I appreciate the support of Ranking Member, Ms. DeGette, and the minority in this investigation.
I am glad we are having this overview hearing and I am also happy to work with the majority on additional hearings in the particular issues ...
It gives me great pride to know that I have fellow countrymen who are capable of such selfless feats of bravery.
to designate the telehealth clinic in Craig, Colorado as the 'Major William Edward Adams Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic.'
It is only fitting and proper that we pay tribute to a heroic American who was awarded our Nation's highest honor...
The stakes are high. With the number of veterans eligible for care rising year after year...
I'm highly worried that before the legislation we didn't even have an IPAB. Now we have an IPAB, and I think its goal inevitably will be to ...
Again, the point of the hearing is how do we maintain quality, how do we encourage the pharmaceutical sector to innovate and take some risks...
I do understand, Mr. Blum, that if the IPAB recommendations are not acceptable to the Congress, we can simply override them with our own ide...
And that's the point of the hearing today, and I want to thank Senator Kohl and Senator Corker for convening this.
The Affordable Care Act was focused in part on outcomes.
I also fear that too often the device industry and also people like me who are eager to see cures and treatments for diseases kind of minimi...
Unfortunately, some of the advances in these technologies... seem to have been so slow over at the FDA.
For the generation of kids like our two kids, Ms. Sagan's and mine, the short-term cure is medical devices.
The reviewers found the following problems with these industry-funded studies. First, the existence of 'so many flaws in design and executio...
On the one hand, people are relying on devices, and on the other hand, we want to make sure that improvements and advances in those devices ...
That history is important to tell.
St. Augustine is one of our Creator's most special places.
