Healthcare

I share Ranking Member Cherfilus-McCormick's belief that VA must focus on developing a baseline EHR that minimizes deviations as the program moves forward.

I am concerned, though, to hear that VA is moving forward with the program at the Lovell Federal Healthcare Center.

This is not an argument. We have 9 million veterans enrolled in this system, and I am trying to have a constructive conversation about how we move forward.

The VA must take a more aggressive role in change management for the good of the 171 Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VAMCs) within it and the 9 million veterans enrolled in the system.

I think this is an absolute failure. I think it is putting lipstick on a pig and pouring millions, if not billions of dollars into a system that is not providing the best care for veterans, period.

If you have seen one VA, you have seen one VA. Each medical center has a lot of autonomy.

Too often, the people who make decisions about healthcare have never had to choose between paying for medicine or paying rent. We need real representation in Congress.

$47 billion in Medicare provided payments that are due June 1 would not go out.

I am particularly concerned with the implications that has on the sick, the elderly, the youth, and the military.

We want people to get cancer screenings and screenings they need. We will commit to a hearing.

I want to just touch on antimicrobial resistance, something that is top of mind for us, something that I am concerned about as a pediatrician.

Having timely access to affordable, effective medicines is a key part of their economy and our domestic food chain.

Lack of competition has patients with fewer alternatives to access care, particularly in rural communities across Indiana's 6th district, my district.

Improving healthcare price transparency, however, would inject needed competition for healthcare facilities and ultimately lower costs for patients.

I don't think there is anything that hospitals should be afraid of when it comes to 340B transparency.

Site-neutral policies are also a tool to help strengthen the Medicare program overall.

In Massachusetts, outside of cities like Boston, we have lower-income communities that rely on stand-alone providers.

I am happy and ready to work on combating some of these perverse incentives for pharmacy benefit managers.