WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) delivered the following opening statement at a hearing with hospital system CEOs:
As prepared for delivery.
Good morning, and I would like to thank each of our witnesses for voluntarily agreeing to appear before the Committee this morning.
Today's hearing is a continuation of this committee's larger effort to get to the root causes of why health care is so outrageously expensive for patients and why so many Americans lack access to health care.
CEOs representing some of the nation's largest hospital empires are before us. But let me be clear, the entire health ca...