, i rise in strong support of the medicare, medicaid, and schip extension

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act of 2007. the bill includes arovision based on legislation i introduced with representatives tanner, lobiondo, and hulshof which would not only permanently freeze compliance thresholds

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and to the 75% at 60%, it would require c.m.s. to consult rehabilitation facilities and developing recommendations of more appropriate criteria than the 75% rule for determining admission polcy. the

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legislation will stop c.m.s. in its tracks from continuing to implement an out-of-date, 75% rule that is 100% wrong for americans. and ensure that millions of individuals will continue to have

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access to the critical care and medical services provided by rehabilitation facilities. there are a number of individuals i would like to thank for their tireless work on this legislation. chairman rangel

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and the entire ways and means staff. particularly john shiner, cybill, janice, my partners on this legislation, representatives tanner, lobiondo, hulshof, and their staffs, vicki, dana, eric,

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and my legislative director, gene. and last but certainly not least the key advocates from hospitals in my districts in new york. dr.alsh from burke rehabilitation center, maggie ramirez

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Bob Filner: from helen hayes hospital, keith from phelps. your tireless work along with the support of chairman rangel and others in congress helped us get where we are today. i thank you-all again and i

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Speech By: Bob Filner

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Bob Filner: urge my colleagues to support this very important legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. mr. mccrery: how much time remains

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Bob Filner: on each side? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana has six minutes. the gentleman from new jersey has two minutes remaining. the gentleman from california has 2 1/2 minutes remaining.

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Bob Filner: and the gentleman from texas has 3 1/4 minutes remaining. the chair will recognize in reverse order the closing arguments. beginning with the gentleman from louisiana, mr. mccrery. the gentleman

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Bob Filner: from california, mr. stark. the gentleman from texas, mr. barton. and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. mr. mccrery: thank you, madam speaker. at this time i would recognize the distinguished

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Bob Filner: ranking member of the health subcommittee of the ways and means committee, mr. camp, from michigan for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for two