Cspan. Org coronavirus. All month on cspan, we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle and high school created videos students answer the question what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our grand pirze winners were jason lin, sara yen and amar karoshi, 11th graders at the Harker School in san jose, california. Where cspan is available through comcast. There winning entry is entitled command delete technologys damaging effect on democracy in 2020. [keyboard clacking] what do you think about the performance of tech company right now as compared to 2016 with respect to social discourse . It has gone downhill because the burdens have gotten heavier and their approach has not evolved as quickly as you had hoped. In 2019, 3. 5 billion people used social media to meet friends, post update, and read the news. Ironically, though created to connect us, the same technology instead increasingly divides our nations democratic f
He served in the Obama White House and is the former new York City Health commissioner and currently president and c. E. O. Of an Organization Called resolve to save lives. Well talk about that in a moment. To begin, dr. Frieden, with the debate going on in states around the country. Your advice as they look to reopen their economies, many casebycase, gradual basis . Were all eager to get out as soon as possible. Go out too if we soon, we could have a resurgence cases,s, an explosion of which could overwhelm our Healthcare Facilities with the lives of Healthcare Workers and to having to go back in for a longer period of time so the challenge here really is to at six different factors. First is, is the virus coming down . Are we seeing fewer cases and least twohs for at weeks . Second, is our Healthcare System so that if there is another surge in cases, we can manage those cases, helping to survive and preventing Healthcare Workers from becoming infected. Third, is there a Public Health
More authority and flexibility. Having Practice Medicine at the top of their licenses, as i recall. From the nursing perspective what are you hoping to have done on the scope of practice . I really appreciate that question. Scope of practice is a top concern for registered nurses across the country. As a union, we would fully support an increase in education and therefore following licensing to move other types of Health Care Workers into the registered nurse licensing fields. However what we are seeing in a lot of hospitals is employers trying infringe on scope of practice of physicians or Nurse Practitioners o r of registered nurses by having lower license, lower educated Health Care Workers start to take over duties that falls in the scope of practice of, say, an rn or a physician. We are c that mainly because of what it means for patient care. For registered nurses, im not a registered nurse. In this job, i have learned about the scope of practice of an rn and there very their very
Health care summit in washington, d. C. Please welcome Congressional Health care reporter for politico, ben leonard. Ben good afternoon. Good to see everyone again. Ben leonard, congressional reporter at politico. I am the coauthor of a newsletter really glad to be sitting down with representative wenstrup from ohio. Thanks for being here today. My pleasure. Ben we just heard from congresswoman kelly about weight loss drugs andther things going on. You are a podiatrist. We have a lot to get into from the pandemic and so much more. So yeah, just want to jump right in on the weight loss drug ■ni know you support medicare being able to cover the drugs. They can be pretty pricey. How do you hope to pay for that . Rep. Wenstrup one of the things we have discovered, and we have had cbo representatives come in front of the doctors caucus, and what was discovered is they dont know how to evaluate savings that come from acttheyo necessarily put a value to the Healthy Human life compared to th
Ephemeral legislation. Yeah. That went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think its the word of the week. Ephemeral or malodorous, its one of the two. Its still early. We have a couple hours ahead. Maybe we can find another one. Meanwhile, the Florida Governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trumps third president ial bid. Well show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. Is it desantis, is it December Desantis . Did he answer it . He did, and it was unrevealing. Huh. Republicans are still upset with Kevin Mccarthy over the Debt Ceiling Deal. Wah. One calling for a day of reckoning. Are you kidding me . It is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and Kevin Mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the United States economy hostage. They werent able to do it. These guys struck a deal, and struck a deal that passed overwhelmingly.