And welfare of unaccompanied minors at the u. S. Southern border. Held by the Senate Finance committee, this runs to an half hours. The finance committee will come to order. Today, we meet discussed to Important Health care nominations. Chiquita brooks has been nominated to serve as a minister for the senators on medicare and medicaid services. Andrea pumps has been nominated serve as deputy secretary of the health and Human Services. Brooks has served at owen beach, at the staff, at the department of health and Human Services and she has worked in the private sector. She helped craft policies bringing down costs for older people. She helped and developed key portions of the Affordable Care act. She helped implement the law. She worked hard to make sure that middleclass families shopping for private Health Options get a fair shake thanks to strong Consumer Protections. The Trump Administration later undermined a lot of those protections. That has created a host of new challenges the co
At the staff, at the department of health and Human Services and she has worked in the private sector. She helped craft policies bringing down costs for older people. She helped and developed key portions of the Affordable Care act. She helped implement the law. She worked hard to make sure that middleclass families shopping for private Health Options get a fair shake thanks to strong Consumer Protections. The Trump Administration later undermined a lot of those protections. That has created a host of new challenges the committee and for the Biden Administration. Ms. Brooks for sure is very wellversed in medicaid policy which, is a hugely important part of this committees responsibilities. She has worked closely with federal government, and states to expand coverage. Continuing on the theme of impeccable qualifications and experience, ms. Palm is a Proven Health care Agency Leader who knows what it takes to run hhs in a smooth way. She previously served as the department chief of staff
Dr. Browner or staff is nodding over there. Is that right, according to that, the schedule that we have . Okay. Thank you. All right. Thats for your facts. Commissioner green . Yeah. Im a little confused, and i just want to make sure i understand this fully. So it says here that the spmf plans to contract with payers, including managed and straight medical with the exact same contracts that cpmc currently holds. Does the Sutter Pacific medical Foundation Actually accept the reimbursement rates of state medical and will they accept the straight reimbursement rates that cpmc currently accepts for the same services . I just want to make sure i understand same contract really means the foundation for these services will actually accept the reimbursements are currently straight medical reimbursements. Thanks, dr. Green. Youre exactly correct. What was exactly right . Next question. Sutter will accept the same excuse me, dr. Browner, could you speak a little louder. Sutter will accept the sa
Palmer, and kim tavaglioni. Please let me know if ive missed any, but this is for item nine. Hi again. The Nursing Association agrees that this is detrimental. We agree with the departments finding, and we hope that youll move to make that official. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Yeah. If you look at the research that mrs. Patil did herself, you can see that all of the rcfe memory care units are full in the city. And this is, again, cpmc enhancing its own revenue at the expense of the people of San Francisco. Weve got an epidemic of alzheimers going on, breaking waves of baby boomers going into it, and youve got them discontinuing services, not planning for services on its very well endowed campuses, and a deficit of ten beds for the ones that are there now. So its unquestionable that its detrimental, and i urge you to vote that way. Thank you. Thank you. And our last speaker, please. Kim tavaglioni. We wholeheartedly agree with the departments recommendation. The treatment of the
Need to be ready for anything. Comcast supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. , cup, the joint Economic Committees testimony on Economic Impact of diabetes. During the hearing, medical experts and policy advocates addressed the rise in diabetes diagnosis, the need for increased access to healthcare and the link between diabetes and obesity. Witnesses also outlined the federal governments role in 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