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
It wasnt the highlyanticipated speech from fed chairman Jerome Powell that sparkedy to intense selling. Instead, it was a new record ou tariffs imposed by the chinese ndvernment on goods President Trumps response to hike more tariffs on chinese goods. It all served to escalate the trade waretween the worlds two largest economies. That clouds the outlook f theon y and it rattles wall street once again. Here are the closing numbers for this friday. The d industrials down 623 points to 25,628. Sdaq fell by239, and the s p fell 75. Seema mody walks you through this day from the new york stoc exchange. It was another dizzying day for the stock market. Equity futures initially rose oe encouraging cs from fed officials but just befor 8 00 a. M. Eastern, china announced retaliatory tariffs firing the latest salvo in the trade wars. At 10 00 a. M. Astern stocksli ed off their lows briefly when the fed chair said that the fed would act as needed to sustain the economy. An hour later President Tr
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