On May 4, 2012 Dr. Burgess wrote a letter signed by every member of the Texas House Delegation to Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Marilyn Tavenner to communicate the potential for disruption in the payment of providers in Texas under the Medicare program.
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WFAA TV updates the inspiring story of two North Texas residents connected by one little boy: the boy's father who needed a kidney and the boy's teacher whose caring gift has taught a lifelong lesson. Now, in the months after the transplant, the father now worries about the cost of medications to keep the new kidney functioning, and Congressman Michael Burgess pushes for a practical, compassionate way to help all kidney transplant patients.
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• On April 19, 2012 Congressman Burgess wrote a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius seeking more information regarding actions by a Medicare Administrative Carrier that relate to the reimbursement of Medicare services and the state regulation of the practice of optometry.
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Public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans lack confidence in their elected officials in Congress and disapprove of the direction of the country. Yet a large percentage of citizens fail to vote or participate in the political process. If the American experiment in self-government is to succeed, it must have the active participation of its citizens. Can democracy work?—Both James Madison and Ronald Reagan argued that it could, but only with the active participation of “informed” citizens equipped “with the power knowledge gives.”
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This week Dr. Burgess provides an update from Washington on President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget. You can watch the video below. To read a transcript of the video click here.
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26), Vice Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health and Chairman of the Congressional Health Care Caucus, stood with Medicare patients and their doctors in rejecting another effort by Congress to merely delay the financial decision that must be resolved for a long term solution to the Sustainable Growth Rate formula used to reimburse Medicare treatment. Dr. Burgess opposed combining three big policy pieces that each deserve individual consideration and separate votes. This legislation obscured the tough decisions about financial priorities by mixing together the physician payment, a payroll tax holiday, and extension of unemployment benefits.
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