Bill Cassidy

And I am paying $500 more a month for insurance, and I don't need what I'm getting with a $6,000 deductible.

The Affordable Care Act is unaffordable for the taxpayer, if from year to year we have had a 40 percent jump in per person Medicaid costs.

We can debate that, because, again, as we talked about, CBO reduced their baseline of those insured.

Just for truth in advertising, that is because States didn't do the Medicaid expansion.

If there is any way to expand coverage, and I am going over, and I thank you for your indulgence.

There is no way for the VA doc to access that Choice account for pharmaceuticals.

The pharmaceutical portion of the patient's care is also under the Choice Act, it is not just the doctor's visit, the surgery, whatever, it is also the pharmaceuticals?

So it strikes me if it is 80 percent of those with learning disabilities, 20 percent of the general population, why in the heck don't you have a special program for dyslexia?

How successful have you been in broadening access to pain clinic doctors among all your different facilities?

What percent of your facilities would have access to expertise such as this?

If there is no evidence for long-term benefit, then clearly this is not an answer even though it is being used for 370,000 people.

It violates first do no harm. It seems like there should be stricter prescriptions, proscriptions against doctors providing it.

Clearly having physicians involved in that database would be important because I, as a physician, have learned that many patients who are addicted doctor shop.

There is no evidence that for non-cancer pain longer than 90 days, that risk appears to outweigh benefit.

The House and the Senate have been interested in consolidating duplicative programs.

Implicit in what you were saying is that different divisions of the FDA have different rates of approval.

If we had the Keystone XL pipeline taking it out of the Bakken, obviously we would save lives and lower the cost.

Clearly, I have a stake in this, but it seems like you made a great case for going ahead and building the JOC on Fort Polk.

If Fort Polk is the one place where you are actually adding footprint, it does seem like the best use for the base is to continue to expand its capability.

Our productivity for the front lines is down by 25 percent.

The Federal Government has said, 'Listen, you've got to have this in order to have Meaningful Use, and so the Federal Government is here to help you,' and that's the problem?

I met yesterday with Senator Murkowski. She showed me a map of Alaska and how much is controlled by you two.

The VA has done something which I admire. They have given a spreadsheet which we can all look at that has these statistics per clinic.

And I encourage my colleagues, because Dr. Clancy was nice enough, I asked her for the granular data...

Let me ask one more thing quickly. You have a supplemental appropriations, a second bite, if you will, which is $1.3 billion.