Tim Murphy

This is a life-and-death matter, so I wanted to be here.

There was no oversight through the appropriations process.

The states received $5.51 billion in federal taxpayer dollars to set up their own exchanges.

Despite this enormous taxpayer investment, state exchanges are still struggling.

This is compensation without limitation.

The states received $5.51 billion in Federal taxpayer dollars to set up their own exchanges.

This is completely unacceptable.

As Yogi Berra said, it's like deja vu all over again.

As I said at last year's hearing, this is completely unacceptable.

But luckily no one has died yet from this, but we really have dodged the bullet for a long time.

I request unanimous consent to remove the following Members as cosponsors of H.R. 2646: Representatives Joyce Beatty, Ron DeSantis, and Zoe Lofgren. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bishop of Michigan). Is there objection to the request of the…

I would like to know what steps CMS is taking to root out the providers who are prescribing children powerful psychotropic medications when it isn't medically necessary.

I think this committee does its best work when we are united, and it is clear that that is the case today.

This provision strikes the right balance to protect the integrity of the Part D program and improve patient safety, while carefully protecting beneficiary access.

However, the failures that we will hear about today go far beyond lost dollars and cents, rather, they are helping to feed the prescription drug abuse crisis that is gripping the country.

It is this subcommittee's hope that we will hear concrete plans from you on how you will go about accomplishing this task.

We need to take a closer look at those numbers and make sure that this program is not contributing to this devastating epidemic.

We are here again today to discuss an ongoing problem with our entitlement programs--waste, fraud, and abuse--this time in the Medicare Part D program.

His case was one where he took his son to a hospital in Virginia, and the hospital said we don't have any beds.

If we close the institutions down, we don't have enough hospitals because Medicaid has said you can't have them.

We will not be silenced. We will make some changes here.

Let's join together and recognize that we have to make sure that those disappearance of their lives shouldn't be a disappearance of our passion and our dedication to this.

What we do is we elevate SAMHSA from an agency to having Assistant Secretary of Mental Health and Substance Use be the head of that.

Mr. Murphy. Mr. Chairman, just to correct the record on the misrepresentation or perhaps misunderstanding about abortion.

We need to have an accountability structure to see how they are doing, and I appreciate that also being in this legislation.