She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
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Home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Insurance has been with us for a long time but how has the pandemic shaped how you view this problem of health care coverage. Do you see that differently now . Sen. Smith here we are in the midst of a Global Pandemic. Thatt is the pandemic asserted in my home to state of minnesota and the upper midwest that is surging in my home state of minnesota in the upper mi
Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
House. And banks ahead of a slew of earnings reports today jp morgan and citi tomorrow before the open. 59 minutes left in the session sara and we are higher across the board. The banks stocks up close to 3 for some of them 3 up for the nasdaq. Best day for the nasdaq since april. Coming up, the ceo of ho logic plus we will speak with the council on Foreign Relations richard haas about how the handling of the pandemic in the United States is being viewed by the rest of the world and how it influences geopolitics first an update on the stories we are watching. Mike mike tracking the market action, ylan moi with the latest on the stimulus negotiations and more on the coronavirus treatments mike, what is driving this rally . Good question is it possible to have a low volume buying panic . Thats a little bit what it feels like today certainly the nasdaq doing most of the work. The big cap tech stocks. Look how it aektsds affects the 17ds it looks like an acceleration higher out of the trad