McDermott: Swift W&M Passage Of Revised Dialysis Bill Shows Broken Process

The House Ways & Means Committee passed a bipartisan end-stage renal disease care coordination bill at a markup Thursday (Sept. 8), but health subcommittee ranking Democrat Jim McDermott (WA) said a new version of the bill was rushed through committee without lawmakers having a chance to understand the changes or to run them past experts. McDermott said this is indicative of a broken committee process where lawmakers often tackles complicated topics without time for hearings or debate and with “no...