The President spent the night in Hampton, Virginia.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced three sets of important reforms expected to save more than $1 billion every year in health care overhead and paperwork costs. The reforms were aimed at reducing unnecessary, obsolete, or burdensome regulations on American hospitals and healthcare providers. The reforms were expected to save doctors, nurses, and patients a lot of time and money:
1)Streamlining Conditions of Participation . "Conditions of Participation" are federal health and safety requirements that hospitals must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated that the burden-reducing initiative will produce $940 million in annual savings to hospitals by giving hospitals more flexibility in deciding how to best treat their patients. Without compromising safety, these new rules would increase the time and resources hospitals and providers could devote to patient care by eliminating outdated, bureaucratic, and unnecessary requirements.
2)Reducing burdens on end-stage renal disease facilities and ambulatory surgical centers . The proposed Medicare Regulatory Reform rule would identify and eliminate duplicative, overlapping, outdated, and conflicting regulatory requirements for healthcare providers and suppliers, including end-stage renal disease facilities and ambulatory surgical centers. CMS estimated that first year savings would total $170 million and that another $37 million per year would be saved thereafter through the elimination of outdated standards and by ending requirements that these centers purchase and maintain unnecessary equipment.
3)Simplifying conditions for coverage for Ambulatory Surgical Centers . HHS was in the process of finalizing a rule to update the conditions for coverage regulations for Ambulatory Surgical Centers. Specifically, the final rule would eliminate a provision that required ASCs to notify patients, the patients' representative, or the patients' surrogate of their rights on a separate day from their procedure. CMS estimated that the final rule would result in $50 million in annual savings for ASCs. Source
Day1002/Oct19th/Wednesday: The President traveled with First Lady Michelle Obama to the Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, where both delivered remarks on the importance of hiring American veterans. Transcript Video
The President traveled to Fire Station 9 in North Chesterfield, Virginia, where he delivered remarks about the need for the United States Congress to pass the American Jobs Act piece-by-piece, beginning with his funding proposal to prevent teacher layoffs and hire police officers and firefighters. Transcript Video
The President returned to the White House.
The President issued a Presidential Memorandum, notifying the United States Congress: "Because the actions of significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States and cause an extreme level of violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad, the national emergency declared on October 21, 1995, and the measures adopted pursuant thereto to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond October 21, 2011. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia." Notice
Day1003/Oct20th/Thursday: The President welcomed to the White House the 13 recipients of the 2011 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second-highest civilian honor, and provided remarks in the East Room of the White House. Transcript This year's winners Video
The President met with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway in the Oval Office of the White House. Remarks of the President & Prime Minister Stoltenberg after the Bilateral Meeting Fact Sheet: U.S. & Norway: Nato Allies & Global Partners Video
The President, in a released statement on the announcement by Libya's government of the death of Muammar Qaddafi, declaring, "This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya."
The President delivered remarks on the death of Libian dictator Moammar Qaddafi from from the Rose Garden of the White House. Video
The President held a videoconference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , French President Nicolas Sarkozy , and British Prime Minister David Cameron . They discussed developments in Libya and the European financial crisis. Readout
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