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Mr. Sanders yikes we havent even started yet. Mr. Palomarez thank you very much for being with us, we have been looking forward to this and think you for making time to do this. It is important to us that [indiscernible] secretary clinton at about 60 the question is, mr. Senator are you, as they say what do you do plan to do to stay viable for the nomination . Mr. Sanders let me begin by thanking you for inviting me this is a wonderful turnout. Thank you all. We went into this campaign absolutely it has been wonderful,. If you and i were having a chat threeandahalf months ago and asking if i was running, i would have told you that i really did not know. My wife was not that excited about the idea. She is a very smart woman. We are cutting new into this game. I think its fair to say that secretary clinton has been thinking about this for a lot longer than i have. Let me tell you some of the issues we were struggling with when we were contemplating whether to get into this. It has everyt ....
States have a good offensive policy. I think it was admiral rogers not that long ago within the last few months said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ed a inad infinitum in classified settings for the entire 10 years i was on the intelligence community. We could never get consensus to move to the next place what that cyber offensive is. As a personal note i saw the administration say they will make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. Candidly, im not too excited about whats going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in this room to deal with this problem. Long answer to your question i dont believe they can go extra territorial to what they perceive is a threat at that point. Thank you so much. Thank you if we can give a hand to the speaks. You can see how we can take many hours talking about that. We will roll into the next panel capa ....
Those clinicians who were providing higher quality, better value care a big movement in general to give patients more knowledge and to let them be more active participants in their own health care. Medicare solved the initial problem. It was designed to solve. But there is so much more that we need to do to make sure that the program improves and of course most importantly, is around for our children and grandchildren. That will be a whole other discussion. What changes would you make . First i think we need to establish that something is happening. As producing much better results. Were not sure what that s there is per capita spending and medicare has essentially been flat or going up about the rate of the gdp. Its unprecedented in the history of medicare. Its always been said that actual was wrong. Were spending much less than predicted. And i think well probably wind up talking this morning about whether this is sustainable or not. But something good has been going on. I also have ....
Thank you mr. Chairman. Substance abuse affects tens of millions of americans. According to the hhs, more people die from drug overdoses in 2014 then any on record. Substance abuse has grown across multiple groups including women, privately insured and those [inaudible] Substance Abuse affects the wealthy and the poor and the urban. Its one of the first goals of the congress the Republican Leadership demonstrated its concern to drug test americans prior to then receiving federal funds. Indeed every republican member of the committee voted to allow widespread testing prior to getting their own earned benefits. The statement made clear that the republicans wanted to help identify people with problems to empower them to get the help they need. My amendment with representative sanchez would extend this approach to the beneficiaries of the 157. 6 billion windfall in the su ....
Thank you mr. Chairman. Substance abuse affects tens of millions of americans. According to the hhs, more people die from drug overdoses in 2014 then any on record. Substance abuse has grown across multiple groups including women, privately insured and those [inaudible] Substance Abuse affects the wealthy and the poor and the urban. Its one of the first goals of the congress the Republican Leadership demonstrated its concern to drug test americans prior to then receiving federal funds. Indeed every republican member of the committee voted to allow widespread testing prior to getting their own earned benefits. The statement made clear that the republicans wanted to help identify people with problems to empower them to get the help they need. My amendment with representative sanchez would extend this approach to the beneficiaries of the 157. 6 billion windfall in the su ....