Good morning, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker pelosi good morning. Thank you all for being here. My apologies, it is like the middle of the day. There is so much that has been going on today already, but here we are to talk about something that is so important in the lives of the American People, their health. It is not only about their health, but about their financial health. When we ran in 2018, we said that we would do three things. We would lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting conditions. We would have Lower Health Care osts, these are paychecks by building the infrastructure of america in a green way. And, cleaner government with hr one that would make each possible which would reduce the role of dark money and politics preventing us from accomplishing goals. In the subject of health care, this was a reiteration on what we had run on in 2006. 6 for 06. One of those was to give the secretary the a
Opresident ial candidate joe biden met with families in lancaster pennsylvania to talk about health care and the Affordable Care act. Due to technical difficulties, this portion of the event is 20 minutes. The drawback is i can never tell the press reaction completely. Anyway, thank you all for taking the time. Do you mind if i take my coat off . How are you all doing . [inaudible] a little later about the Larger Program here but its all about making sure that we take care of making sure you and your families are taken care of. Who wants to tell me about their situation first . Fire away. I was nominated. Okay. Its all right if i [inaudible] sure. My name is amy and i am from pittsburgh. My daughter. Hello. I was diagnosed with stage zero Breast Cancer in july of 2017. Subsequently, i had a mastectomy and reconstruction and have had five surgeries since, various infections and implications. At the time, i ha have my own insurance with my employer. The bills were well over a million plu
The drawback is i can never tell the press reaction completely. Anyway, thank you all for taking the time. Do you mind if i take my coat off . How are you all doing . [inaudible] a little later about the Larger Program here but its all about making sure that we take care of making sure you and your families are taken care of. Who wants to tell me about their situation first . Fire away. I was nominated. Okay. Its all right if i [inaudible] sure. My name is amy and i am from pittsburgh. My daughter. Hello. I was diagnosed with stage zero Breast Cancer in july of 2017. Subsequently, i had a mastectomy and reconstruction and have had five surgeries since, various infections and implications. At the time, i ha have my own insurance with my employer. The bills were well over a million plus. After i entere enter treatment i was in sort of the recovery phase, i decided i wanted to go back to school, which meant i would lose my insurance. I enrolled in the university of pittsburgh, but because
What i meant by its not working is were dealing with Community Spread as a substantial number of people getting infected do not know theyre infected. Theyre not symptomatic. Theyre asymptomatic individuals. The classic paradigm of identification and Contact Tracing is very difficult to make that work under those circumstances. You superimpose upon that the fact that even with identification, isolation and contact trace, often the dots are not connected. If you get on the phone and talk to people who are in some of these communityus find that a lot of it is done by phone. When its done by phone maybe half the people dont want to talk to one who they think is a government representative. If you live in a community thats mostly brown or black youre in a different situation that maybe 70 of them dont really want to talk to you. You can identify a contact but you dont isolate them because you dont have the facility to isolate them. That is whats not working. So what were going to do, and we
Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you, madam speaker. I yield to my friend from maryland, the majority leader. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend from georgia for yielding. On monday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate, i repeat that because its unusual. On monday, 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business, votes expected to occur as early as 2 30 p. M. On tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business. On thursday, the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. The house will consider h. R. 1425, Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act. This bill will sig canly increase the a. C. A. s affordability, subsidies, lower Prescription Drug prices, expand coverage and crack down on junk plans. While strengthening protections for people with preexi