Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
Behavior and causes providers to provide Higher Quality care and total cost of care. [inaudible] Health Care Costs are down, but i think Something Else that is going within the Medicare Program that we are seeing, fundamentally different patterns and controlling hospital remissions, why we have this tremendous variation and cost around the country they thank you for the opportunity to speak today. It is great to be here. We return to sheila burke, who is on the faculty at harvard university, a big chunk of her working life was right here in the senate vote as chief of staff to senator bob dole, both majority and minority. And the chief minister and officer in this body. I think it is worth noting with todays discussion that she has a degree in nursing and worked as a nurse in her career. So she has been closely involved in Health Care Issues for very long time. We are very pleased to have you with us. Thank you very much. It would be frightening to put me back in award. [laughter] no f
Fulfill your purposes by using our senators as agents of your grace. Lord, surround them with your favor, as their habes bring honor to you. Deliver them from the traps set by their enemies. Give them hearts filled with confidence in your prevailing providence, sustaining them with your unfailing faithfulness and love. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid mr. President , i just by chance last night was reading a book, and it had a page in there a speech that was given by john mccain, our fellow senator. What senator mccain talked about was some of his experiences in the prison camp in vietnam, where a man by the name of Mike Christian had spent an inordinate amount of time sewi
In 2006 president bush signed the bill on the lawn of the white house with members of congress from both parties there in large numbers. We reaffirm our commitment to build that same type of coalition for the necessary legislative response to the Supreme Courts action. And we reaffirm our commitment o do that today. Hi, im Wade Henderson with the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights. I just want to acknowledge some of the leaders who are here today who joined in this really important and constructive meeting with the president. Theres cheryl, the president director council of the naacp, Legal Defense and educational fund. Barbara who is executive director and president of the Lawyers Committee, the civil rights under law. Which by the way is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year having been founded by president kennedy in response to violence against those who sought to register voters in the past. Tom, who is president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and educatio
The agency notorious for stealing your belongings and patting down granny has been flying under the radar expanding its reach beyond Airport Security. Joining me now, administrator law counsel for the Privacy Information Center and Senior Policy Council at the aclu and former fbi agent. We just kind of learned about this, and i was shocked because i thought what they were doing the cops were supposed to do. On . Tsa is constantly expanding its authority and to state and local Law Enforcement. Tsa has no jurisdiction to control in the way it is done. Gerri i know you agree with it. Heres what the tsa administrator explaining what they are trying to do. The mandate is to provide security, Counterterrorism Operations for highrisk targets. Not just air force and aviation. So what is your problem with what he is saying . They are expensive and ineffective. They harm our Fourth Amendment rights and often and a proxy for other types of bias racial profiling where they will go out, doing this