Howard Griffith

I believe they should not be prevented or discouraged from providing the service because of outdated reimbursement policies.

He certainly did. It was remarkable and memorable. I will certainly always remember that great attitude and just all his other great attributes that we heard about tonight.

Well, if you have language I would be very interested in it because I would like to blow up the way we do the reimbursements so we can blow up the medical system and make costs come down.

I think we have to take a look at the Stark Act.

I want you to think about ways we can help blow up and make the market more innovative.

A number of my constituents are concerned, but we also want to make sure we have hospitals because, if you shut one down, it's not like there's another one right around the corner.

Commissioner Gottlieb, of all the folks that we have dealt with at that level, is probably the most responsive that the committee has found.

We have to try to find that balance, because we have situations that, in all fairness, I wasn't aware that one of the solutions to resolve the problem was that we were going to have folks going and picking up drugs.

While we had criminal conduct by NECC, we also had timid lawyers at the FDA.

And I would just ask, in relationship to 503A, because we were talking about it earlier, if that didn't contemplate office use, then why has FDA allowed it up until this point in time?

I think sometimes we are talking at cross-purposes because I don't think any of us want to see somebody like NECC coming back.

As Ms. DeGette said, there has got to be a balance.

And I disagree, just based on the debate that we had when we were doing this a number of years ago in 2013, because we anticipated there would be continued office use.

This is why the Academy is supporting policy that ensures access to drugs for office space use, such H.R. 2871, the Preserving Patient Access to Compounded Medications Act, introduced by Congressman Morgan Griffith.

If you look at the timetable there on their chart... you told them you were about to do it, and 4 days later, they were, like, 'OK, OK, we'll do it voluntarily.'

We would no longer be dependent on China for a large percentage of our rare earth elements.

There is a lot of potential for coal in my district in rare earth and combining the two to create a product that is more profitable.

We made a bad deal. We got to fix it.

I think that is why we find ourselves back at the table, that we want to update and modernize NAFTA from where it was 30-some-odd years ago.

My district in southwest and south side Virginia was devastated by NAFTA, and we lost tens of thousands of jobs.

Without transparency, Mr. Merritt, I can't figure out for the life of me why the insurance companies can't deal directly with the manufacturers and the pharmacists and what value is it that you are adding?

I believe you all need a working group. Because if you all don't solve this we are going to come in and come up with an answer and it may not be an answer that you end up liking.

If that doesn't say that there is something stinking in Denmark, nothing else does.

It was an honor to fill in. It will also be a great honor, and I look forward to serving with you.

I think it can be done very safely.