More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Someone else to do. The president is in belgium. , thee philippines president of the philippines is striking back. All of the island under martial law. It is likely to include the setting up of check noise, curfews and the ability for the government to jail suspects without having to take them before a judge. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Live from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york. Where 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u. S. Whatd you miss . Minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting show officials judging rate hike will be soon. Were still winning the budget announcement of the republican rittenhouse bill and what impact it might have on Health Care Coverage and consumer cost. Chinas we will hear where he sees opportunity in chinese markets. Lets look at where the major averages stand as we head towards the close. Abigail doolittle is standing by. Abigail we are looking at met
At 8 30, well get u. S. Housing starts and Building Permits for the month of july. Then talks begin between the United States, canada and mexico, get underway in washington with the first round of negotiations beginning at 9 30 this morning. And later in the day, the fomc will release minutes from its july 20 to 26 policy meeting at 2 00 eastern time this afternoon. But in the meantime, the fallout continues from the remarkable News Conference President Trump had here in new york yesterday, where he once again appeared to change his view on who was really to blame for the riots in charlottesville. And this as part of an attempt to refocus on infrastructure. Joining us from washington, bloombergs Senior Executive editor for International Economics and government. So marty, welcome back. I think its fair to say this was an extraordinary News Conference. I really want to focus on the fact that this was all to really focus on infrastructure. That was why he was there, we thought why he cam
Office as well. Joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the Bipartisan Policy Centers Debt Reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. So joe youre jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the Entitlement Programs and Interest Payments and how thats crowding out some of the other pieces. And so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward . Well, i assume that bill probably used this word already three times, the budg