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 a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half 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 spend 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 as we
Bills. 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 a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half 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 spend 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 muc
Minutes away. And that will help. We have a dense fog advisory. Portsmouth all the way to nashua. If youre travelling in that area, be cautious, even down near the Greater Boston area. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. So some of that fog can be freezing some isolated locations in southern New Hampshire. And then im watching this low, tracking off of our coast today. Going to bring rain southeastern mass. Future cast coming up. But its 40s today and at least a slight chance of some of the showers making their way all the way up to near boston. Better chance, though, for the cape and islands. More on that coming up. Heather we are following breaking news for you this morning. We want to take a live look right now as hundreds of people take to the streets of Little Havana in Miami Florida to celebrate the death of fidel castro. His brother, raul castro announcing the leaders passing around 10 00 last night. Divisive and controversial hero. Some saw him as a hero, other saw him as oppressi