Director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the center for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as a healthcare advisor for john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joinin
Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
I will have to be strict with the gavel. The witnesses have a tight timeframe, i know you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up and every bit of it is obviously serious. The chair now recognizes herself for an Opening Statement let me begin with this, mr. Secretary. I think that confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of fairness the Coronavirus Response is on full display. Markets are reacting, in some part, to the lack of trusted information amongst many other factors. Our government has to speak with credibility and authority. Instead, it is like a greek chorus chanting through the state. That adds to the confusion. There are key questions that need to be addressed for the American People. What is the full plan should this virusinfected american in high numbers what is the plan for increasing diagnostic capacity . Limit
Wash authors april ryan and cal thomas sunday on book tv on cspan2. Health alec cesar health and Human Services secretary azar was in washington. He talked about the federal government response to the outbreak and testifying on the president s 2021 budget request. The second panel on the Coronavirus Response, those questions will be limited to five minutes, which is the usual case. Only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel. Since the witnesses have a tight timeframe and i know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up and every bit of it is obviously series. The chair recognizes yourself for five and its for an opening statement. Let me begin with this. , mr. Secretary i think that confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination for the Coronavirus
Policy conference. I am the director of the i amrch center and delighted to introduce the chairman and vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisors. In preparing for this session, i have a foundational commonality. He is originally from sweden. , am originally from minnesota the land of american swedes. Close enough. Currently on leave from the university of chicago, where he is a professor of public directs thees and program on Foundational Research and Health Care Markets and policies within the Health Economic initiatives. Severald in publicsector positions, including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of the food and Drug Administration and as the senior Economic Advisor to the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as the Health Care Advisor for senator john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joining us today. Start, it says on wikipedia that the chairman writes all 300 pages. If you would, please take