ICYMI: CHAIRMAN SMITH ON MORNING IN AMERICA: "I DON'T KNOW OF ANY FARMS ON EAST 68TH STREET IN MANHATTAN."

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) joined NewsNation's Morning in America to discuss the Committee's recent hearing with CEOs of massive hospital systems, highlighting how those systems are exploiting loopholes and consolidating to drive up costs and reduce access to health care for working-class families.

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Interview Excerpts

On holding health care empires accountable despite their blame game strategy.

"We brought in the 5 largest health insurers just a few months back and they pointed to the hospitals as the reason why premiums are going up. So we brought in some...