[inaudible] okay, thank you. The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pensions will come to order. This afternoon, we are going to hear from two panels. We are going to hear from, on our first panel, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, rochelle walensky, and robert califf. Second panel, we are going to hear from doctor Reshma Ramachandran and dr. Martin makary and dr. Marshall. Let me begin by thanking all of the folks on the panels. All of us know that the last three years have been unprecedented in our lifetimes martin makary, we dealt with the worst Public Health crisis in 100 years, i want to thank all of you under those difficult circumstances. Today, what our job is, is to take a hard look at where we are today, in terms of preparing for another pandemic. And the need to reauthorize the pandemic and all hazards preparedness app act. And i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the previous leadership, senator murray, who was chair of the committ
[inaudible] okay, thank you. The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pensions will come to order. This afternoon, we are going to hear from two panels. We are going to hear from, on our first panel, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, rochelle walensky, and robert califf. Second panel, we are going to hear from doctor Reshma Ramachandran and dr. Martin makary and dr. Marshall. Let me begin by thanking all of the folks on the panels. All of us know that the last three years have been unprecedented in our lifetimes martin makary, we dealt with the worst Public Health crisis in 100 years, i want to thank all of you under those difficult circumstances. Today, what our job is, is to take a hard look at where we are today, in terms of preparing for another pandemic. And the need to reauthorize the pandemic and all hazards preparedness app act. And i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the previous leadership, senator murray, who was chair of the committ
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] lets continue our second panel, and we thank our panelists for being here and for sitting through the first panel. Before i introduce our panelists, let me to say a few words. I think sometimes it is important to take a 30,000foot look at the systems under which we live. And we dont do that often enough. We deal with crisis by crisis. In my view, we are living with the Healthcare System which is broken and which is dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country on earth. 13,000 every year, which is unsustainable. And yet despite that, 85 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. We are seeing in many parts of this country, unbelievably, above and beyond covid a decline in our life expectancy. We have half a million americanv whoever your experience bankruptcy which is related to the medical debt that they have.
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