Live hearing start this week on russia and the u. S. Election elections. Tomorrow executives from google, facebook and twitter testify on russias use of social media before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Live at 2 30 p. M. On cspan three. Hearings continue wednesday is the social media executives testify before to committees. The first is at 9 30 a. M. Eastern before the Senate Intelligence committee and later at 2 00 p. M. Before the house intelligence committee. Both live on cspan2. You can also watch the hearings stream live online at cspan. Org or listen live with the cspan radio app. Former california congressman henry waxman talks about his experiences drafting healthcare legislation. That set rules for Prescription Drug prices. He served as chair and ranking democrat on the House Oversight committee. Okay. So i like to get started with our lunch keynote address. My name is aaron behind. Im an associate professor of medicine at harvard medical center. I run the program on regul
That focuses on pharmaceutical some laws and regulations and clinical all caps. Where the largest independent academic groups in the country. Its my pleasure to be here and i want to thank the American University putting together a great program. On the other sponsors which has been a fantastic conversation. We spent time talking about the future of healthcare policymaking in our lunch session will be focused on a particular area, pharmaceutical prescription drugs are the most costeffective interventions we have a medicine. Industry plays Important Role in bringing the products forward. In recent years prices have begun to rise which is made breakthroughs unaffordable for patients leading directly to bad consequences when patients are unable to afford their medication. It also makes up about 20 of healthcare spending overall. Fortunate to have one of the key players. To establish this current pharmaceutical marketplace and representative henry waxman who served in the house for 40 yea
And he says it can be the key to success for both the individual and for our society. Joining me now is dr. Frank farley. Dr. Farley is a psychologist with temple university. Hes a former president of the American Psychological association, and he has a special interest in the study of risktaking. Dr. Farley, thanks for being with us. Frank farley happy to be here. Rosemary so, you do have a name for risktakers, theyre called type t personalities. Explain that to us. Frank well, the t stands for thrill. And a lot of what goes into taking risks is the excitement value, thats not the whole story, but thrillseeking, risktaking, and so on. And think of there being big t people to use my terminology, big t people who thrive on risk, living on the edge. We all know somebody like that. Their opposite are small t, who are Rosemary Little ts. Frank little t, yes, and theyre riskaverse. And then, you know, a lot of the world falls in between somewhere, between the big t and the small t. Not all
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Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research