E&C Democrats Want Verma To Testify On Trump Health Care Policies

The House Energy & Commerce Committee wants CMS Administrator Seema Verma to testify this fall as part of the committee’s oversight of Medicare and Medicaid, a committee source told Inside Health Policy . No date has been scheduled, and CMS declined to answer questions on whether Verma intends to testify. In her two years as head of CMS, Verma has assumed a prominent public role as defender of the Trump administration’s health care agenda and critic of Democratic health proposals...