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
Chapter 11 first 18, dodd said he would destroy anybody who destroys the earth. Do you hear christians talking about that . Host one more phone call on this. Independent from indiana. Caller good mine. There is really no choice deal here. We have a budget problem. A deficit problem. We have severe spending problems. Less and less and less taxes coming in. Consequently, we are going to be facing the sorts of issues on all sorts of these projects. Such as the epa, family planning, all of these things. These things are going to start coming at us and we are not going to have the money to pay for them is what is going on. We can kick and scream about the right and wrong, but the reality is these things may not get totally defund it, but i bet you they all get cut back. Lawmakers dont have much choice. Host that is dan in things montana. An independent color. We will leave it there. Up next, switching topics. Medicare. Last month marked the 50th anniversary. We will talk about two leaders w
And needs to continue to evolve but i dont believe we need some kind of fundamental new direction for fundamental restructuring of the program. Host ms. Wilensky, your final thoughts . Guest we didnt hear much from the people who final who really count, the people who are paying for medicare and are worried about whether it will be there or not. It was interesting to listen to those who are on medicare. The current recipients. But as youve indicated, the millennials, and many of the people under 65, dont believe the programs will be there for them, Social Security or medicare. It would be helpful if they would become more active in the political process. They have a lot of stake. They will be paying in no matter what. The question is what will be there for them when they get there. Medicare has been and are successful for the current Medicare Beneficiaries has been very successful for the current figure Medicare Beneficiaries. The unfunded liabilities are not small, even for washington
Training posture and both for military and rest of the economy. Again i think weve not been arguing for a certain size of the military been arguing for the competitiveness of the nation. Both on the military sides and also economically. I think that is a huge question that youre hearing in innovation space but also in skills and then the defense Manufacturing Base which i think were seeing there a, the Technology Side is now, i think lifted. The Manufacturing Base to an extent where it is now much more competitive than it was even though it is not hiring, to the same extent. There is real transition that is about the trend or, for Defense Budget but then what about the rest of the budget if and or, are there other sources for delivering these services that are needed so that we can leverage. Unless there are any final words, well recognize there are a lot more topics where we havent come up with industrial policy for solving the was ton nationals decline among other topics. We have ful