This should be terrifying.
I only say because he is not responding to the Senate grilling on lack of oversight in Medicare and Medicaid funding the pharmaceutical industry and its role in opioids.
HHS refused to respond to Debbie Stabenow about reducing the pricing of Suboxone. He refused to agree to reducing the price that was $1 in 2005 which is now a 4000% increase in price, with new presidential mandates that law enforcement carries it.
The Senators are going after the Medicaid grant funding to NGO programs where nothing really reaches the people.
There was a question about the Families First Act providing assistance to families, like it was designed to do, that has never happened, so the children are not Legally Kidnapped and put into Foster Care and Adoption programs, that are funded through NGO programs where nothing really reaches the people.
Senators just dropped "fraud & abuse" and asked how come HHS is not reporting it to CMS for investigation.
HHS just sat there.
Damn, Claire McCaskill just slammed Giroir for not doing anything about going after these pharmaceutical companies for fraud & abuse, and she even called the corporations out as being greedy from people dying.
She asked for an immediate rule to go after pharmaceuticals for Medicaid fraud; HHS grunted.
Dean Heller just put him on the hot seat asking about school, education youth programs for prevention.
Giroir kicked the responsibility to the states on how they procure services, which are privatized, and had could not respond to the child welfare component.
I keep watching to see if his sidekick Brandt is mannequin puppet because she is on point when it comes to dancing around an answer with him.
She is clueless and only follows orders.
Her tag line "this is something we have been looking at and believe a potential good tool..." I should have taken a tally on how many times she used this line.
Yes, she needs to go.
Griroir's response to what HHS is doing about child welfare services..."this is something we have been looking at and believe a potential good tool..."
I do not have a law degree so I have no Code of Ethics but my own of which to adhere, so...
Admiral Brett Giroir sucks.
Check his finances and past projects, he has deep privatization and child welfare background.
Here is a link to the hearing because C-SPAN blocked me.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?444267-1/health-officials-testify-medicare-medicaid-role-opioid-crisis&live
ADM Brett P. Giroir, M.D.
Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH)
ADM Brett P. Giroir, M.D., was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on February 15, 2018. The Assistant Secretary for Health leads development of HHS-wide public health policy recommendations, oversees 11 core public health offices — including the Office of the Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which has approximately 6,500 uniformed health officers who serve in nearly 600 locations around the world to promote, protect and advance the health and safety of our nation and our world. He also oversees three Presidential and 11 Secretarial advisory committees.
Dr. Giroir is a physician, scientist and innovator. He is a former medical school executive and biotech startup CEO, and has served in a number of leadership positions in the federal government as well as academia.
From 2014-2015, Dr. Giroir chaired the Veteran’s Choice Act Blue Ribbon Panel to reform the U.S. Veterans Health System. During the Ebola emergency, he directed the Texas Task Force on Infectious and Disease Preparedness Response.
He was executive vice president and CEO of Texas A&M’s Health Science Center from 2013-2015, having earlier served as vice chancellor of strategic initiatives (2011-2013) and vice chancellor for research (2008-2011) for the entire Texas A&M University system. A pediatric critical care physician and a former member of the American Board of Pediatrics, Dr. Giroir cared for critically ill children for 14 years, and was the first chief medical officer of Children's Medical Center of Dallas (now Children's Health). He was also a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 1993-2003, and held a number of positions in academic and hospital leadership.
Dr. Giroir has had a significant federal portfolio. He directed the Defense Sciences Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2006-2008. In this capacity, he worked regularly with the White House, Congress, and NIH, CDC, DHS and CIA leadership on national priorities, strategies and programs. He joined the office in 2004 as deputy director, and between 1998 and 2004, was a member of the Defense Sciences Research Council.
Dr. Giroir has authored or co-authored almost 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and holds patents on a number of biomedical inventions. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the U.S. Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the American Heart Association’s President Lyndon Baines Johnson Research Award and the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Annual Scientific Award. He was the nation’s high school debate champion in 1978. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard University in 1982 and a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) in 1986.
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