I am saying, we have got to go to alternative pain methods.
Just in my State. In a 5-year period--I only have 1.85 million people in my State.
I am finding that the VA does not always have or offer good alternatives.
This did not happen when we were youth. OK?
I have used up my time, but this is such an important topic.
It is the opioids, prescription of these opioids, painkillers, and I am sure you all are very much aware of it. We are b...
We have double the mortality rate as far as opioid overdoses in military VA than the national average.
We are working on it.
We use 80 percent of the opioids that are produced in the world.
With the Choice Act, are you all allowing them to find different providers, private providers, that might be able to pro...
I am concerned about expansion of the Lifeline program to include broadband before additional reforms to curb fraud and ...
There is no support. I hear no support.
In the last week, during the break, I returned to West Virginia and was on overload of negative information coming at us...
So if you are sitting in the kitchen with this 55-year-old that just lost his job, he has been working 30 years in a coa...
Well, but keep in mind too, Mr. Secretary, you know that coalminers average age is going to be in their 50s.
The first newspaper I got when I got back there was, dark day for miners. They just announced that 2,268 coalmining jobs...
Just in 3 years. Three years 45 percent of our coalminers are looking for work.
So my first question of two questions would be to the coal industry to reverse this decline?
