While we all want permitting decisions to occur quickly--God knows I do--the rules and processes we have in place are not always just 'red tape.'

People around New Hampshire, when I said we were going to have bipartisan hearings and listen to experts... there was a real sigh of relief.

Well, I was outraged and it's just disgusting. We are in the middle of public health and public safety challenge and crisis in our state. It's an epidemic and to hear the president of the United States characterize people with chronic…

And so, I am urging the president to stop just talking about this issue, and actually help us deal with it by helping us get the resources we need to get people into treatment, to get the kind of work force we need.

But it's also that his actions since becoming president and advocating for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act for instance, which would repeal our bipartisan Medicaid expansion program, so critical to treatment in New Hampshire.

So, I just would like the president to stop throwing insults at people dealing with a chronic illness, and really help us get the resources on the ground that we need.

And it's not just New Hampshire, obviously, it's across the country.

I have been concerned that Secretary Tom Price has been critical about medication-assisted treatments suggesting it is not very effective.

If your house is on fire, you want to put out the fire, and the fire in this case is the individual health insurance market.

Unless we act, many of them may not have policies available to buy in 2018 because insurance companies will pull out of collapsing markets.

Just because we are constrained for time, I think this, though, is very specific.

I am worried that delaying the deeming rule is contradictory to what the 2016 Surgeon General's report called for.