Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
Down Prescription Drug prices. The witnesses at the hearing, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry and advocates for patients. Good morning, everyone. The Sub Committee on health will now come to order. The chair now recognizes for five minutes for an opening statement. Last week our Sub Committee held a hearing to essentially follow the money in the drug supply chain. We came away with much valuable information, but we also found there are many secrets. Secret decisions about how drugs are priced. Secret deals between Drug Companies and the pbms and secret agreements between pbms and insurers. Today were considering seven bipartisan bills that essentially unmask the secrets, that secret process, and ensure that low income seniors can afford their medications and build on the drug pricing package passed by the house last week. The first and very important bill ensures that seniors can afford their drugs. Representatives cunningham and bill araukus introduced a creating lower c
Congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee on wednesday, july 17th, at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Hell testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan3 j online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house energy and Commerce Sub Committee on health heard from officials from two pharmaceutical trade associations. They testified alongside other policy experts. Good morning, everyone. The Sub Committee on health will now come to order. The chair now recognizes for five minutes for an opening statement. Last week our Sub Committee held a hearing to essentially follow the money in the drug supply chain. We came away with much valuable information, but we also found there are many secrets. Secret decisions about how drugs are priced. Secret deals between Drug Companies and the pbms and s
The airline says he tried to kill the engines shortly into the flight, but the captain and crew were able to get him into handcuffs and the flight was diverted to portland. Emerson lives in the bay area in pleasant hill. This is the outside of his home. Danya bacchus has the air Traffic Control audio from the shocking incident. Horizon making an Emergency Landing, eta four minutes. The call came sunday night. We got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit. Reporter an offduty pilot riding in the jump seat of the flight from everett, washington, to San Francisco tried to shut down the engines midflight. The jump seat pilot, who is the extra pilot they give a ride, tried to shut down the engines. Theyre Emergency Landing four minutes out. Doesnt sound like hes caused any issues in the back. I think hes subdued. We warned Law Enforcement as soon as we get on the ground. Reporter the flight was diverted to portland. 44yearold Joseph Emerson of pleasant hill, californ
Betrayal of Winston Churchill in the darkest hour and the director won the shape of water. We round up the days sports news, highlights of the fa cup and from the Winter Olympics. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The family of the murdered labour mp jo cox, have pledged to support her husband, after he resigned from charity roles following allegations of sexual misconduct. Brendan cox denies assaulting a woman in the United States in 2015, but admits to inappropriate behaviour while working for save the children. The charity has confirmed that he was suspended from his role there, and says he resigned before a disciplinary process was completed. Robert hall reports. Jo cox, labour mp and mother of two, was murdered in her constituency during the run up to the 2016 eu referendum, shot and stabbed by a far right extremist. In the months after her death, the public rallied in support of herfamily and in particular, her husband, brendan, who set up two charities, thejo Cox Foundation