Bill Cassidy

Whenever you decrease profits, you get less innovation.

Let's make a difference for the people whom we represent--for those patients in hospitals who I once treated who otherwise would not have access to care.

Let's just be clear, everybody on this panel cares about the high cost of prescription drugs and wants to work on real solutions to address this.

The people of Kansas sent me here to save Medicare.

We support legislation in order to be able to do value based contracts in the case of gene therapy.

Very concisely, how are we going to show restraint on the price of some of these new gene therapies?

An action plan does not necessarily create results.

There's been an issue at the VA in which a person at suicide risk was counseled by their supervisor to frankly lie about the incident.

How pervasive, do you have a sense of how pervasive that is?

That's a good thing.

I was pleased to see the VA recently announced that it'll award another $50 million to community organizations to help prevent veteran suicide.

Well, the Vet Centers are obviously a place, that's where you can go and if there's a gap between the veteran and the services and their families and the mental health and the readjustment, and you name it, that's what the Vet Center is…

Veterans' mental health and suicide prevention should be all of our top priority.

So is there a stepwise plan that you could send the two of us and we could look at it and we say, 'Oh, this is reasonable. They're addressing it.'

An action plan does not necessarily create results.

That's a good thing.

Now, I'm hearing though they're not making the connections.

How pervasive, do you have a sense of how pervasive that is?

There's been an issue at the VA in which a person at suicide risk was counseled by their supervisor to frankly lie about the incident.

I was pleased to see the VA recently announced that it'll award another $50 million to community organizations to help prevent veteran suicide.

Veterans' mental health and suicide prevention should be all of our top priority.

Well, the Vet Centers are obviously a place, that's where you can go and if there's a gap between the veteran and the services and their families and the mental health and the readjustment, and you name it, that's what the Vet Center is…

I was pleased to see the VA recently announced that it'll award another $50 million to community organizations to help prevent veteran suicide.

That's a good thing.

An action plan does not necessarily create results.