Joe Pitts: “The Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR payment system, originated with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.”

The jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers.

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

This seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.