The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
In ron wyden on treatment for chronic illnesses it will hear from medicare and medicaid administrator seema verma on controlling medical costs. From the Bipartisan Policy Center, this is about 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. [inaudible] an important moment senator wyden has always been a proud supporter of families and i think we understand why. So good morning, everyone. Im jason grumet, it is a distinct pleasure of the present of the Bipartisan Policy Center to spend the next hour talking about something that is going right in washington, d. C. , authentic collaboration as i think we all know isnt easy. It requires principal, patien, creativity, empathy, and the tolerance for discomfort, if you are truly trying to work with somebody who has similarly strongly held views and at times disagreement. But more than anything it requires leadership. And so really its terrific to be honoring chairman orrin hatch and senator ron wyden, two leaders have worked together to improve the lives
Motion or see if there someone who would be willing to make a second this motion to move the hearing and that it be continued open to the board of supervisors meeting of october 16th, 2018 for further narrow discussions regarding the new air quality mitigation measure up, the air quality impact and further mitigation. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i prepared to second that motion but i just want to before a second that motion, get something on the records. That is council from one of the appellants. They indicated there might be a legal reason that it should be 30 days. Im totally comfortable with the motion that president cohen made but i want to make sure that our attorney is willing to advise us that there are no due process issues with a two week, as opposed to one month continuance yes, two weeks is fine. No legal problem with continuing it for two weeks. Just a clarification on the process. The president announced that the hearing is closed. A moment ago, but the motion t
Thank you from all of us, virginia, for bringing so much love, joy and really good advice to so many of us throughout our lives. May you rest in peace. Supervisor cohen thank you [roll call] madam president . That includes the introduction of new business. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. Madam clerk, i think that brings us to item 44. Public comments. The public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter of the board. Supervisor cohen thank you supervisors, i mentioned earlier i was here at the six hour meeting. I have a leg brace and a back brace and i stayed throughout today. I want to tell you that the years and years of my environmental work are not going to be in vain. I have thousands of articles that i have written. I go before the bay area air Quality Management district and you have some representatives. They dont Pay Attention when you go to the board. The bay area air Quality Management district has employees wh
Lives. May you rest in peace. Supervisor cohen thank you [roll call] madam president . That includes the introduction of new business. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. Madam clerk, i think that brings us to item 44. Public comments. The public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter of the board. Supervisor cohen thank you supervisors, i mentioned earlier i was here at the six hour meeting. I have a leg brace and a back brace and i stayed throughout today. I want to tell you that the years and years of my environmental work are not going to be in vain. I have thousands of articles that i have written. I go before the bay area air Quality Management district and you have some representatives. They dont Pay Attention when you go to the board. The bay area air Quality Management district has employees who want to work very hard and they are told destroy the documents and we have not heard anything from our supervisors and w