The committee on health, education, labor and pensions 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, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf 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 of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
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Live coverage on cspan. All of our witnesses on the first and second panel are participating today. I apologize for being a few minutes late. We were in the middle of a two vote series so all of us at some point will get up and go vote and come back in my hope is we will be able to use this hearing regardless. I would like to particularly thank my Ranking Member and friend, senator tillis, and his staff for working so well together and putting this hearing together on a consensus basis. Today we are examining the patent eligibility act, our second drive through this ticket, and i am looking forward to a return. To a reconsideration of the court issues. More than 70 years ago, Congress Passed the patent act, and that law defined patent law subject matter very clearly. Congress intended to allow anything under the sun as made by man to be patentable. Other provisions in the act require that it should be novel, not obvious. Written descriptions served as defined filters, and that all chan
Live coverage on cspan. All of our witnesses on the first and second panel are participating today. I apologize for being a few minutes late. We were in the middle of a two vote series so all of us at some point will get up and go vote and come back in my hope is we will be able to use this hearing regardless. I would like to particularly thank my Ranking Member and friend, senator tillis, and his staff for working so well together and putting this hearing together on a consensus basis. Today we are examining the patent eligibility act, our second drive through this ticket, and i am looking forward to a return. To a reconsideration of the court issues. More than 70 years ago, Congress Passed the patent act, and that law defined patent law subject matter very clearly. Congress intended to allow anything under the sun as made by man to be patentable. Other provisions in the act require that it should be novel, not obvious. Written descriptions served as defined filters, and that all chan
Live coverage on cspan. All of our witnesses on the first and second panel are participating today. I apologize for being a few minutes late. We were in the middle of a two vote series so all of us at some point will get up and go vote and come back in my hope is we will be able to use this hearing regardless. I would like to particularly thank my Ranking Member and friend, senator tillis, and his staff for working so well together and putting this hearing together on a consensus basis. Today we are examining the patent eligibility act, our second drive through this ticket, and i am looking forward to a return. To a reconsideration of the court issues. More than 70 years ago, Congress Passed the patent act, and that law defined patent law subject matter very clearly. Congress intended to allow anything under the sun as made by man to be patentable. Other provisions in the act require that it should be novel, not obvious. Written descriptions served as defined filters, and that all chan