Joe Pitts: “How much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 30 seconds remaining.”

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.

I thank my colleague, Rep. Pete Olson, for sponsoring this important legislation which will be welcome news for the over 100,000,000 people afflicted with diabetes or pre-diabetes.

This is frustrating and alarming.

Trauma is the number-one cause of productive life years lost, greater than cancer or heart disease.