Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
You have described to a degree, but if you could elaborate can you describe how you will prioritize and oversee the larger range of issues for which you will be responsible. Tell us, what in your history has prepared you to lead the department of health and Human Services. Tom price thank you. As you and members know the mission of the department of health insert health and Human Services is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People. In order to do that, i am committed to that mission. In order to do that you have to put together teams of individuals in east each sector of health and Human Services. My history of where ever i was or the work i did in communities was just to bring forward greatest quality of talent that we could assemble. The second is to understand the scope and the issues. Clearly having the experience both in the clinical arena as well as the legislative arena you can understand the scope of issues. Finally, focusing on results. Often times
He was so poor that when he was arrested, his parents couldnt make 3000 of bail. He spent three years in rikers. A 16yearold kid. Nobody deserves to be in prison for three years without a trial date. The sixth amendment says that you get a trial, it also says you get a speedy trial. I do not what happened to him in prison, i can only imagine. He tried to commit suicide four times. This should not happen america in america. It is this report shortly happening to blacks hispanics. You know what, if we were the party that cared about the entire bill of rights, nobody on the democratic side does anything about this. The party that was once the emancipation could become the party of the entire bill of rights again i think you would see a seachange. [applause] people asked me, whats the worst thing going on in washington . Is a obamacare . What the president has done to immigration, war powers . I say, frankly, it is all of the above, but the category i would lump bit under is that the separ
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