[inaudible] i might just wait for good afternoon, welcome to the committee of the 118th congress. I am pleased to welcome all of you here for this testimony on the military and civilian personnel programs at the department of defense, and the military services and review of the Administration Defense authorization request for fiscal 2024. All of my brothers served in the military, supporting the military, a military families means a lot to me. I am particularly pleased to be chair in my first hearing as an Armed Services subcommittee chair. I am honored to chair at the subcommittee, and i look forward to continuing its long history of bipartisanship and working as a partner with Ranking Member scott, and with all of our members, on both sides of the aisle, to improve the lives of our Service Members, of retirees, military families, and the civilian workforce. Our annual posture here provides the department the opportunity to discuss their personal priorities for the coming year. This y
Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
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Combating diabetes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] shall be give this hearing a start . For this joint economic hearing i actually have 2 give senator heinrich and the entire team, democrat and republican staff, has been in discussion for quite a while. As we look at the Health Statistics of the nation, particularly diabetes, its cost to society not just in healthcare costs, but in so many of our brothers and sisters that just have misery. Where this partially came from is 2 or 3 years ago we were doing a weird experiment. Whats the real cause of income inequality in america . And yes, we saw education, we saw other things but the one thing we werent prepared to see was health. The numbers of folks, hate to use the economic term, that had real Health Issues, the number of it was diabetes and so we have spent almost two years digging around in the literature trying to understand whats going on in society, particularly the growth of our population that are suffering
Egypt cause the board of egypt and the president says he will not allow palestinians to be moved to the sign. I couldnt see like a guest. The united nations. The us veto is a resolution courting for a humanitarian pause in cost. The a will crime masika and a clear violation of International Law, just some of the words being used to describe israels latest atrocity on the people of casa. Close to 500 palestinians have been killed off the israel carry a 1000 and strike on a hospital in central garza, its a single west attack on besieged enclave and one that has sparked rage across the region. Israel has blamed is not meant jihad, so the attack and accusation that the Palestinian Group denies that attack how and just before the us president arrived in israel in a show of support turbine and said hes received information from the pentagon, backs up israel claims that it was not behind the hospital strike, he also says that israel has agreed to allow aid into gaza as soon as possible policy