Catherine Cortez Masto
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170 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
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Let me rephrase that so you can hear a pregnant woman with a life threatening bleed bleeding from an incomplete miscarriage goes to the ER and her doctor also determines that she needs an emergency abortion.
But she's in a state where abortion is banned.
You would agree also as an attorney that federal law protects her right to that emergency care, correct?
Let me ask you this as an attorney.
Doesn't federal law preempt state law?
I appreciate that.
But what authority do you have over this as the director of HHS?
Yeah, to enforce the law.
To make sure that a hospital that receives payment from Medicare is ensuring that they're providing the necessary emergency care to patients.
It's actually the EMTALA law.
So what authority as HHS director do you have with respect to intolerance?
Actually, you do.
And that's CMS.
CMS actually investigates complaints of intolerant violations, as well as the Health and Human Services Inspector General, who, by the way, was just recently fired by Donald Trump.
So you will be enforcing EMTALA laws, and it's important that you understand their impact and don't play politics with the patient presenting at the ER based on a position that this administration has taken.
Let me ask you another question.
When we met in my office, you said about...
Lowering drug prices that when big pharma price gouges, the American people suffer.
I think we both agree on that.
And I think you're sincere in your belief that you want to reduce prices for Americans, correct?
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