Bali because we go back a ways as a change agent experienced in leading change in complex Health Care Systems and networks. He is committed to improving the Patient Experience and drives initiatives focused on clinical care, Quality Improvement and systems redesigned mouth at Johns Hopkins medicine. Fda, led the department in the transformational journey to provide veterans with easier access to both the va care in private or cared that he oversaw the vas community of care network, which includes about half a million providers, academics and Community Networks and expanded telehealth across our vast system of care, treating about 1. 5 million patients annually. A significant improvement that was done in terms of providing access to care and increasing access to care for veterans. He is a nationally recognized expert in hiv medicine and health equality. He has published over 150 abstract chapters in leading journals. He has made important contributions to the understanding of Patient En
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Is now my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you the president of the United States of america, president donald trump. [applause] [applause] thank you very much. Thank you, mike. I really appreciate everything and i appreciate you being here but i especially want to thank secretary elaine chao, leader kevin mccarthy, thank you, kevin. Chairman bill shuster, thank you very much, bill, and all the members of congress, many of them here today, for joining us as we prepare to enter a great new era in american aviation. [applause] its about time too, i can tell you. But before discussing our plans to modernize air travel, i want to provide an update on our efforts to fix and modernize Vital Services for our veterans, our great, great veterans, who we all love. For decades the federal government has struggled to accomplish something that should be very, very simple, seamlessly transferring a veterans medical records from the Defense Department to the veterans groups and to th
Come to order, without objective, chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically heroin and prescription pain relievers are the cause of most Overdose Deaths in the United States with a death rate more than doubling since the year 2000. In south carolina, which is where im from, at least 95 people die from heroin in 2015 which is almost twice as many as the Previous Year and more than 5660 died from the abuse of prescription opioids over the same period of time. 0 died from prescription o