Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Please begin your five second countdown. Chair pappas five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We have a number of members participating remotely today. And before we proceed, i would like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if youre experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participating remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing, unless they experience connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member fully unable to participate on camera. It is committee and subcommittee policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning on your microphone on and off during an inperso
The Security Review Commission hosted this discussion. It is just under one hour. We will get going in a couple of minutes. Period ofly a short time for our first panel anyway. We will expand it a little by starting a few minutes early. Several commissioners are on the way. D morning, everywhere everybody, welcome to the seventh hearing of the u. S. China hearings. 19 court cycle. Thank you for joining us today. Todays hearing will examine chinas role in Global Health and the National Security, economic, and Public Health concerns stemming from american dependence on Chinese Health products. Our witnesses will also discuss the activities of Chinese Health and biotech firms in the u. S. As well as the opportunities and challenges u. S. Health firms encounter while operating in china or trying to sell into the china market. Globals the biggest source of generic drugs, pharmaceutical ingredients and other Health Products, including dietary supplements, biologics, and medical devices. Ther
We will expand it a little by starting a few minutes early. Several commissioners are on the way. D morning, everywhere everybody, welcome to the seventh hearing of the u. S. China hearings. 19 court cycle. Thank you for joining us today. Todays hearing will examine chinas role in Global Health and the National Security, economic, and Public Health concerns stemming from american dependence on Chinese Health products. Our witnesses will also discuss the activities of Chinese Health and biotech firms in the u. S. As well as the opportunities and challenges u. S. Health firms encounter while operating in china or trying to sell into the china market. Globals the biggest source of generic drugs, pharmaceutical ingredients and other Health Products, including dietary supplements, biologics, and medical devices. There are serious deficiencies in health and Safety Standards in chinas medical market. Imports of these Health Products either directly from china or indirectly through companies a
Before the u. S. China review commission. We will get going in a couple of minutes. Period ofly a short time for our first panel anyway. We will expand it a little by starting a few minutes early. Several commissioners are on the way. D morning, everywhere everybody, welcome to the seventh hearing of the u. S. China hearings. 19 court cycle. Thank you for joining us today. Todays hearing will examine chinas role in Global Health and the National Security, economic, and Public Health concerns stemming from american dependence on Chinese Health products. Our witnesses will also discuss the activities of Chinese Health and biotech firms in the u. S. As well as the opportunities and challenges u. S. Health firms encounter while operating in china or trying to sell into the china market. Globals the biggest source of generic drugs, pharmaceutical ingredients and other Health Products, including dietary supplements, biologics, and medical devices. There are serious deficiencies in health and
The committee on Health Care Benefits will come to order without objection, the chair is authorized. My understanding that democrats caucus is not designated who all the members are. Well. Wrence as we dont know who is all on this committee. We need to do a unanimous consent that all members on the committee be allowed to participate without objection. So ordered. Welcome to the new congress. Mr. Krista morphy, we appreciate you being here and being the making member. We have mr. Mitchell and a number of other new members to the Oversight Committee will be joining us from the democrat side. I want to welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get to our witnesses. We appreciate our witnesses in your today, talking about an important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised that the Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting