Gene Green: “I say, that is not a Texas value, if we can sell it to someone or build a plant.”

Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding today's hearing on the Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act.

The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was a thorn in the side of Medicare and doctors who treated Medicare patients for over a decade.

Neither these bills nor the Committee's other efforts have gone far enough to address many of the underlying challenges facing this sector.

Maternal mortality in our country has more than doubled between 1987 and 2014, from 7.2 to 18 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.