Breakthroughs unaffordable for patients and leading directly to bad clinical consequences when patients are unable to afford their medication, as well as driving healthcare spending with spending on pharmaceuticals assessments at about 20 of your spending overall. We are extremely fortunate during this lunchtime to have one of the key players in helping help establish this pharmaceutical marketplace and representative henry who has served as a member of the us house of representatives for 40 years, overseeing a number of important pieces of legislation, not only the [inaudible] act but also the orphan drug act, Prescription Drug [inaudible] and other pieces of legislation that helped establish the environment say. Representative serves as chairman and the Public Communications firm and a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of health. We are hoping he can talk with us today about his reputation as one of the most accomplished legislators and one the most drivers in the import
First of all, im an associate pastor at the Public Affairs American University and i am delighted to moderate this panel. Today were talking about private insurance subsidy first ever selection. Im sure everyone in this room knows prior to 2014 the private Insurance Market in the individual market was the wild west. People would buy Health Insurance that was fully inadequate and extremely expensive but on the other hand you had people with employerbased insurance who were very happy with it as the model if you like what you have, you can keep it. The aca was very much focused on changing and improving the private individual market but also preserving the employer supported Insurance Market. Today we will hear from for experts with unique and intricate knowledge about the development, implementation of the future of private insurance and individual market and elsewhere. You have their files and i wont read their list of expertise. First, we had joel michael, partner at mcdermitt, will a
Live hearing start this week on russia and the u. S. Election elections. Tomorrow executives from google, facebook and twitter testify on russias use of social media before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Live at 2 30 p. M. On cspan three. Hearings continue wednesday is the social media executives testify before to committees. The first is at 9 30 a. M. Eastern before the Senate Intelligence committee and later at 2 00 p. M. Before the house intelligence committee. Both live on cspan2. You can also watch the hearings stream live online at cspan. Org or listen live with the cspan radio app. Former california congressman henry waxman talks about his experiences drafting healthcare legislation. That set rules for Prescription Drug prices. He served as chair and ranking democrat on the House Oversight committee. Okay. So i like to get started with our lunch keynote address. My name is aaron behind. Im an associate professor of medicine at harvard medical center. I run the program on regul
Streak in a year. The euro is gaining. The danish krone is gaining and the Swedish Krona and the norwegian krone are declining. The yields are falling in the third column. Today. F data gdp, germany, powering ahead in the Third Quarter, underpinning the recovery and the wider eurozone with gdp up. 8 in the estimate was. 6 . That equates to 2. 8 year on year. That is the blue bar confirming the but despite prediction the German Economy carried its strong growth performance in the second half putting it on course for its best year since 2011. Said, theng, as i european economies performance with gdp in the eurozone up. 6 in the quarter, in line with the earlier estimate. 2. 5 year in year, chugging along, the german and the euro zone economy. Gdp data out of italygdp accelerating in the Third Quarter. Grew,ual basis, economy the most since the First Quarter of 2011. And that underpinning the attractiveness of italian debt. This is the difference between germany and italy, the 10 year dow
Story, if i have to say so myself. At about 16 years old, i was actually paralyzed by a tumor in my third vertebra. They rushed me up to riley Childrens Hospital up in indianapolis, indiana. Specialists told me that id probably never walk again. I spent quite a few years laid up in the hospital. It was a miraculous recovery. A surgeon came in from germany. They removed my third vertebra and literally built me a new vertebra using my pelvis used oneinch squares and built me a new vertebra. Well, mike, i was in the hospital at 16, and after the surgery, they put me in a fulllength body cast from head to toe, and when i left the hospital, i weighed 105 pounds. Now, a lot of people hear that story and im very proud of being able to recover from that. But that was just the first step in my life into the health industry. As i was going through rehabilitation for my back, my father went into the hospital for his first openheart surgery at the age of 43. So, mike, that really scared me to deat