Laters, Veterans Issues either convention at a convention in maryland. Booktv is television for serious readers. The sunday on indepth code pink cofounder medea benjamin. Join our three hour conversation. We will take your phone calls even old, and tweets. Then on saturday, we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival followed on sunday with lynne cheney. Those are some of the upcoming programs on cspan two2s booktv. Senator alexander a representative gordon were part of a recent forum on medical innovation. From the Bipartisan Policy Center, this is one hour and a half. Dr. Frist good afternoon. Today, we are going tos spend the next hour and a half talking about advancing medical innovation for a healthier america. How do we accelerate that innovation to the future . The United States has been a Global Leader in medical innovation for decades. Yet, tens of millions of americans have neither cures nor effective treatments for their diseases. This includes patien
Bill frist and had the opportunity to watch firsthand governor alexander work was a pretty rowdy Democratic Legislature and tennessee that he came forth with education reform, with infrastructure, investments, industrial recruitment. I think regular order is back in the senate and will be a better country for that. Is fortune is going have a good partner in the house, someone for the good fortune to settle the Energy Commerce committee with, diana degette, and diane reminds me, when i think of her i think of a story my grandmother may read the of the detention a good. I think i can, i think i can. I know i can. Thats diana. Come forth with a major bipartisan vote in the house. Senator alexander come to the good partner and diana, tell us whats going on with you. [applause] thanks, part. Im so happy to be here. They dont invite us to come over from the house very often so its really a treat for us. Im so happy, lamar, to hear your reflections on some of these issues, because to some of
I want to echo the Ranking Member for her comment. We want the best care for our parents and theyve earned it. Im hearing an opportunity in the next 2030 years to affect the debt. Like some of you, i have a personal experience to this. I do have a mother and [laughs] shes 89. Shes very tech savvy, this aging in place is a new phase for her. My wifes mother is younger and has been diagnosed with alzheimers. Im very excited about what you are doing with the va. You have a Perfect Laboratory to answer some of these questions that youre hearing typically about cost, acceptability. Sometimes in denial about need. Secondly, you have a medical staff that might be less than receptive potentially to some of these new technologies or not. Maybe its a perfect lab to develop these. I would like to get your experience about cost, general experience and medical staff that you deal with. We have an example of a device that would be in place in veterans home. Im not going to turn it on. This monitors