I meeting of the Health Service system board. To order for may 20 5 2023. Would you please stand and join me in saying the pledge of allegiance . Watch allegiance to the flag. Of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Before we begin our roll call for this meeting. I would like to introduce a new member. Of our board. Ah as you know, we have elected representatives and appointed representatives and one of the appointments is that we must have a member of the board of supervisors. And after much diligent searching, we found one and hes with us today. Thats uh, district district six supervisor met dorsey. I just like to give brief bio on supervisor dorsey. He has a large long City Government association, both with the San Francisco Police Department as the communications director. And then serving for nearly 14 years and over 14 years in the city. Attorneys office, where he helped to support
23rd on book tv on cspan2. Up next, the conversation from the Bipartisan Policy Center about Patient Centered research. How to provide the most effective medical treatment. Well hear from doctors of the Veterans Affairs department, John Hopkins University and heartfelt patient. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. It is great to see olivia here today. Im the chief medical advisor and i want to welcome all of you to todays event. For those of you who are new to bbc. We want to come by the best ideas from both political ideas to promote health and security for all. Todays event is being streamed live online and on cspan2. A recording will be available later this week. We invite you to interact with us on twitter about todays event using the bpc live. Well be taking questions after the panel discussion. If you are watching online and have a question for our panelist or opening speaker you can use bpc live and we will try to get to those during the q a. Over the next 90 minutes will be di
23rd on book tv on cspan2. Up next, the conversation from the Bipartisan Policy Center about Patient Centered research. How to provide the most effective medical treatment. Well hear from doctors of the Veterans Affairs department, John Hopkins University and heartfelt patient. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. It is great to see olivia here today. Im the chief medical advisor and i want to welcome all of you to todays event. For those of you who are new to bbc. We want to come by the best ideas from both political ideas to promote health and security for all. Todays event is being streamed live online and on cspan2. A recording will be available later this week. We invite you to interact with us on twitter about todays event using the bpc live. Well be taking questions after the panel discussion. If you are watching online and have a question for our panelist or opening speaker you can use bpc live and we will try to get to those during the q a. Over the next 90 minutes will be di
Them harder. I think we would welcome legislation to reform that area. But if we come in a blunt instrument, suddenly recreating the fda authorities or mandating things on the fda or looking for the department of health and Human Services to do things that theyre not equipped to do and then, of course, we dont fund them to do it, i think we have to be cautious about some of the legislation that may be proposed. More than anything we want government to be there to work collaboratively but we still have to recognize the safety and efficacy that American People and most people here would certainly think is necessary for a new product. We want those products out as quickly as possible. I remember the days when we had the first evidence of the aids epidemic and the people that brought home the reform and fda to get some of these therapies out quickly were the act up groups of the gay community. They studied the law of fda and argued you dont need to take so long. You dont have to wait till
Higher costs for Prescription Drugs, higher costs for preventative services, reduced benefits and a Medicare Program that would go bankrupt nearly ten years sooner. The Affordable Care act is working to help seniors with their expenses and keep the costs of health care down. We need to improve and build on the progress the law has made, not argue over tearing it down. Because this shouldnt be about politics. This should be about keeping the promise that we made to our seniors. Its about building on that promise, and i will continue to fight for them. Mr. President , i yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy thank you very much, mr. President. I appreciate my colleagues, senator warren, senator schumer and senator murray for joining us on the floor today. I think we will be joined by senator stabenow in a few moments. I appreciate them also being at an event we did yesterday in which we were kicking off the Affordable Car