Burgess of texas talks about efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Hosted by the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Okay. Okay. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. Im joe antos, the wilson had h. Taylor scholar for Health Care Retirement policy at the American Enterprise institute. On behalf of aei, the Brookings Institution and the Pacific Business group on health, i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching cspan to todays conference. Were going to discuss High Quality Health Care that is available for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is a critical topic for government poll he icymaker spo. The recent election highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what is the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes are coming. The expansion of Health Insurance coverage under the aca has come at a steep price and the Incoming Adm
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished i dont want to call it the oversight investigation room. Which is sometimes used by energy and commerce. What a beautiful room. And it will be more conducive to hearings. This is the first of the 115th congress. Welcome here. And welcome to our Witnesses Today. This is our and welcome back to my friend and colleague, Ranking Member from colorado. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the problem. The subcommittee convenes this hearing to examine a critical component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. As the Worlds Largest health program, medicaid provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans, and accounts for more than 15 of Health Care Spending in the United States. In 2015 alone, federal taxpayers spent over 350 billion on medicaid. The costs continue to rise each other. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise significantly
In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
President. Let gccc countries have the operation. And this operation became legitimate. And in principle, we supported this operation. And we announced that we can, if they need, we can support, we can give them a Logistic Support and intelligence. So far, we havent received any demand from the coalition. But at the end, turkeys political solution and immediate ceasefire. And humanitarian aid, we are sensitive in that. And broadbased political dialogue. Meaningful dialogue. And possibly National Unity administration or government in yemen. That is what we need. And that is turkeys position. And i was with him in tehran, and he was straight with our iranian counterpart that what iran is doing, their sectarian policy ambitious in the region is not helpful. And not helping their interests either. We were very clear with iran, but we can aaron should also be involved in the process. In this process that i mentioned in yemen. They should also use their influence that they shall withdrawal a
Hospital beds. Hospital beds. Sick with coronavirus. It is a Record Number of hospitalizations since this pandemic began. That record coming on a day 132,000 americans testing positive for the virus. The seventh straight day of cases above 100,000. In a moment well take you to a city that is being called the new epicenter of the outbreak. All of this coming against the backdrop of a president ial transition, despite the best efforts of President Trump, yet to accept the results. It is more than the president s baseless legal fight which so far has featured all caps, tweets and lawsuits without any evidence. This is how our nations top diplomat responded to a question about peaceful transition yesterday. There will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. All right. Were ready. Is he serious, thats disgraceful. It thats a joke, it aint funny. Meanwhile, president elect biden continues to project a sense of calm saying his transition is moving forward on schedule, but he