"Despite Acting Administrator Slavitt's on-the-record commitments to produce the requested documents, on June 10, 2016, HHS sent a letter to the committee acknowledging that responsive documents exist, but it will not produce them. In refusing to produce the documents, the department cited the need to protect its 'confidentiality interests,' and claimed that providing documents to Congress about these final rules would 'have a chilling effect on future deliberations.' To date, HHS has not asserted any legal privileges -- let alone a valid one -- to justify withholding these final documents from Congress."

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