On facebook, youtube, twitter and from axios. Com. With theollow along axios on twitter. We will unpack how the pandemic has changed the trajectory of healthcare and what is expected over the next four years. Is dr. Robertt blendon, professor of Health Policy at the school of Public Health. He is joining us from boca raton. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Theets Start Talking about Number One Health topic right now, the coronavirus. Lets talk about equities and disparities. Can you outline what are the best things we can do from a policy perspective to help reduce the pain of the pandemic and to reduce the inequities associated over the next few months . Dr. Blendon first i want to be very cautious. A number of things are done under an emergency basis over the next six months. A lot of like and hispanic americans could die. There are a lot of things we can do about race inequity that are really important. I am really worried about the next six months. Americansent black and latino am
Freedoms that are seen as key to hong kong status as a Global Financial center. M k richardson welcome to the show we start in the United States where thousands of people are gathering in tulsa oklahoma for president Donald Trumps 1st Campaign Rally in more than 3 months the city was the site of a massacre that was one of the countrys deadliest white attacks on black communities almost a century ago the date of the trump rally was moved back a day after an uproar that it was originally scheduled for june 13th which marks the end of slavery in the United States the event is taking place despite warnings from Health Officials about spreading the corona virus. And im joined now by correspondent Stephanie Simons who is in tolson outside the arena where the rally is scheduled jeff on whats going on where you are now. Well were not quite at the arena yet and let me show you whats going on here so this is the checkpoint for the press and behind those white tents is actually where the grounds
Giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company thats comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos plan to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a
Former amazon Vice President tim brady the Washington Post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company thats comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes tha
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration