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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) issued the following statement regarding her vote against Rep. Fred Upton's (MI-06) bill, the so-called "Keep Your Health Plan Act." The bill undermines the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by allowing insurers to sell substandard plans to millions of new enrollees through 2014. Rep.
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette, Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret A.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) offered the following opening statement at the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s hearing on improving Healthcare.gov.
Rep. DeGette’s opening statement, as delivered, is below:
“Thank you very much Mr. Pallone.
About an hour and a half into this morning's Energy and Commerce hearing, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) showed off a slide of code he said was from the HealthCare.gov site, and which he believed was a violation of HIPAA heath privacy rules.
The Energy and Commerce Committee is now a bit more than two hours into its hearing on HealthCare.gov. If you've missed it, this tweet pretty much sums up the proceedings:
WASHINGTON — Federal officials did not fully test the online health insurance marketplace until two weeks before it opened to the public on Oct. 1, contractors told Congress on Thursday.
While individual components of the system were tested earlier, they said, the government did not conduct "end-to-end-testing" of the system until late September.