Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug prices. Currently, there are high discounts in the price of prescription medicines, including rebates to Medicare Part d plans last year alone. Yet often, middlemen stop those discounts from going to the patients, which is what were interested in. No
So today, i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of Prescription Drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug pri
Effective in preventing the disease. Pres. Trump thank you very much. This is a very big announcement, the biggest ever concerning drugs and drug pricing. So today i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of centers for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american s
She also addressed allegations against democratic president ial candidate joe biden. Good morning. I am pleased to be joined by mr. Clyburn, the democratic whip, the chair on the committee on the coronavirus. Today, we are here to talk about how we can reach out to everyone as we reach out with broadband. With a broadband. Mr. Clyburn will be addressing that, hes been a champion. Everything is about time. We are in a time of great sadness, 60,000 people have died, more than 60,000 from the coronavirus. 30 million americans have applied for Unemployment Insurance. The lives and livelihoods of the American People are at stake. And we have to make some decisions about the time when we would go forward to opening up our economy. That is the question at hand. I firmly believe there are three steps that we must take in preparation for what comes next. Many of us have talked about testing, testing, testing. Our first bipartisan bill, which we wrote in february, passed on march 4, was about te