Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
Of the department of health and Human Services unaccompanied Children Program. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And maxwell, the office of Inspector General department of health and Human Services, Jonathan Hayes, director of the office of Refugee Resettlement department of health and Human Services and jonathan white, commander Public Health service commissioned. This hearing is part of our oversight responsibility which we take very seriously something even more precious is at stake and that is the mental and physical wellbeing of children. That is why the office of the Inspector General report was so alarming. It confirms our worst fears that intentional policy choices by this administration created what ive called a Mental Health crisis which the office of the Inspector General said health and Human Services and the office of Refugee Resettlement fails to address. It is a crisis of deliberate government sanctioned child abuse. We must stop the problems inflicted
And members of the Departments Office of Inspector General to discuss the recently released report on the Mental Health needs of children and the care of the department of health and Human Services unaccompanied Children Program. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And maxwell, the office of Inspector General department of health and Human Services, Jonathan Hayes, director of the office of Refugee Resettlement department of health and Human Services and jonathan white, commander Public Health service commissioned. This hearing is part of our oversight responsibility which we take very seriously something even more precious is at stake and that is the mental and physical wellbeing of children. That is why the office of the Inspector General report was so alarming. It confirms our worst fears that intentional policy choices by this administration created what ive called a Mental Health crisis which the office of the Inspector General said health and Human Services and th
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before moving in on the shooter. this despite records showing that the local police chief completed active shooter training in december that calls on police to do the exact opposite. meanwhile, president biden fresh from his visit to uvalde has promised action on gun reform. the question this morning, will congress follow through. and will this latest tragedy actually move republicans the president in the last hour seems to think so. i haven t spoken to them, i think they ll have to take a hard look. plus, more heartbreaking stories are emerging from the violence, including one from a teacher, who told her students to hit the floor, just seconds before bullets ripped through her classroom windows. i just kept hearing, boom, boom, boom. it kept going off, it felt like an eternity. and i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. and nbc s ken brock is here with me. nbc s julia ainsley will be here in a moment. sam, you ve been here the last couple