Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
To adopt the new state restrictions before things get even worse. That leaves neighboring napa along with solano and san mateo as the only bay area counties still open for things like Outdoor Dining and personal care services. There is hope on the horizon, california is set to receive 328,000 initial doses of the Pfizer Vaccine starting tomorrow. Of those, about one in five is earmarked for the bay area. Getting those doses here is just the first challenge. Wilson walker is live outside of Good Samaritan hospital in san jose with the security concerns coming along with them. Are they afraid people will rip them off or Something Like that . Reporter that is just one of the concerns, you can drop an entire list of things that can open the potential for any number of crimes. You can be sold fake vaccines, adjust a number of things. So long with the logistical complications of rolling out this vexing, its also been called the largest Cyber Security threat in human history. Now is that hype
She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
Welcome to the virtual healthcare 20 21 a. M. Sam baker the editor hear from axios think of making this possible and welcome to our audience on you to twitter and axios. Com. Also follow along on twitter during the next 30 minutes will impact the best ways to expand Health Insurance access and coverage and exactly what that path looks like following a president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. The first guest today is senator smith from minnesota thank you for joining us. Thank you i enjoy being here today. I went to frame this conversation. Obviously Health Insurance coverage has been a hot topic for a long time. And with that gap in the system with millions of people lose their Health Insurance and the economic downturn the flex not just those people that family members and their Health Insurance. So i am just curious how has a shape to change the way specifically of healthcare coverage . To see that differently now . You raise the right point here