Tom Price: “These are American citizens, and it is incumbent upon us to take that responsibility seriously.”

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.

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.

What I want to say to the speaker, don't you fly over our country in your luxury jet, and lecture us on what it means to be an American.