Coronavirus cases in the united states. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 21. I am sam baker coming from my home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like both following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator thune smith of minnesota. Smithr, senator tina of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Sam i would like to start off to frame this conversation obviously, Health Care Access and Health Insurance coverage has been a very hot topic for a long time, but i think the pandemic has set of
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The white house. What comes up then demick hotspots, while the infected president tells americans not to let 19 dominate them a candid one on one about the Deadly Health crisis. And the president ial race, how has it up ended with former Senate Majority leader bill frist like hes a heart and Lung Transplant surgeon, man, the host of the podcast. A 2nd opinion, he joins me from nashville. Stop right there. How has this affected bill frist like . Well, larry, its affected me like every everybody else has changed my ways of communicating or still been able to be very active. Ive had a son and a daughter in law with coded and thankfully they came through it well and their children had an infection as well. Nashville itself being a Big Hospitality town Service Industry town has been devastated. Things are slowly coming back, but it will be probably 2nd quarter of next year before theres robot talented back in the town. President trump has given himself an a plus for a sampling poll show abo