[background sounds]. [background. [background sounds]. Thank you for coming and welcome to our Health Equity roundtable with Pete Buttigiege. We are here at nicholtown missionary baptist church. And we are so happy that all of you are here today. Health equity in healthcare is a major issue. Throughout South Carolina but in the africanamerican communities and we have, and esteemed panel. The discussion here today with Pete Buttigiege in regards to Health Equity with the African American community if he and when he becomes the president of the united states. Will go around our panel and ask everyone to take 30 seconds to a minute to introduce themselves, who they are and why theyre here. We would like to start with this young lady on the end and we will work our way around. My name is alicia, im healthcare from professional. Im in healthcare executive, i have lived in various areas of the country and have relocated here. Im undergoing a lot of change, and strong interest with my family
Everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to our Health Equity round table with mayor Pete Buttigieg. Wed like to welcome everyone to Nicholtown Baptist church and were so happy that all of you are here today. As we all know, leading up to saturdays primary, that Health Equity and health care is a major issue throughout South Carolina, but predominantly in our africanamerican communities. And we have gathered together an esteemed panel to come here today and discuss this with mayor Pete Buttigieg. It has his plans and vision regarding Health Equity for the africanamerican community, if he and when he becomes president of the united states. So again, were very thankful for you to be here. We are going to go around our panel and have everyone take 30 seconds to a minute to introduce themselves, who they are, what they do and why they are here. So we would like to start with the young lady at the end and we will work our way around. My name is alicia edmund. Im a 15year health care profe
Host she talked about there were 200 thugs in the crowd on january 6. Guest thats not true. The january 6 committee investigated that, that is not true. Host dorothy in baltimore, morning. Caller good morning ladies, and please give me a message from the president of the United States. The secretary mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The secretary i am directed by the president of the United States to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to clause of rule 20 well suspend the rulesâ– s5 on which e yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to under rule 6 of clause 20. The house will have proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition . I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 4403. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar 239, a bill to amend the 2002 to make improvements
Damian we begin with one or more of our more important and popular segments of the year. This is the urgent need for more latino doctors. In the entire country, only 6 of medical doctors are latina or latino. So needless to say there is an urgent need. With me on comunidad del valle today, are dr. Cesar padilla and dr. Manny gonzalez. Gentlemen, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. Dr. Manny gonzalez hi, damian. Dr. Padilla thank you. Damian hi, thank you. And dr. Gonzalez, well start with you. What is it that was your impulse or your impetus . What propelled you to become a medical doctor . Dr. Gonzalez for me it was the need to have more doctors that look like me and like doctors that speak my language. I think its important when physicians speak the language the patients have. They feel a little bit more willing to open up and tell us things that have been going on and oftentimes in my job, primary care, its important to hear whats going on in the social aspects of their l
With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states. Menstruates are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so today well talk about our our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so where we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, what is under discussion, and well talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So, we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Theres one empty estate and that belongs to trish riley, but because of the crazy weather in trish wont be able to get into town and so she will not be with us but fear not, our three other panelists here watch what is happening in the states closely and will be able to give us a full puck picture. First we have Diann Rowland from the Kaiser Family foundation. Diane was also the inaugural chair of macpack,