[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PROTECTING SENIORS' ACCESS TO MEDICARE ACT OF 2015

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that the House showed 
leadership tonight in passing H.R. 1190, Protecting Seniors' Access to 
Medicare Act of 2015.
  The IPAB board was going to be very problematic for seniors, and H.R. 
1190 is going to be a very important tool in correcting the wrongs of 
the Affordable Care Act and preserving access to health care. It would 
indeed have had an unelected board making Medicare spending decisions 
which, again, would be shifting power to Washington, D.C., and away 
from that all-important doctor-patient relationship, where it really 
should be.
  We want to talk about savings in the medical field--and we need to--
because not nearly enough is done, whether it was in the Affordable 
Care Act or other conversations around D.C. We need to talk about and 
work on actually achieving cost cutting, reduction of unnecessary costs 
delivering health care, litigation, and the time it takes to bring 
miracle pharmaceuticals to markets.
  These are the kinds of things that we need to be doing to make health 
care more affordable and, indeed, more accessible.

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