They, in the early days, didnt have the testing capacity. When it came online in meaningful amounts, it increased significantly. I think the big frustration in the u. S. Has been that there is this inability to go out and do widespread Disease Testing and surveillance. David explain that to me. We heard alex azar saying everyone who needs to be tested can be tested. Where are we on that . Weording to secretary azar, are in good shape. Drew that is misleading. All of the testing that is being done is essentially boutique testing, where someone gets a nasal and throat swab, and someone has to basically go and handle this sample. It is a human process. It is not the take a swab, it goes into a machine, and you are running 2000 of these a day, or a rapid strep test that you would get. That is where the real testing volume and surveillance happens right now. Even if there are test kits available, you still need the people available to run them, and that is a major bottleneck. David very hel
Gets underway at 7 20 a. M. Eastern. Whip steveity scalise was among the speakers at the annual conservative Political Action conference. He talked about socialized medicine and health care around the world. [applause] rep. Scalise good morning tell to all my friends at cpac. Welcome. Are you all fired up for 2020 . You ready for november . [cheers and applause] rep. Scalise yall know whats at stake. 2020 will be a contrast election, and there is no sharper contrast between the conservative principles and values our country is built upon , what President Trump has done to deliver for families through individual freedom and socialism on the others that you can see on full display in these debates. I hope they have a debate every other day said the country can see every aspect of your lives they want the government to take over. You dont want socialism. You surely dont want socialized medicine. There is going to be no sharper contrast between these battles, freedom versus covert and vers
Care system is broken and the polls say that 70 percent say it is broken. Right. I do think healthcare will be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll that just came out from gallup that said 35 percent of the American People polled rate healthcare as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen 53 percent of americans support singlepayer but now 65 percent are supporting the public option which is a supplemental Insurance Plan to compete i call it the steppingstone approach to government run healthcare. Host they say the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, my party were ousted as the majority in the house to make the argument regarding healthcare and many of us campaign on repeal and replace and unfortunately we did not get that done and that was shown at the ballot box. Exactly. Donald trump won the presidency to say we will repeal and replace obama care and it is a disaster turning th
Available podcasts. Thank you for joining me today. I have to tell you, i thoroughly enjoyed your book. I had the opportunity to read it and its obviously a timely subject. Obviously very important subject. Very. As you made know, im a pharmacist currently the only phenomenon pharmacist in congress so health care is something that is extremely important to me. Also important to the american citizens. I think everyone would agree we. They thought it was interesting you start by start off the book with the premise the Health Care System is broken, and if we look at the polls i think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say that the Health Care System is broken. Right, well, i really think that health care is going to be in the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll, just came out from gallup that said 35 of the American People polled weighed health care as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen in t
Took over the Canadian Health care system in 1984. No private coverage is allowed for anything considered medically necessary. Most things are medically necessary in health care. A couple of things that arent, cosmetic surgery if i want to make myself look younger, better, lasik surgery for your eyes. The prices have gone down, not gone up because the government isnt involved. In canada in 84 the government took over. I worked at the Frazier Institute where we started a project called waiting your turn a guide to hospital waiting lists. And in 1993, the first year, the average wait time from seeing a primary care doctor to getting treatment by a specialist, in 1993 that wait was 9. 3 weeks, just over two months. Today last year, 2019, the average wait time had increased to 20. 9 weeks. Thats over five months. And 608,000 canadians cross the border every year and pay out of pocket for getting mris, ct scans, orthopedic surgeries, hip replacements, heart, you know, valve replacements, th