Act and we look forward to your testimony. For the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape, makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients we advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare to the American People. Continue the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. In our committee played a firsthand role developing comprehensive legislation repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act passed by the house last may we delivered marketoriented solutions that would truly increase flexibility, reduce costs, and return control of health care to the American People where it belongs. All this bill stalled in the senate, congress continued to deliver relief from obamacare, including repealing the harmful effects of the individual mandate in independ
Near the fault line marianne . The epicenter was here in the Niles District of fremont right on the hayward fault. A fault that more than 2 Million People are living on top of. It was the rolling and you could hear it roar and it was one of those intense ones that you were scared. It got a little scary. I thought it would be one of those big ones we were waiting for. Fortunate lit quake that rattled people awake at 2 41 this morning was not the big one. It measured 4. 0. U. S. Geological survey says the epicenter was on the hayward fault. To miles northeast of fremont. These earthquakes occurred at a depth of about 5 1 2 or 6 miles below the surface. Scientists say the hayward fault which runes from San Pablo Bay to south of mall pit yas with an estimated 2 Million People living on it and the fault has been very busy the last 15 years. These yellow dots represent thousands of small quakes recorded since the year 2000. Distinctly different from the san andreas fault. Did todays quake re
He threw these two items over the balcony at the officers. He threw knives at the officers . These two knives right here. The officers then turned fired rubber bullets. How many . Five. Reporter tenants say when officers decided to let morales stay inside his unit not long after that they say he started the fire that spread through the complex. Residents say after that officers returned and morales was tasered and taken into custody, but it was too late. I think they should have taken him into custody when they were first here and this would have been prevented. Reporter morales father who asked his face not be shown and lived here with his son agrees. I strongly believe that if they would have apprehended him the first time all of this probably could have been avoidable. Reporter tenants acknowledge officers faced a tough decision and could easily have been criticized for a forced entry. Still, for some including nikki castillo, a wife and mother of three, the bottom line is were home
Pharmaceutical drugs in the United States and that is why many Peoples Health care plans have risen so people have to pay more out of pocket for what they need to treat various conditions. Because there has been a lot of anger that has emerged as a result of that, there is a fair amount of discussion in congress about possibly finally doing something to try to understand why prices are so high and to perhaps consider price controls to reduce them. The pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest injuries in the United States in manufacturing, is trying to stop legislation that would hurt their part of the sector. We looked at all the lobbyists that are convening on capitol hill to try to protect their bottom lines and how the net effect may be that legislation may not pass that will significantly curb the growth. Pedro let me read you a line from the story to help people understand how much investment from the industry is going on. We are building a profit on the line. The Health Produc
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