Care disparities, Vaccine Distribution and Prescription Drug prices. My next guest, angie greg it just passed the house this month. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us. Great to see you. This is been a burning issue for me. We may come up with a vaccine or therapies, we may see companies solve the riddle but there are hundreds of millions of people in this country and we have a lot of vulnerable communities. I dont know if we have. Through that dimension of it. You are trying to. Tell us how we are going to deal with vulnerable communities and the people that may not help the health care that i discussed with the second may not have the health care that i discussed with the secretary. As we search for a vaccine, how were we going to equitably distribute the vaccine . We know this virus has affect and in many a mike counties, the brown and black affected sixare times more. I am glad to follow the secretary. About howe thoughts we view this from the capital but it really does not matter how we view this at the capital because at the end of the day, if we do not start working together to stop playing politics with our health care in this country, we are not going to make any progress at all. Any of the issues the secretary identified were wrapped up in hr 1425 which passed the house last week. An increase in tax credits. Expanding the maternal care in medicaid to one year instead of 60 days. Host let me ask you a question. This is just a completely winged question. Constituents many are involved in the community. Many are of different backgrounds. As ive been discussing with the audience, much of the Health Care System is a stacked deck for the Caucasian Community and there is a lack of trust out there in some communities. You are trying to think about it. Part of it is getting people covered. Part of it is getting trust. What does your experience tell you about creating bridges of trust with these communities . That is such a great question. I held a town hall on zoom just like Everything Else the last couple of days on disparities in our Health Care System. I asked our counties throughout minnesota, what are we doing to help bridge the trust gap . It is as simple as making sure that we have folks that can speak various languages and communicate effectively. In many cases, it is a matter of helping people understand where o to get health care. When i think about my congressional district, it is one of the highest rates of nonelderly with a preexisting condition. To hear the secretary talk about the work of the Affordable Care act 10 years ago, what people care about is their outofpocket cost, the cost of Prescription Drugs. Congress, i had responsibility for health care at a major u. S. Fortune 500 company. We were self insurers. We also had a real challenge to control the cost of our biologic drugs. And we need to make sure that we have healthy competition with bio similars. That is something i have been working on how do we think about that. A have been having conversation in this country for a decade about the cost of health insurance. We need to have a conversation about the cost of health care. Host one of the things i want to do real quickly for our audience who may not understand the various dimensions. Talked to biounderstand, i havt them about this, but i know the are a relatively new advancement of multimolecule treatments that in more approved europe. I know scott gottlieb, when he was director of the fda, tried to speed that up. Lets put that out there, when we look at new development, how on cost the spotlight and how we bring down the spotlight on cost. Can you tell us about what the bio similar dimension of this is . Rep. Craig right now, for certain biologics, there is a a part ind there is the law that allows brandname companies to pay off generic providers from essentially bringing healthy competition into the market space, so, for me, this is not about bio category, it is about how do we create healthy competition . Allowinghe reason for a drugmaker to enjoy exclusivity . Med techked for a company for 12 years. I was on the leadership team, so it may seem odd to have a former med tech executive say we have got to take a look at what is driving costs in this country, at what is reducing competition, and, you know, i personally supported the aca, but i also implement at the aca as part of a fortune 500 company, and i saw many of the problems with it, and i tried on an adjusted basis to bring Forward Policy Solutions that are going to allow more people to Access Health insurance but also what are those things that are going to drive down the cost of health care in our nation . Have beenknow, we talking about not only the health of humans but the health of society today. Interviewedtly eduardo petrone of miamidade college, who said, under orders from the Florida Governor of the campus to reopen, open classes that miamidade college, those through k12 as well. You see the president say, if you do not open, we may not find you. Fred upton from michigan has said you know, we have got to have pe, we have got to give support to schools, and fred upton, you know, is saying he is somewhat opposed to it. Where are you right now in this question of schools reopening and how we should be doing it and whether we should be providing support for those schools that are going to be taking our children back . Well, you cant have a conversation about education without starting with the conversation about what should the federal strategy be around the Health Aspects of covid19, so i certainly, from the start, have believed that we should have a more robust federal strategy as it relates to testing him a as it relates to Contact Tracing. I am one of the founding members of the supply chain caucus in the u. S. Congress, which i never thought would be a sexy topic ever in a million years. [laughs] host it is big now. Supply chain is a hot topic. Rep. Craig it is a hot topic. And i am from a swing district to support the administration when i think they are on the right track him a publicly, and i believe it is my responsibility to say out loud that we need a federal strategy, to make sure we have the component for the capacity of testing. We have got to get our testing and our Contact Tracing capabilities ramped up in order to and go back. We needed to do that to effectively reopen the economy. We have shown in many states we have not achieved an effective reopening of the economy, but we have to go back to the source of the issue. I think you will see the same thing when it relates to education in this country. Unless we have strong testing, ppe, robust ppe supply, which i believe would require more use act, we willtion not have Contact Tracing capability in our schools, and at the end of the day, this is a Health Care Issue. We cannot have the conversation about the economy or education without addressing the Health Care Issue first. Host representative angie craig, you hit it out of the park with a lot of comments, and i hope we can do it again soon. Rep. Craig thank you so much for having me. Host thank you. Monday, new mexico governor Michelle Lujan grisham talks about her states response to , mondaynavirus pandemic at 1 00 p. M. On cspan2, cspan. Org, and listen free on the cspan radio app. The Supreme Court made a ruling on several cases in its most recent term. One case involved the house of representatives and whether or not the authority to subpoena thirdparty companies for president trumps financial records. This oral argument from may is just over one hour and a half