This opioid and, frankly, a larger substance use disorder crisis is hitting every State.
Robert Casey
The Public Record
I know that we hear a lot about the barriers to accessing treatment being stigma, limited availability of providers, high out-of-pocket costs.
In one rural county I was in back in August... the coroner saying we do not have enough places to put the bodies.
Our healthcare sector is already near capacity with this flu season. So we are woefully unprepared to respond to a mass casualty, biological event.
AAP thanks Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Casey for their strong leadership on the Federal Emergency Medical Services for Children, or EMSC, Program.
HHS has developed a list of hundreds of other actions to sabotage health care for people nationwide.
I voted against your predecessor because he had commented negatively about Planned Parenthood, CHIP, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act.
I want to especially thank your family and your extended family for their commitment.
Patients who need drugs--who cannot afford to go without them, without risk to their life or health--are treated as hostages by pharmaceutical companies in some circumstances.





