Today and we welcome them. Lieutenant dingell, rear admiral bruce gillingham, surgeon of the u. S. Navy. Lieutenant general dorothy hogg, Surgeon General of the United States air force. Mr. Mccaffrey, assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs and lieutenant ronald j. Pace director of Health Agency and mr. Bill tinston Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and management systems. Today we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have members coming in and out. We are getting briefings on covid19 as we speak and theres a few other meetings going on. Your full testimony is available and i know members had it like i did last night to read through it. Well get start. Across is the spectrum of the military health care to benefit care in many cases the budget justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the sub
Coronavirus. The chairs authorized to have the committee and recess at any point. Good afternoon. Today the committee is meeting to examine the federal government response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. As a nurse i want to open by encouraging everyone to visit coronavirus. Gov. The most uptodate information from the center of Disease Control print mentioned. Keep us all safe. Wash your hands often with seven water or Hand Sanitizer dont touch her face, cover your cough, and avoid close contact with others if you are they are sick. We note that the spread of coronavirus has likely not yet reached its peak. It is affecting all of our communities. I dont think there is a person in this room was that worried about an elderly or an immune compromised relatives health, friends job, or Childs School closure. Just yesterday, the first two cases were diagnosed in the counties that i represent in illinois. Our job is members of congress is to keep americans safe. Im working with the executi
Following the meeting, health and Human Services secretary zar followed by democrat katie orter. Thank you for being here. We got some of the leaders of the task force that the Vice President is leading as well as senior medical and technical experts from the department. We just concluded what are now regular briefings that we are doing that are open to the full senate, open to the full house of representatives trying to make sure that we are being radically transparent what we know when we know it as well as the uncertainties we face. We acknowledge this is a time for concern by many people and trying to educate people about what we know and dont know in these times. We had a lot of discussions especially about testing. We are happy to provide you with more information and answer your questions as we did the house and the senate, because there has been some confusion around those issues and want to make sure everything is being clear. A major focus in both the senate and house discuss
Services secretary alex azar and Health Officials spoke to reporters about the Coronavirus Response and the latest on testing kit numbers after giving a briefing to lawmakers on capitol hill. Thank you all very much for being here. We had a lot of discussions especially about labs and testi. We are happy to to provide more information to answer questions around that as we did in the house and the senate because there has been some confusion around those issues. We want to make sure representative thing is very clear. A major focus is the senate and the house discussions today was around the issue of just the Patient Experience and a the provider, the doctor experience and we were able to point what was handed up from the cdc web site. Theres an information seat she directed patience is assignment of individual and concerned i might have covid19, what do i do . I dont think a lot of us are aware of that because we want to make sure senators and members of the house armed to be able talk
Everyone go to coronavirus. Gov for the most information uptodate from the cdc. Dont touch your face, cover your cough and ceases and avoid close contact with others if you or they are sick. It likely has not yet reached its peak but is affecting all of our communities. I think theres a person in this room ters who isnt worried about the elderly or immunocompetent on compromised. Just yesterday the first two cases of diagnosed in the counties i represent an illinois. Our job is to keep americans safe. And lead us strong federal government responseees including with a supplemental response to each of these developments we must continue to support the local is a Public Health departments the Emergency Responders to the front lines a starts with having reliable data to prepare for the Health System and how much equipment is needed for Health Workers and developing and disseminating clear at Risk Communication to thear public. America scientific expertise that is unmatched throughout thehe