Snippets from committee hearing this morning for Secretary of HHS (Tom Price)
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Strongbad (aka Rambler14)
Jan 18 '17, 09:24
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He mentions some of the biggest lessons learned from his years as a practicing physician, ideas that have shaped his philosophy as a legislator and will likely be a major guiding principles should he be confirmed as health secretary.
He mentioned that many of his former patients “were never more angry and frustrated than when they realized that there was someone other than themselves and/or their physician making medical decisions on their behalf – when there was someone not involved in the actual delivery of care that was standing between them and their doctor or treatment.”
Price said he also noticed there were often “more individuals within our office who were dealing with paperwork, insurance filings and government regulations than there were individuals actually seeing and treating patients.”
“It was in those moments that it became crystal clear that our health care system was losing focus on the number one priority – the individual patient,” he said.
In the first round of questions, Price said his goal regarding the replacement of Obamacare is to prevent people from losing coverage and bringing healthcare decisions closer to the states and patients.
“One of the important things we need to convey is that nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody,” he said.
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