To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
How do we get most children gun violence dies in the United States. It is complicated. There is not one thing we can change. This is a very complicated and complex issue. It is incredibly lyrical. It is incredibly driven by money. It is driven by very powerful corporate interests that is good at what they do. We currently have a congress that is in the grip of the gun lobby. But itot only congress is state legislators. Governors, city council, mayors. Happens to be the president of the United States. Currently. Not currently. It has been in the past. What all of us need to recognize is that elections matter. So gabby i took a look at all the candidates that are running for president and as we all know there are a lot of them. There are less every single day which is good. It is very clear and does not take long to figure this out. There is only one candidate that has the record and experience to stand up to a very powerful corporate interests. That is why gabion i are here today to enc
Secretary of defense for Health Affairs who oversees the pentagons 50 billion military Health System that includes more than 130,000 doctors, nurses, and Health Professionals who serve military members nationwide. He is of his his readiness as one of the nations leading vascular surgeons. Thanks for having me here. Vago obviously, you decided to launch the initiative because it indicates you still have continuing challenges. How do you assess the heart health of the fourth overall and africanamericans in particular . Dr. Woodson our main focus is to produce a healthy force that can do the nations bidding and defend this nation. We are really committed to prevention. We have a number of initiatives that we have undertaken to create healthier environment, educate Service Members on how to remain healthy. We have undertaken initiatives to change diets and so the healthy thing is the easy thing to do. Vago but how would ussr health in general . How would ussr health in general . Would you
Think that we would be a lot more successful by now and for us they are doing it at the local level using the county stakeholders and we are very fortunate that we have the counties support to allow us to tap into these different resources but we have to replicate that acceptability in every county and in every city if it doesnt come topdown. Typically at the end of the four runs people leave more depressed than when they came. At times we have been accused of designing before in the floor in the program to make people more worried. I dont know about everybody else, but i at least am more optimistic and hopeful and i think that we should end this on an upbeat note so please join me in thanking our speakers and i look forward to seeing you again and i can promise you that it will be less optimistic. Plus a live picture from the Brookings Institution as we bring you a discussion this morning on the military Health Care System we hear from a number of Defense Department officials as well