My name is jayish, the dean and director of the immigration justice clinic here at American University Washington College of law. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you to the law school and i offer that welcome not only on behalf of the law school but on behalf of our cosponsoring institution, the American University center for latin american and latino studies led by eric herbburg and dennis stitchcom and the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our Planning Committee representatives. Again, i thank you for everyone who has been [ applause ] yes. Thank you. For all of the hard work that the planning economy has put in to making this event such a success. Thanks to all of you. I know you have very busy schedules so i appreciate your willingness to be here. For those of you who were here, yesterday we had a series of enriching panels beginning to unpack some of the challenges facing migrant youths, some of the factors across the world as well as some of the ways in which the asy
[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule
Abrams with the Commonwealth Fund, and we thank them for their since medicaid was the medicareside program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching programs in our country, in terms of the number of people it serves as low as their health and life circumstances, and the cost of the program. It is run by the 50 states and territories within federal guidelines and financed by both the state and federal government. So while medicaid policy has National Implications it of course has major implications for states and their citizens as well. As we know, major changes to the Medicare Program have been at the forefront of recent Health Care Policy discussions and are included within legislative proposals in both the house and senate. Today we will talk about what those proposals are, how they would work, and what they would our in practice based on best evidence and projections. I just want to make a special note because while it is really easy for medicaid policy to get very won
Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter using the hashtag whats next for medicaid. For moderate today spent with me is melinda abrams, Vice President for Delivery System reforms at the Commonwealth Fund and we think the fund for the partnership in organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it is grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country, both in terms of the
Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter using the hashtag whats next for medicaid. For moderate today spent with me is melinda abrams, Vice President for Delivery System reforms at the Commonwealth Fund and we think the fund for the partnership in organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it is grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country, both in terms of the