More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
The nasdaq off 95. The dow off its session lows but still taking a hit today. The uncertainty boosting gold prices above 1900 an ounce. Take a look at gold as well. 1900. Okay. We will also take a look at johnson johnson, merck, fiedzer and fiedz pfizer and regeneron, on pins and needles awaiting the president s announcement. Lets go straight to Edward Lawrence for a preview of what we are expecting to hear. Reporter exactly, the president signing any minute an executive order that in one way will get departments the look at ways they can further reduce drug prices going forward. Also, we have heard it may include the provision that connects the prices the u. S. Pays with foreign prices. The prices Drug Companies charge Foreign Countries. That is the deal exactly the president worked out between gilead in the United States where the United States will basically buy the entire supply of remdesivir. Remdesivir is a drug that helps coronavirus patients. The president puitched a simila ide
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you very much, everybody. Please. This promises to be a very big an very important meeting. So bear with me. It may take a little while. But it has to do with a thing called drug pricing and as you know congress has been working on this for decades an decades. And we are now doing something that is going to be incredible for the american public. Today, im taking a bold and historic, very dramatic action to reduce the price of Prescription Drugs for american patients and american seniors. Previous administrations did nothing, absolutely nothing. As drug lobbyists, special interests and Foreign Countries ripped off our citizens. Under the last administration, drug prices rose a staggering 55 . Thanks to my administrations aggressive actions since taking office, we have successfully lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years. But this reduction is still not close to what i w
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h