In November 2016, people started emailing me and calling, coming up to me in the grocery store and everywhere else with ...
In my view, veterans in Kansas and across the country will be misserved, underserved, in the absence of community care.
Are there instances of death that resulted from prescriptions of opioids, the use of opioids, because of the circumstanc...
I've suggested, at least to myself, that you and I have a regular meeting.
The plan, and I think it's the right one, is to consolidate all community care under one program so that Choice and the ...
We do not want to taint that program because of bad behavior. It needs to be eliminated, not tolerated.
The Senate has now passed legislation requiring chiropractic care in every VA hospital.
In my view, the VA was slow in its implementation of that and didn't seem to embrace that concept.
I think you are performing that task admirably.
Congress has a lot of burdens on its back at the moment, one, to get us out of the CR, and to do that, will give us the ...
the policies that the VA is implementing related to opioids really is broader.
Thank you for your testimony today and for the role you're playing in changing the world for the better.
You do highlight something that I've seen. I mean, I have parents who come to me to tell me their son or daughter needs ...
It's true in conversations that we have, casework in our office, in which the complaint will be, 'I no longer can get th...
Opioid overprescription abuse is truly a severe problem in Arkansas, as we discussed, and is so much so throughout the c...
In 2016, 235.9 million opioid pills were sold in Arkansas, three opioid prescriptions for every Arkansan.
Do we have any statistics that demonstrate that a veteran has, as a result of opioid or other drug addiction and abuse, ...
if the individual mandate is repealed in 2019, the Congressional Budget Office has said that rates could go up 10 percen...