As noted above, a National Coverage Analysis on beta-amyloid PET scans is underway to reconsider a prior National Coverage Determination on Medicare coverage of PET scans.

I would urge the administration and yourself to relook at the medical device tax as a way to fund the Affordable Care Act and look for other options.

the medical device tax in the Affordable Care Act is damaging the industry.

I strongly believe all workers deserve strong protections against employment discrimination.

This is not the only hearing that we have heard from people who depend on so-called discretionary spending at the Federal level.

I practice in southern Indiana where I get patients from southern Illinois, northern Kentucky, and southern Indiana. Every year, the Illinois Medicaid system ran out of money before the end of the year, September-October. They just ran out…

Thank you, Dr. Roe, for yielding. It's great to be here with many members of the Doctors' Caucus and again remember the focus of what we are trying to do here is focusing on the patient, what's best for the American people and our…

I would agree with that. And let me tell you, there are some things that we could have agreed on that we could have made some advances on in health care reform. Preexisting conditions, all of us agree. I had a patient that had Hodgkin's…

Let me add a few final comments. Again, on the things that we can agree on, many of us agree on children up to age 25 or 26. A lot of us agree that we need to look at finding ways to expand the affordability of health care. Remember, this…

I'm here to comment on the administration playing politics in an attempt to maximize the impact of his sequester on the American people and, in this case, the aviation system and the traveling public. The FAA's operating budget has grown…

I am interested to learn how effectively these programs are being coordinated across the different federal agencies to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being leveraged effectively.

Instead of, in my view, showing leadership, the President has spent his time in office defending a healthcare law that makes matters even worse.