The Senate Health & Social Services Committee held an extensive hearing on SB 1, a sweeping primary care investment and hospital price cap bill that would expand on SB 120 by adding Medicaid and state employees to coverage requirements and imposing a 250% of Medicare reference-based price ceiling on hospital services. No vote was taken on SB 1; the hearing drew sharp conflict between hospital systems warning of hundreds of millions in revenue cuts and primary care physicians, insurers, and state officials arguing the status quo is financially unsustainable for patients and providers alike.
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Senator Seigfried called the Delaware Healthcare Association's 'campaign of fear threatening the elimination of 4,000 employees' 'disgraceful,' said using staff as 'pawns' was 'unacceptable,' and demanded an apology. Senator Townsend stated that 'passing out to legislators maps of their districts with little dots of where healthcare workers live is a particularly craven way of approaching health policy.' Brian Frazee had referenced potential job impacts in his testimony but did not respond to the apology demand on the record.
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“President and CEO of BB Healthcare. I have practiced as a pediatrician, Brian shorter than me as a pediatrician. I've practiced as a pediatric neurologist. I've been in the Navy. One of the reasons why I became a healthcare executive is because healthcare finance is complicated and I had to learn more about it. And that's why I am now here at Beebe. Yesterday was my six year anniversary because I believe that there is an opportunity to improve the quality of health care while reducing the cost. And that is the journey that BB Healthcare has been on unlike in the past when I've spoken to you, I am not speaking actually on behalf of the Delaware Healthcare Association. That's Brian's job. My job is talk to you specifically about the potential impacts of SB1 on BB healthcare. It's been a challenge and you might ask why has it been a challenge. And I hope I can take a few minutes to speak about this with of course the experts”
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Sign in to subscribeTo a very special episode of the Senate Health and Social Services Committee. We will jump right in. Do we have minutes? Yes. I'll start with. Before the minutes start with attendance roll call. Senators who are present. Myself. Senator Pinckney is present. Vice Chair Townsend here. Senator Hanson, Senator Huxtable, Senator Poorest, Senator Siegfried, Senator Buxon and Senator Wilson. With all members of the Health and Social Services Committee present, we do have a quorum and we will get started. And I'll move right into our first agenda item of approval of last week's meeting minutes from March 11. If there are any questions, I'll entertain those. Otherwise, I'd ask for a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. Moved by Senator Townsend, seconded by Senator Huxtable. The minutes are approved. We will jump right into our second agenda item. A couple of housekeeping rules. We have quite a long committee hearing today. The committee hearing will obviously be broken up into presentation of the bill from several witnesses called between myself and Senator Townsend. Each witness will have approximately. One will have about seven minutes. Please feel free to not use all of those seven minutes. We will…
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