Effective in preventing the disease. Pres. Trump thank you very much. This is a very big announcement, the biggest ever concerning drugs and drug pricing. So today i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of centers for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american s
Welcome to the virtual healthcare 20 21 a. M. Sam baker the editor hear from axios think of making this possible and welcome to our audience on you to twitter and axios. Com. Also follow along on twitter during the next 30 minutes will impact the best ways to expand Health Insurance access and coverage and exactly what that path looks like following a president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. The first guest today is senator smith from minnesota thank you for joining us. Thank you i enjoy being here today. I went to frame this conversation. Obviously Health Insurance coverage has been a hot topic for a long time. And with that gap in the system with millions of people lose their Health Insurance and the economic downturn the flex not just those people that family members and their Health Insurance. So i am just curious how has a shape to change the way specifically of healthcare coverage . To see that differently now . You raise the right point here
Cnns justice correspondent Jessica Schneider is following this. What more can you tell us, jess . Reporter brianna, since this happened on january 6th, the fbi has been releasing more and more information. Theyre now saying the bombs were placed near both of those headquarters, dnc and rnc, between 7 30 and 8 30 p. M. On january 5th, the night before the capitol attack. Authorities have been hunting for whoever placed these pipe bombs now for more than three weeks. Today is the third time theyve increased their award for tips leading to any arrest. It is now 100,000. This really speaks to how much difficulty the feds are having tracking this perpetrator you can see in this picture. This is the picture that has been released from the fbi. And now the fbi releasing a bit more detail about the picture itself. Theyre saying the suspect is wearing a light sweatshirt, their face and head mostly covered. As you can see there, that is Surveillance Video that was obtained by the washington post
Whats been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Guest its been around some people think the early 1920s. There was a lovely picture in one of the magazines, not popular science. They had different name for it then but it shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with a doctor on the other side. The concept is been around for a while, the late 60s when it got going and it has puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when of course we told everyone in the u. S. They had to stay in their home, and we as clinicians had to take care of them. So blossomed overnight. Host how can it be used today . Guest they can be used in number of ways. The best uses worst of all Mental Health is the number one probably used and the diagnosis is growing need so thats wonderful. A lot of urgent care type things such as sore throats, earaches and actually screening for the coronavirus is quite handily done using this type of technology, so virtua
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