Jerry Moran

We need to ensure that our products are safe for consumers.

S. 207, Veterans Access to Community Care Act of 2015 introduced by Senator Jerry Moran (KS).

VA's efforts to eliminate veterans' homelessness have been impressive and are showing significant success.

The Veterans Access to Community Care Act requires the VA to provide veterans access to non-VA health care.

The VA to have at least 75 of their medical centers offer chiropractic care by December 31, 2016.

You and Senator Blumenthal were very instrumental in the Senate passing a fix to the 40-mile rule.

We are not done yet, and we say the finish line, unfortunately, is not the U.S. Senate, but the finish line is the President of the United States.

MOAA supports S. 296.

This bill simply calls on VA to do what it already had the authority to do.

It ought to lie with the VA or TriWest, not the veteran.

I hope to ask a series of questions, but the time on the clock will run quickly.

I consider those dollars within the Universal Service Fund pretty scarce and important.

I would like to see that continue expeditiously with a great deal of common sense and a sensitivity toward how rural the country is.

I agree that it doesn't make much sense to have the linkage between narrowband and broadband.

I think it is one of the most important agencies this subcommittee has jurisdiction over, and I thank you for conducting this hearing.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

A significant regulatory burden I hear about when visiting hospitals in Kansas are problems with Medicare RAC audits.

From a reimbursement of cost to the Medicare trust fund, that doesn't make any sense, right?

I would just like to have the summary of the costs associated with telemedicine and how they are paid for.

Under the Affordable Care Act, a theory was that there would be more people insured.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for helping me ask my question. I appreciate the answer.

Would that be true generally across the country, that there are grants available for the equipment?

Can you confirm for the record that when we talk about reimbursing a hospital its costs, that it is receiving something significantly less than actual cost of operating a hospital?

I would be interested in knowing the research outcome of what happens to a community following a hospital closure.

I think we ought to be more prospective as how we avoid this, what are the precipitating causes.