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innovation in health care 2022 conference. i am caitlin owens, health reporter for axios, joining you from i home in washington dc. from my home in washington dc. if you want to follow on twitter, do so @axios, and #axiosevents. we will explore the pandemic and health care in 2020 to two and beyond. our first guest is dr. pete schultz, joining us from san diego. welcome, dr. schulz. dr. schultz: happy to be here. caitlin: thank you so much for joining us today to talk about important takeaways from the pandemic. a natural place to start would be the mrna, which has been transformational. what do you see going forward, once we are through with covid, what are promising uses for mrna in research and development? dr. schultz: the vaccine area is probably where it is going to continue to have its largest impact. just because of the speed with which you can make vaccines, and because of the multiple constructs. but folks are starting to look at mrna therapeutics for heart ....
subsidies. let s start on the subsidies and and how hat they are this is going to impact the affordable care act. guest: the same and how this is going to impact the affordable care act. subsidies have been hearing about for months now, since trump took office. the subsidies, they help cover things like co-payments, deductibles, out-of-pocket costs for low-income people. the funny thing here with the subsidies, insurers have to give them to enrollees who are below a certain income level. the problem is that republicans had a lawsuit saying congress didn t authorize the payments to be made to insurers. so the question has been is the administration, start with the obama administration, is the administration making these payments illegally since congress never passed a law saying, ok, these can be paid. so then when trump came into office, it was republican versus republican, so trump the court case has continued to be delayed. it seems that yesterday trump timely made ....
announce his decision about the iran nuclear deal. we begin in open phones. let us know your thoughts on any of the public policy issues. (202)ican call-in at 784-8001. democrats (202) 748-8000. independence (202) 748-8002. you can also catch us on social media. good right a morning to you. our lead story this morning involves puerto rico, the iran nuclear deal, and headline. we have front-page stories. on the iran nuclear deal, president trump will announce his policy toward a iran. p.m.t is happening at 1245 the president is acted to address the value voters summit. 10:30s happening around a.m. the president is acted to have his address. the big news out of the lighthouse was the health care front and politico broke the story. the posted the story about subsidies any plan changes. is going to cut off subsidy payments in his most aggressive move yet to undermine the health care law or it law. $7 subsidies are worth billion this year. they are paid out in monthly inst ....
budgets are not particularly sexy and exciting discussions, and a lot of people wonder about 1 trillion here and 100 billion there, what what does it all mean we believe this event and go live now to a conversation about what s next for health care policy after several republicans against repeal and replace the law. this is hosted by axios. thank you all for coming out so early. thanks all of you for joining us online and thank c-span for welcoming their audience here to axios. we want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring this event. thank all of you for coming for those of you who are following online please use hashtag axios 360 and will get the conversation going online. axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. we bring information you can trust, information that will help you make better decisions using smart brevity sake get smarter faster. we see that also with these events where we are honored to have three senators at the cen ....
for sessions: he did ask our written opinion and we submitted that to him, it did represent any change in either one of our opinion as rosenstein uty indicated, i believe. asked to provide it and we did. enator: did the president ever mention to you his concern about russia the cloud on the investigation? a.g. sessions: that calls for a had with the i ve resident and i believe remains confidential. senator: but you don t deny there was a communication? do not confirm or deny existence of any ommunication between the president that i consider to be confidential. did you first speak with the president about what director comey, date? a.g. sessions: i think that is lso covered by my opening statement, i believe the president had the right and i a duty to meet with him on proper occasions and provide advice, legal or otherwise as i m called upon to do. have done that and i believe he has a right to protect that until ntiality appropriate circumstances exist to wavemight not ....