Burwell HHS Hearings Give Republicans Obamacare Opening
Republican lawmakers said hearings on Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary provide a fresh opening to raise questions about President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
Obama’s choice of Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to succeed Kathleen Sebelius will “elevate some of the concerns” that Republicans have about Obamacare, Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.
She and other Republican lawmakers said they want details on how many enrollees have paid for their plans, the age composition of the enrollees and how that will influence insurers’ decisions to raise prices next year.
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