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Potential improvements to the healthcarere law. This is two hours. Thank you for joining us today. We are holding a this hearing virtually. Before we turn to todays topic they help you navigate the virtual narrative and first consistent with regulations, the committee would keep microphones muted. Members are responsible when they seek recognition or when recognized. Second members must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave camera on rather than loggingat out. Third, we will dispense with our practice of observing and instead go in order of seniority alternating between majority and minority beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee first. Finally, without objection, the representative is authorized to serve as the chair in the event that i have some technical difficulties or whatever. Ive thin thank you all for your continued patience as we navigate this technology in order to continue serving our country together in ....
Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the ....
The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam VeteransMemorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only f ....
Today the subcommittee holds a hearing entitled combatting the opoid crisis, battles in the states. Make no mistake, the term combatting and battles are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of a tremendous fight against death affecting every corner of our nation. There were more than 52,000 deaths in overdose. A 20 increase in the prior year. It was almost seven time it is rate of death from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. We learned we have lost roughly 60,0 0 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year than all the names on the vietnam veteran memorial wall. That is likely underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of next year. For every fatale overdose there is 20 nonfatale overdoses and for 2016 that could be near one million. More than 130,000 lives have been lost between 1999 and 2015. Thats about 50,000 oh 500,000 will be lost over the next decade. The roots began in 1980 when ....
Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdose and that is more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because ....