The highway, medicare and scattered showe social distance needed funding by 2031. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, ill call this meeting to order. Today the committee will hear testimony from the Congressional Budget Office director, phillip swagel, on cbos updated budget and economic projection. These projections account for the covid19 pandemic and legislation enacted in response to it, and provide a window into the future of our financial state. This is dr. Swagels first time testifying before the Budget Committee since becoming the 10th director of the Congressional Budget Office. Unfortunately, the pandemic has delayed having him appear before this committee. Id like to thank dr. Swagel for being here today and id like to thank the cbo staff for working to provide congress with informed estimates at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and unusual working conditions. Cbos updated budget projections confirmed what we all knew, that the economic disruption caused by covid19
He has also been a passionate advocate for the rights of individuals with disabilities. Ada amendments act of 2008 which president george bush signed into law and strengthened americans with disabilities act. He has served this committee with distinction and will be sorely missed. I look forward to continuing to work with him over the next year and a half as he completes his service in congress. I would now recognize the Ranking Member for any comments he may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I appreciate you doing this. For all the accomplishments that you just stated on my side its not only accomplishments of someone i can look over to the left and see on the wall of this committee, for me to be able to sit next to Jim Sensenbrener is one of the highlights of my career, in serving with him. It is often said when you have people you look up to and theyve played an impact on republican side would not have the frankly, the standing that we have, from whaeps done and over time. And it is so
202 7488000, Health Care Professionals we want to know what you are seeing, your line , ecigarette8001 users, this is about you and we want to know what you think about this ban on flavored isigarettes, your number 202 7488002. If you dont fit in those categories we want to hear from you as well, your line is 202 7488003. We can always be reached on , and you canbook also now text us from your at 202 7488003. Be brief and beyond topic, we will get you on the air. So President Trump on wednesday thatout publicly, and said he and the Trump Administration was considering a ban on flavored ecigarettes, on most of the flavors. Here is what President Trump had to say. We have a problem in our country, its a new problem [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [video clip] we have a problem in our country, its called vaping, especially as it pertains to innocent children. They are coming home, saying mom i want to vape. ,nd parents dont much about it nobody knows much about it
Reasons why health care is so unaffordable that all of the research pointed to, and that is not what the politicians are talking about. The Research Suggests that it is pricing failures, middlemen, and inappropriate medicare medical care. We need to talk about how to fix the broken Health Care System because people are getting crushed. People are getting hammered. Touredd the country the country and met with hundreds of folks. Patients in their homes listen to them about how the Health Care Systems devastated them, and it is a mess. I do not believe we are divided country and i do not think the choice is put before spy health care by politicians are the right choices. There is tremendous consensus and the consensus is that we need to address pricing failures. Us after theilled flight they would be gouging us. If airlines did not have to show a price, you would simply fly, and then they would send you a bill, and they would be gouging all over it. That is what is happening in health car
All the government would pay all the nations bills and everybody would have Coverage Area and a public option on the other hand would create a government type program like medicare like medicaid and more available. Right now you have to meet certain qualifications to into any of the government provided health programs. A public option would makeit much easier for people to get into government , government page. For the democrats debating on these issues, why are they so firmly advocating for these two positions. I guess what im asking, whats wrong with the Current System . Everybody agrees the Current System is not working well. People are paying too much, most people have insurance but substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their insurance because they have multithousand dollar deductibles so everybody agrees that we need to fix whats broken. How you do that, democrats generally agree that everybody should have hea