Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Affordable care act. We wanted to start with the chairman of the Senate Health committee, lamar alexander. He has been holding a series of hearings. Here is the senator talking about the goal. [video clip] our goal is to come up with in a census consensus early next week. Hopefully we can have senator mcconnell an Agreement Congress can pass by the end of the month that will limit premium increases next year and begin to lower premiums after that and prevent insurers from leaving the market. That is our schedule. What happens if we dont succeed . Last year, or percent of american counties had one Insurance Company on the exchange. This year 36 have one insurer. Of counties half will have one or zero counties on the exchange. We have heard from state Insurance Commissioners that this monopoly in so many. Ounties drives up premiums without costsharing reductions, the Congressional Budget Office, the joint committee on taxation, and as our witnesses have said, premiums will increase 20 in
Naoam leavy. Want to do an update on the Affordable Care act. We wanted to start with the chairman of the Senate Health committee, lamar alexander. He has been holding a series of hearings. Here is the senator talking about the goal. [video clip] our goal is to come up with in a census consensus early next week. Hopefully we can have senator mcconnell an Agreement Congress can pass by the end of the month that will limit premium increases next year and begin to lower premiums after that and prevent insurers from leaving the market. That is our schedule. What happens if we dont succeed . Last year, or percent of american counties had one Insurance Company on the exchange. This year 36 have one insurer. Of counties half will have one or zero counties on the exchange. We have heard from state Insurance Commissioners that this monopoly in so many. Ounties drives up premiums without costsharing reductions, the Congressional Budget Office, the joint committee on taxation, and as our witnesse
All legal residents residing in france. It is not, i repeat, it is not an example of socialized medicine like cuba. It is also not a National Health service as in the United States united kingdom. It is also not an instance of a government run Health System like our excellent Veterans Health administration. French National Health insurance in contrast is an example of public, social security, and private Health Care Financing combined with a diverse publicprivate mix in the provision of Health Care Services. The French Health care system reflects three political values embraced by americans. Liberalism in the sense of giving patients free choice of any doctor or any hospital they care to go to, with no networks, no restrictions. Second, pluralism. Everybody has a diverse choice. They can go to feeforservice, solo practitioners. They can go to group practices. They can go to Outpatient Health centers. The computer emergency risk, public or private hospital, consultations with specialist
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single