Bob Casey

AAP thanks Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Casey for their strong leadership on the Federal Emergency Medical Services for Children, or EMSC, Program.

We have a strong, bipartisan history of working together on this Committee to improve our communities' ability to respond to all manner of public health threats.

Preparedness is continuous and must evolve to face new and different types of threats.

Next week, we look forward to hearing from nongovernmental stakeholders about how we can continue to strengthen our readiness for future public health emergencies and keep the American public safe.

I represent a state that has 48 rural counties out of a total of 67 counties.

I am only aware of the contents of this document from published press reports following Senator Casey's disclosure of the document.

Some of the proposals this year that were put forth would have decimated it.

I would argue, sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

We are desperately in need of Rowen's medical assistance and would be devastated if we lost these benefits.

I hope we can get that done in the next couple of days, I hope by the 19th.

HHS has developed a list of hundreds of other actions to sabotage health care for people nationwide.

I actually introduced a bill to commit $45 billion over 10 years, so roughly $4.5 billion a year.

What I keep hearing from folks at the local level is, 'We need more resources. We're getting our arms around this.'

We've had, last year, the last count in 2016, 4,624 overdose deaths. That's up 37 percent from the prior year.

Thank you, Mr. President. I ask to speak in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is recognized. ____________________

I thank my colleague from Colorado. I heard most of his remarks, some of them on television before my moving to come over here to speak. I am grateful for his commitment to the arguments that he has made on tax reform and his commitment…

An exception would need to be provided for instances in which there is a supply chain failure that necessitates temporary increases in price in order to maintain necessary supply.

Full disclosure of costs, rebates/discounts, etc. will almost guarantee all rebates and discounts (final expenditures) equalizing; companies will be unable to justify any price differences across populations.

Whenever Federal tax dollars are being spent on a good or service, it is important to ensure those dollars are being spent wisely, efficiently, and as intended.

The most effective way to lower drug prices is to curb the monopoly pricing power given to drug corporations and demand transparency from pharmacy benefit managers who run drug insurance programs.

While there are indeed potential unintended consequences to be guarded against, these can be ameliorated by limiting access to some data to government entities and by seeking aggregated data rather than information pertaining to specific…

We recently, the Senate Finance Committee leaders of both Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden, came together on the CHRONIC Care Act of 2017.

We all believe, I think, that Congress can act to solve this problem and to contribute to getting costs down for the consumer.

I do want to add my words of commendation to you and to the Ranking Member for the work you did to get this legislation passed.

Yes, I know, and I think most people who have had any experience with these kinds of cases know that it is often very subtle.