Posted on 03/01/2017 4:44:17 PM PST by buckalfa
Due to a lack of members present at a Senate Finance Committee executive session Wednesday, the committee will reconvene Thursday to vote again on the candidacy of Seema Verma for CMS administrator.
Senators present at the meeting voted 9-9 on the nomination, and the final tally with proxies was 15-11 to confirm Ms. Verma as CMS administrator. However, because proxies do not count, the committee must vote again before they can send her nomination to the full Senate for a final vote. The full committee has 26 members, 14 Republican and 12 Democrat.
Ms. Verma is the president, CEO and founder of a national health policy consulting company called SVC. She is known for her work in crafting the Healthy Indiana Plan, the state's version of Medicaid expansion, which was created under a waiver from the Obama administration.
Apology, the article is an excerpt.
What is CMS?
Had to look that one up myself
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Center for Medicare / Medicaid Services. The policy making / administrative arm for these government programs. Quite a center of spending and power over the entire healthcare system.
CMS desperately needs someone to get in there and get rid of 90% of the stupid regulations they come up with that do not do much more than make healthcare a study in beaurocratic data collection and AWAY from taking care of patients! It is sucking the life out of healthcare and is but ONE reason the cost of healthcare is so outrageous!!!!!!
ucking the life out of healthcare and is but ONE reason the cost of healthcare is so outrageous!!!!!!>>> like fancy 4 page denial letters with the same information on an EOB. extra postage printing CPU, etc. monthly and quarterly statements. etc.
Don’t know if he’s on this committee, but Sen. Isakson is out, just having had back surgery. At least he lasted to get the most controversial cabinet picks through. I hope he recovers quickly for the remainder of his term, then GA can provide an upgrade. He has Parkinsons, so probably won’t run again.
“I hope he (Isakson) recovers quickly for the remainder of his term, then GA can provide an upgrade. He has Parkinsons, so probably won’t run again.”
I show him as having his next election in 2022, so if he’s got Parkinson’s, he may need to be replaced long before that. I am wondering why he ran this past year? He’s looking at a full six year term. Plus he’s already 72.
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