Brett Guthrie

We are here today because the healthcare costs continue to rise, further limiting America's budgets that have already been stretched by the inflation driven by the spending in the last couple of years.

I am hopeful we can come to a bipartisan agreement on a path forward to extend funding and--on the necessary offsets for the Teaching Health Care Center Graduate Medical Education program.

I want to thank Dr. Joyce for leading on this important issue, especially at a time in which we are facing primary care provider shortages across the Nation.

Today the healthcare subcommittee is taking an important step in reauthorizing critical programs within the Health Resources and Services Administration.

What is atrociously happening to them is our border policy is attracting migrants to the border, is happening to our children, and it is sad.

We want people to get cancer screenings and screenings they need. We will commit to a hearing.

There is no reason why we should continue to see Americans paying 2 to 3 times more for drugs here in America, when those same drugs are sold in other parts of the world for so much less.

Why should taxpayers give higher levels of funding to the CDC when public trust has been eroded?

I have great concerns about the budget.

Shining a light on middlemen who are making prescriptions more expensive is one important step to bolster competition.

It is also crucial for Congress to codify and strengthen these important transparency rules.

It is imperative for the Biden administration to conduct greater enforcement efforts on these rules to better serve patients.

I hope today can be a start on finding bipartisan solutions to make healthcare pricing more transparent.

By working together across the aisle, I am hoping we can make important strides to make the healthcare system easier for patients.

Before I yield, I want to point out that this doesn't do anything to undo the restrictions on people traveling from China. As a matter of fact, the Rules Committee made an amendment in order that will pass today, and I hope my friends will…

I think I did use the word ``cut,'' and I think I corrected myself. We are spending less money in Medicare, so you are taking money out of Medicare under the Inflation Reduction Act, but that money wasn't really put back in to shore up…

We are trying to end the emergency powers of the President during the pandemic. We recognize COVID is still an issue that people have to deal with. We absolutely know that we are going to be working together over the next few weeks and…

I just point out that the omni gave the States clarity in how to deal with the Medicaid situation moving forward. We also extended telehealth, so a lot of things we have been trying to do, we have been asking the administration for a year…

I have currently introduced an Authorized Use of Military Force to go after the cartels specifically with every aspect of our government's power.

As we turn the page on both 2022 and the 117th Congress, thousands of Americans and their families are still reeling from failures by this administration and the last Congress to meaningfully address one of the greatest public health…

I urge all of my colleagues on this subcommittee to support these four bills before us today.

A life worth living is always a life worth saving, regardless of someone's health status.

It is long overdue for Congress to take the necessary step of banning QALYs.

This is an important piece of legislation. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes,'' and I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge the passage of 8163, and I yield back the balance of my time.