Screeria nigeria. Followed by King Abdullah ii of jordan speaking before the european parliament. The u. S. Commission on civil rights held a hearing monday about Workplace Discrimination against lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender employees. Well go back to the panel. Well now proceed. I want to first introduce the panelists in the second panel. Our first panelist is mr. Roger congratulation, president and general counsel for the center of equal opportunity. Our second panelest is kate kendall. Our third panelist is miss sara warblough. Our fourth panelist is miss stacy simmons. And our fifth and final panelist for the second panel is miss winnie stockleberg. Ill ask you all to raise your right hand teen swear and affirm that the information youre about to provide to sues true and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. Is that correct thank you. Mr. Clegg . You have the four. Event minutes. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today. My name is ro
Passage of such legislation to prohibit on the basis of discrimination on the basis of sexual or orientation or gender identity in the same way that title vii of the Civil Rights Act of 64 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or National Origin. In conclusion, Workplace Discrimination is a pervasive issue that prevents employees from meaningfully contributing their talents to our nations workforce. Workers who encounter antilgbt sentiments or actions are faced with a perilous choice of either hiding their lgtb identity in the workplace or risking discriminatory treatment and harassment by disclosing their lgtb identity. While eeoc protection take shape and agencies issue guidance it will take time for employers and employees to recognize the Legal Protection available. We hope that more data will be collected as we await a new legal precedent or legislation will set this matter unequivocally in the path. On behalf of the task force i would like to thank t
Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, broken record. Like the Roman Emperor who watched his city burn while playing fiddle, president is whistling past the graveyard as it increasingly fills with americans dead from covid19. Were past 3 million cases. A rising death toll is dampening whatever optimism the nation had only a few weeks ago. In the American South and south we felt, Trump Country usa is on fire with recordbreaking numbers. Florida shattered previous records for any states biggest single day recording of new coronavirus cases today, announcing nearly 15,300 new cases. Only three other countries have reported more new cases in a day than the sunshine state. But as we head into what could be a devastating week for the nation, the president is at best distracted and at worst focused on any and everything other than coronavirus. He spent his morning tweeting about his three latest obsessions. The radical left, statues, and mond monumrnts, as he called them.
Received through medicare and according to dr. Jason fullman and mr. Or dr. David rats are this unelected body will have the unprecedented ability to singlehandedly change the allocation of health care resurgence should medicare spending exceed medical inflation which for the record it consistently does. Dr. Novack what are your views on those ipaa i believe its called the independent payment Advisory Board . As i mentioned earlier its a serious area of concern. For those of us and from those families creating another new layer of bureaucracy making determinations about accessibility suspect in the right direction. I would add i think there is fairly significant bipartisan opposition to the independent advisory lord because of the way its structured. Their decisions effectively have the ability to bypass congress. Do you have evidence that competition and choice is a better way to increase value and reduce costs and the government bureaucracy and experts . I think theres a fair amount
That already on the provider side we spend enormous amounts of time as you mentioned enormous phonecalls trying to sort through these complicated issues regarding Health Insurance and by the way this is not just for people in the private market and not just for people on medicaid. Its equally true for people on medicare in the 130,000 regulations that go along with medicare. This is only going to grow and so at least for our practice since we have no idea what the exchange will bring in this 90day grace period issue is such an enormous issue for us that we dont feel we can actually see patients under these Exchange Contracts that we were pushed into without choice until this body or other bodies figures out what the rules are going to be so we can continue to provide service to be able to pay her staff. Thank you very much. Would the gentleman yield . Dr. Novack i just want to make it clear, under this 90day plan if you have lets say a 2 billiondollar practice that you pay all your peo