I was struck by that searing statistic from your testimony on page 1: as of 2011, 1.5 million households, with 3 million children, reported cash incomes of no more than $2 per day,...
I think it is absolutely imperative we do not allow the same thing to happen to necessary medical care.
None of us is doing enough on this and certainly not doing as much as the people in front of us.
We need all of the other programs, but helping them to be able to provide for their families and investing in that opportunity is what is im...
The poor you shall always have with you.
You have 3 million more kids living in $2-a-day homes.
I thought Senator McCaskill put it very well when she said that if you had that pattern in robberies, law enforcement would be all over it.
Some of us had mentioned, as Senator Ernst did, national security.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations... the world's population will reach 9.1 billion.
So how do you deal with that price dynamic where, if you are aggressive on opioids and the price goes up, they will turn to heroin?
I just hope you use that leverage as a payer. And I know that is a startling number, Medicare through Part D spending $2.7 billion on opioid...