A Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. To this newdjusting way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as it goes through and think the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined , you willplatform receive a message shortly from bailey,ur staff, morgan in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website bipartisanpolicy daughter, and a eventsll be on the bpc page under the health section. Later this morning, you will have an opportunity to submit your questions to our Task Force Members vie the q and a function at the bottom of your screen. To the purpose of this event, personally coming from a rural area of indiana with our family farm still operationa
[ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Members of the General Assembly, its my honor to present dill bill bill lee, governor of the state of tennessee. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Lieutenant governor mcnacnally, speaker pro tiem dunn. Members of the 111th General Assembly, constitutional officers, justices, fellow tennesseeans. Its an honor to be before you once again tonight. Truly an honor. Before i begin, speaker sexton, let me offer a special congratulations to you on your election as our new speaker. [ applause ] i look forward to working with you not only in this session but if the years ahead as we strive to make tennessee a leader in this country. Last year i stood before you on this podiumnewly inaugurated add the 50 governor of tennessee, and i had no idea what i was getting myself into. Its been a rewarding year. Far more rewarding than i could have ever imagined. To serve tennesseeans, to help m
Coronas outbreak and the federal government coronavirus outbreak in the federal governments preparedness. And the federal governments preparedness. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you, secretary azar, for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated, but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. I think you will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget. My first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully, that will be the case again this time. But you propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the Health Care Workforces and preparedness progr
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you, secretary azar, for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated, but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. I think you will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget. My first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully, that will be the case again this time. But you propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the Health Care Workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all that we have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Home energy, rural programs we wou
Health care costs. And much like that partisan lawsuit, President Trumps partisan budget exposes the truth behind that spin. Despite the promise to the contrary, this budget would slash 500 billion from medicare and medicaid. In fact, on seemingly every page of this, it takes huge steps backward on our nations most urgent challenges, proposing a small step forward with hiv pans but takesnsmissions, an enormously backwards with medicaid, which covers more than 2 5 of patients with hiv care, not to mention slashing investments in combating hiv overseas. These medicaid cuts would take us in the wrong direction when it comes to addressing mental and Behavioral Health challenges, like the ongoing Drug Overdose crisis or the increasing suicide rate by making it harder for people to get the care they need. In some states that have expanded medicaid, the Program Covers four out of five people receiving treatment for opioid addictions. To make matters worse for Behavioral Health, the budget eli