Your screen when you hit play on select videos. This timeline told makes it easy to quickly get an idea of what was debated and decided in washington. Scroll through and spend a few minutes on cspans points of interest. Pecks next Senate Health Committee Discusses a shortage of Minority Health care professionals. The risk of Maternal Mortality among minority women. Beutler her republican congressman Michael Burgess speak on their experiences in advocacy on addressing the issue. How ethnic representation and healthcare bills of trust in minority communities. This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the
This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people in any other country. A 5 million americans today are uninsured or underinsured. We dont have enough doctors, nurses, Mental Health specialist, or pharmacist we have another crisis on top of all of that. That is, that problem lack of medical personnel is extremely, especially acute in latino and native american commutes which is the subject of the hearing today. Despite making up almost 14 of our population just 5 of all doctors in our country are black. Less than 4 of all dentists to default nurses in america are africanamerican. Despite making up ov
Speaking from my new, almost seven months perch as a federal official, i want to share that as a physician and Public Health practitioner, im speaking to you from both of those heads knowing my words are those of a person will always be herself as a doctor first. People who only know me as someone who works in government asked me, have you ever been a real doctor . I assure you, from the way in which i approach my work, that i still am. So know that i mean it and understand when i say i really appreciate this meeting and your work because what you do is so much closer to the people, the community, and the patients than i am at this point in my career. For the administration, so much of the work and progress of the past several years has been rooted in the belief passed down from generation to generation that we can continue to strive toward equity. And that we can Work Together to level the Playing Field for all americans. That we can give all of our sons and daughters, our families, t
Wrap things up. We are finished so i want to thank our distinguished panel for i think a superb outline of the challenges we face and certainly some good suggestions on what to do about it. I couldnt help but think it took us about 200 years of precolonial experience before we became a republic and ultimately a democracy. It takes a long time to really get to that point. 216 years ago, i guess, is when turkey as a nation started that climb, at the end of the ottoman empire. You had the big movements of what they call social reform. We will leave the tail end of this event to go live to a discussion on how the zika virus is affecting Womens Health care in the u. S. Of to by the center for American Progress just getting underway. In recent months, we have seen the zika transmission escalated in parts of the developing world and here in the United States. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the mosquitoborne virus has infected over 6000 people in the and territori
Well, this is the commonwealth of virginia today. Ringing any bells . In virginia right now, the election is not over, despite the calendar. We know that bishop e. W. Jackson is not going to be Lieutenant Governor in virginia. We know that Ken Cuccinelli is not going to be governor in virginia, but you know what . Ken cuccinelli is still the attorney general of that state, and that turns out to be really, really important, given that the election is not yet over. For the last generation or so, attorneys general in virginia have stepped down if they wanted to run for some other office in order to avoid a conflict of interest. One of the jobs of the attorney general is to help settle any legal disputes or any legal wrangling over elections and how the vote is counted. Thats a really awkward thing to do if you yourself are running in that election. So, all those guys stepped down. Ken cuccinelli, however, did not. Ken cuccinelli was never bothered by the prospect of having to weigh in leg