Larry Bucshon

First off, I want to thank you for your recent proposal to reform Stark Law.

If the Federal Government gets more into this space, which is being proposed in H.R. 3, is that you will indeed have financial decisions being made by different administrations that may very well limit access based on the Government's…

The U.S. Federal Government, potentially, in the negotiations could make policy decisions that are essentially medical decisions on who gets access and who doesn't based on cost.

One of the risks of doing the wrong thing in the U.S. on drug pricing can, in my view, severely limit potential access to medication.

I was a heart surgeon before I was in Congress, and for me the key is patient access to affordable healthcare.

It is kind of clear to me, at least at the leadership level on the majority side, that there may not be much interest in actually getting something signed into law but to play politics primarily against the President.

I would implore us to bring bipartisan bills passed unanimously out of this committee to bring down drug prices to the floor for a vote.

Impaired driving is an epidemic across our Nation that claims far too many lives each year.

This is in contradiction to two NHTSA studies from 2012 and 2017.

It is imperative that the CAFE standard creates certainty and uniformity.

I totally agree with him. We have passed, over the last few Congresses, through the House what is called the REINS Act.

Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn't say that.

The draft legislation would lead to a reimbursement race to the bottom.

The liability of surprise out-of-network bills should not be on the patient.

The current draft of the No Surprises Act, although well intended, in my view is not completely the right solution.

But that said, I have strong concerns about some of the bills before us for consideration which do not include the Hyde Amendment protections--prolife protections that have been in funding bills, preventing government funding for abortions.

We need broadband infrastructure in rural Indiana. You can't have schools. You can't have economic investment.

I do think that it is important, when we look at any source of energy, we look at the entire lifecycle of that product.

The bills that we passed in a bipartisan way in our committee recently should pass the House, and pass the Senate, and be signed by the President.

MedPac is an important resource for Congress as we look to address challenging issues, such as Medicare's ability to provide adequate and affordable drug coverage to seniors.

I appreciate this opportunity for members to take a deeper look at the drug coverage offered to seniors under Medicare Part B and D.

It is important that members of Congress on both sides of the aisle work together and, with the Administration, find solutions to lower list prices and out-of-pocket costs while maintaining robust access to seniors, without penalizing…

We also have to make ways that people can't get around these things, if we decide to do it, as we should.

This is a critical problem, and I would agree that it is something that we probably have slowly tried to address, probably too slowly.

Could you also agree that we need to require all 340(b) covered entities to report savings achieved from the 340(b) program and their uses?