That is an absolute f to our seniors. People are being thrown off a cliff when discharged from an American Hospital because of their medications are changed, they have many tests and followups, they are overwhelmed by what has happened to them. Another case, less you think this is just a story of poverty this is a middle class woman and she was in hospital that is part of a five Hospital System that is connected electronically so doctors have instant access to the records any time a patit comes back and since 1996 this patient had 102 emergency room visits, 54 admissions to the hospital, 147 cat scans and 73 cat scans of the head. This is one of the cats can. That is enough radiation to increase your lifetime cancer risk and this is the middle class woman with a masters degree. So this is of failure of the American Health care system and that is what i have learned and beginning to explore the train of outlaw years of superit utilizes is. As people go more often we ignore them. We dont
Infectious disease expert with Johns Hopkins university. Kristen, i want to start with you. You had the reporting that todays briefing is supposed to be focused on test, and i say supposed to, because lets be honest, two days ago it was about the voice of america and we didnt know that was coming. I dont want to presume that this stays on track. What would the focus what is the announcement that theyre hinting at to you about testing . I appreciate the caveat, chuck. Its an important one. Youre absolutely right. We never know 100 whats going to happen until the president comes out and announces it. But based on our reporting according to three Senior Administration official, todays briefing is going to be focused on test, and we expect Task Force Officials to essentially argue that they do have the testing in place across the country to begin the phase one of starting to reopen the economy. Now, i also pate that theyre going to talk about and acknowledge the need to ramp up testing. Yo
Few months after another Blockbuster Telecom deal. Comcast to buy time warner cable, a deal worth 45 billion. To politics now and the race thats a long way from getting started. And the candidate washington cant stop talking about. Hillary clinton. Not even the race yet at least not yet, chatter today is all about remarks by republican strategist karl rove whos questioned the seriousness of clintons concussions from days as secretary of state. Erin mcpike is standing by at the white house. Sounds like Hillary Clinton is getting a tough reminder of 2008 very early on. Reporter miguel, she sure is. Massachusetts governor Duval Patrick was on cnn state of the union this morning and he suggested that that very thing, the inevitability factor going for her in 2007 and 2008, was a big turnoff for voters and hes worried about it again going forward. Now jerry brown, the california governor, was also on a sunday show this morning. He was on abcs this week and listen to the point he made about
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