Programs i have the pleasure to welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in
To welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in the Bush Administration toge
With brexit continuing to be constructive, but any potential deal with the eu could be upended at home. Talks continue today in brussels. Strong countermeasures. China threatens retaliation if the u. S. Passes a bill opposing the situation in hong kong, and carrie lam had to prerecord her address after it was interrupted wise. And it gets better and better for roche, the drugmaker raising its outlook for third time as new drugs that boost sales, and we will talk to the ceo, severin hwan, about doing deals. That is at 8 00 a. M. Hello, matt. Matt about half an hour away from the european open. I am looking at the pound. We could see movement. We pretty much flatlined yesterday. There was the spike we saw at 4 00, right now hanging out just under 128. Lets take a look at futures. Kind of a mixed picture, not as red as we see in america. In europe, the dax futures are down 1 10 of 1 . Meanwhile, cac futures are showing a green arrow although unchanged, ftse futures solidly down. You see a
Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
Our second panel will assess chinas role in Global Health and activities in the United States. We will start with rosemary gibson, introduce everybody first and then we will go to ms. Gibson. We will start with rosemary gibson, whose name has been mentioned already several times if you were here. Who is a Senior Advisor pasting Center Perspectives at the jama internal medicine. She is author china rx, exposing the risk ab next we will hear from ben westhoff an awardwinning investigative journalist mr. Westhoff new book retinol incorporated how roby chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic. Will be published in september. The book focuses on that know with now kills more americans annually than any drug in american history. Our third panelist is jennifer buie who is a senior policy researcher and detained chair in china publicity stall is at the rain corporation. As an epidemiologist with training and clinical medicine and quantitative methods, doctor buie Researc