It is an honor to join with my colleague, Senator Grassley, in introducing John Norris.
I have always admired him for what he did during the 1980s for our family farmers.
He has a profound understanding of energy issues and their impacts on ordinary Americans.
I believe John is very well qualified to serve as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
I appreciate very much this opportunity to introduce an outstanding Iowan to the committee to serve the people of this country.
I got interested in using telehealth sometime ago for a variety of different things.
If you go--probably if--I don't know, if you went to a hospital or someplace, there would probably be some reimbursement for that, I don't k...
But, again, if something has been looked at scientifically and the vast majority of the scientific community, after looking at this and goin...
I've been a big supporter of that Children's Study, and I have used my position on this subcommittee to make sure that we continue the fundi...
Do you really want to ask parents to put their children at risk for those illnesses for which we could lose herd immunity?
Who does this? Who is charged with the responsibility of coming up with standards that have to be met so we don't have people out there that...
Are we doing any studies now to show comparative effectiveness? Or, is this something that hopefully, this billion dollars we put in the bud...
We've put some money in this project, looking at telehealth, and how you can get together with a group of professionals early on.
A lot of families that have young children that are diagnosed with autism, they're at their wit's end.
This--to me, has been very informative. It's just good to be brought up to speed on it.
Hopefully we'll look at the whole issue of reimbursement for preventative category of services.
I'm still interested in telehealth, because there are so many families out there, and they are at wit's end on how to take care of their kid...
I believe in open inquiry. As I said to a group last night, I do not believe in closed minds or closed doors or closed inquiry.
