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
House. On saturday, cbs news projected him the winner after a solid lead in pennsylvania giving him more than 270 electoral votes. Hours later, he spoke in delaware with Vice President elect. President trump is not conceding. He continues to questioning the results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud. Will President Trumps legal challenges affect the decision. There are the legal challenges and then there are conceding. Some say without the president conceding, they cant officially name joe biden and Kamala Harris the official candidates. Without that, there could be a delay in that transition. Without that, joe biden is wasting any time preparing for the white house. Our work begins with getting covid under control. Today he introduces his task force. That plan will be built on bedrock science and constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern. Former commissioner and former fda commissioner will lead the group. Joe biden will make good on his promises. Cbs has learned joe bi
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
Economy running at full speed again. Reporter joe biden says a team of 123 scientists, physicians and publicment experts will help guide his administration in dealing with the covid19 pandemic. He introduced his board, co chairs include dr. David kesler, dr. Murphy, Surgeon General under the Obama Administration and dr. Smith. Two others are doctors. All three have impeccable credentials. We have to interrupt the story and take you live to gavin newsom. Some cases in the high teens, 20, 30, 40 Positivity Rates. Its raised alarm, some concern, i want to jump in and give you the latest in our state. Our case numbers have been trending up as well. Theday average, 5889. Number of tested positive for covid19 yesterday, the number came in over 7000. 7212, that number was familiar four to six weeks ago. In the early part of october, we havent seen an average of 7 days above 5800 in quite sometime. Lets look at the Positivity Rate. As you can see, here the Positivity Rate, the passenger of peo
But in a good way. Plus, even when other battles end, you still cant fight the fed. So professor coe has another shield to protect yourself with. Options action starts right now. Lets make more lets get right to it. Despite everything that has been happening, what a week it has been health care has been flat lining for much of the year but carter thinks its time to yell clear carter, you are a doctor your prognosis lets see what it is. A couple of tables and charts. The first. What we know is sometimes one day says a lot what was the best performing sector the day after election day . Health care. Are there reasons for that sure maybe because obama care is less under pressure maybe there will be less regulatory pressures for drug stocks but this week its the second best performing sector only to tech take a look at the next table. Is it a good sector . Of all sectors, it has the strongest top line growth of all sectors in the past three years. How about valuation . Look at the next tab