Tom Price: “I understand this is an authorizing piece of legislation; it is not requiring the money to be spent; and that we have…”

We have, in essence, transferred over the past 30 to 40 years the treatment of mental health individuals... to a remarkably substandard care in our criminal justice system.

We've turned physicians of this land into data entry clerks, and it is literally driving physicians out of practice.

I appreciate your passion for this. This is a real concern because, as you know, across the country, especially in rural areas, individuals that have provided this service to their communities for years and years, oftentimes decades, have…

So wouldn't we as a compassionate society step back and say, 'OK, that's a real problem and we need to address it.' That's what we're trying to do.