Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
Hopefuls push for medicare for all, President Trump may roll out his own Healthcare Plan. Millennials are into social media, but they may not be social as you think. As the song goes, one really is the loneliest number. It is monday, august 5th. Fbn a. M. Starts right now. I love you. Wait for you. I love you. Yes, i do. Yes, i do. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning, im cheryl casone. Im deirdre bolton. Im in for lauren simonetti. Cheryl investors are continuing to worry this morning after that trade fight escalation. More on that in a moment. Look at dow futures, were down 370 on dow futures, and the nasdaq is down 143 and a quarter. Looks like its going to be a rough morning for wall street. Thats sending some investors into bonds. If you look at the 10 year treasury, its close to a threeyear low. Cheryl reports that the iranians have seized another oil tanker continuing to affect oil but surprisingly were a little lower on the contract this morning. 54, 76, a loss of 90cents.
About it before. Ive been a longtime student of the conduct of the office of the presidency. I knew mr. Reagan, both bushes. I was involved in both of mitt romneys campaigns, so not a stranger to the general have a lot of, i domestic experience, a lot of International Experience which i will tell you about but im not running because i think im the only person who can make a difference, im running because im troubled by the situation of our country and i think we are at something of an Inflection Point and i think the most urgent duty facing the next president is to seek to unify the country as opposed to dividing it. [applause] a bunch ofthere are things you can do there. One is to do what Ronald Reagan and certainlyshes eisenhower who i dont really remember, but a past generation wanted to make all americans feel good about being americans and thats not what the Current Administration is doing. Being is lackts of unity is washington is trying to divide this as opposed to unifying it s
Yale Law School Professor of health law. Got under way about 40 minutes ago. Live here on cspan. Move to mr. Gibbs. Let me say to our patient witnesses, again i want to thank you for being here. I think your testimony is so important. Mr. Cummings so often here on capitol hill we look at and we read about problems. But there is nothing like having people who go through it second of their lives. Mr. Gibbs. Thank you. Mr. Gibbs thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the committee, for giving me the opportunity to speak today. Today i have heard this law referred to as commonly is by the names either the Affordable Care act or obamacare. For me its important to call this law by its full name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act because the Patient Protections of the a. C. A. Have been a gift from god for people like me and families like mine. My Health Care Story begins in 1974 when my twin brother and i were born with serious medical conditions. He had a condition call
Think . This is interesting because the economy has been pretty stellar since the president has been in office. This isnt anything new. I think that, like you said, it is, the poll numbers are now catching up to this but it is interesting to be watching, still very early ahead of 2020 which is a lot of people are looking to these poll numbers for a lot of people close to the president s Reelection Campaign and those working to get him reelected tell me that the economy is the big key here. Theyre worried if anything changes in the economy, that could be a key thing, a key factor ahead of the election. Neil for now, it does, still have him on defense, Strong Economy or not, when it comes to oneonone matches. You point out to me, quite right saying, so, very early in the process. Early on is he not benefiting as much as you would think an incumbent president presiding over this type of recovery would be looking at. Its a trend i would imagine that he would like . Definitely. I think some