Bill Cassidy

If this has been going on for some time, it's not brand new, it's pervasive, but not being fixed apparently.

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.

We're talking suicide, you see what I'm saying?

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…

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

It is quite pervasive.

People have to show courage. If you're afraid, you got to read the bill. I mean, don't be ignorant. Read the bill.

To what degree has this information that we have had for 2 years been translated by clinicians into different approaches, even if it is empiric?

It is going to be bad for this.

The Administration is pushing that if there are cures with NIH money, that the Federal Government can march in and dictate whether or not the intellectual property is taken if they don't like the price.

You give a man a microphone and all of a sudden you can't control them.

It is observational. It is not therapy.

I am a doctor. You are going to see my questions kind of reflect the technical aspect of this.

You have not my sympathy, my empathy. My understanding that this is something which can be devastating for someone.

I think a lot of the anecdotal--that anecdotal evidence, and also the basic and mechanistic evidence, is informing the development of clinical trial.

I think the broader--the provider community don't really have a very----

To what degree has this information that we have had for 2 years been translated by clinicians into different approaches, even if it is empiric?

The Administration is pushing that if there are cures with NIH money, that the Federal Government can march in and dictate whether or not the intellectual property is taken if they don't like the price.

It is going to be bad for this.

You give a man a microphone and all of a sudden you can't control them.

It is observational. It is not therapy.

I am a doctor. You are going to see my questions kind of reflect the technical aspect of this.

We gave the Department of Health and Human Services $1 billion to study long COVID.

That is why Congress needs to reauthorize PAHPA.