cancer treatments are treated. in these cancer clinics, government medicare helps to pay the cost of chemotherapy drugs, which are very expensive, right? right. very expensive. when people are reading about sequestration, they ll focus on the economic terms. it s hard for patients to understand cancer clinics are a small business. a practice administrator had to order your drugs so they were kept in inventory and ready for you when you came in to be treated. so, this is all part of the care setting. so, the clinics, they buy the drugs and then they sell them at a very small markup to patients. correct. and that markup is what allows them to stay in business, essentially, and that s now being slashed by the cuts to
are going to these community onkolg clinics, right? that s correct. for the viewers who aren t familiar with what we say, these are the private practices within people s hometowns. this is where the joirtd of cancer treatments are treated. in these cancer clinics, government medicare helps to pay the cost of chemotherapy drugs, which are very expensive, right? right. very expensive. when people are reading about sequestration, they ll focus on the economic terms. it s hard for patients to understand cancer clinics are a small business. a practice administrator had to order your drugs so they were kept in inventory and ready for you when you came in to be treated. so, this is all part of the care setting. so, the clinics, they buy the
on anything ever and all of a sudden last week when they started hearing from folks who had been stuck on tarmacs for a few hours or stuck in airport terminals for longer than they d like, all of a sudden the house and senate move like that. go ahead. now we know they re capable of it. they ve been holding back. right. but you have to ask what about the kids on head start, what about the people in cancer clinics, what about the other people in the sequester who are not don t have the ear of congress. congress themselves, the members of congress themselves are not affected by this. they clearly acted out of self-interest when you mean they didn t want to stand in lines when they went home for recess? unfortunately because the president signaling he was going to sign this, he lost his last bit of leverage. so he s lost a major bargaining chip when it come doings these senseless cuts. bob and amy, you raise an interesting point about the president. i want to share somethin
various ways the most vulnerable americans have been hurt by the automatic across the board spending cuts called the sequester. remember this washington post headline, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of medicare patients. blame the sequester. huffington post listed 100 places across the country where cuts are hurting sacramento schools which will see special education cuts and west virginia program to end poverty. stopped all new projects until september. but this week when frequent fliers were inconvenienced that got congress moving with lightning legislative speed. the senate, then the house passed a bill that would ease flight delays by putting furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. today on the house floor, maryland s steny hoyer was outraged. while i was to end these delays for passengers in maryland, across the country, i will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester.
sequester. remember this washington post headline, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of medicare patients. blame the sequester. huffingen to post listed 100 places across the country where cuts are hurting sacramento schools which will see special education cuts and west virginia program to end poverty. stopped all new projects until september. but this week when frequent f fliers were inconvenienced that got congress moving with lightning legislative speed. the senate, then the house passed a bill that would ease flight delays by putting furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. today on the house floor, maryland s steny hoyer was outraged. while i was to end these delays for passengers in maryland, across the country, i will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester. let me share just a handful of examples of how the sequester will affect americans. education. head start. 70,000 children will be kicked out of head start.