he is somebody who is no stranger to the role of hhs and the federal government. we are looking forward to working with him, and as somebody who has served on the administration's opioid task force, i am looking to see some of the recommendations that we made and pursue on a grand level are, and we appreciate it. >> thank you, governor baker and governor brown. i'd like to the express my gratitude to all of you and to the all of the governors who have gather ed here today for your leadership on this vital issue. today's turnout reflects the level of commitment to this crisis that we have seen from the governors across the country, and from both parties. your involvement and input are deeply valued at the federal level. we applaud your work on the many different fronts where you have fought this crisis and from establishing and improving prescription drug monitoring programs, and expanding treatment options to using community resources like fire and police stations to connect people to treatment. state governments and local communities have taken the lead. i'm grat

it is critical to work with our counterparts at fda and hhs. i have the utmost respect for them and i look forward to working with them in the future. the only way we can tackle this problem is together. i came from a task force in new york city compromised of new york police. the only reason we were successful is we worked together. paranoia miss you any kind of scientific data, anything fda or hhs can bring to the table i will be more than happy to work with. >> the concern is to make sure you all make reasonable technical accommodations for research which is critical, and that fda should continue to have some role in the scheduling process. i appreciate your comments. what we hope is you all, the dea would, would help provide some technical comments to, in essence a bill, which is hr-2851 which i scribbled -- i don't like to use acronyms. i tried to describele down. stop imimportanttation and trafficking -- yes, you got it. >> if you can make toe suggestions and i think this bill will get a fair hearing and we would like to have entrepreneur

work across hhs' all three areas we will talk about today, prevention, treatment, and recovery. that's why the president directed hhs to consider it a public health emergency and why we declared it an emergency october, 2017. this emergency declaration brought a new level of focus and coronation and corporation to our work across the federal government in its entirety. i want to give you some examples of what we have a compost since then. first, we know it's essential to prevent people from getting people addicted in the first place. we have seen promising news on appropriate opioid prescribing. it is done noticeably from 2010 to 2015. but it's still three times what it was in 1999. just one example of our work on this front. in december, heart of a broader reform administrative, we held and opioid coat a fun. i had to learn that word. coat-a-thon. what they did as the programmers, they spent the day coming up with new tools for apps that used existing data to monitor existing opioid prescribing and provide providers assess their own levels to see if they were out of the norm an

from 100 in any practice to the hhs -- >> yes, that has. both on an ongoing basis for people who are qualified but also emergent circumstances. >> good to hear. >> if i could add something to that. i think the caps have been increased, but if you look at the physicians or health care providers who have been waveriv ed, not many are prescribing up to capacity. we also have to overcome stigma of treatment. >> i agree. and in fact for long acting buprenorphine, has insurance companies and cms paying for this? >> this project just got approved and it will be on the market -- >> by fda? that is different. >> that's right. so it is not right now in the market. it will be in the market starting in march. >> so i'm asking did cms give a coverage decision on it? >> not yet. >> because what we're finding in a lot of areas in health care right now as we get fda approved products, and then we get delayed payment decisions from cms which is preventing access to patients. so that is a big problem if that is the case, we need to -- i'd appreciate knowing

they get funneled into health and human services, specifically to an office inside hhs that's chargedputting those kids in shelters, shelters that have social workers, people who can help the kids get medical care and help these kids who are here without their parents find a sponsor, an adult sponsor who could help them stay in this country, potentially, as a refugee. there is a specific office in hhs that does this work with those kids, now headed by what randomly scott loyd, the anti-abortion activist who had never resettled refugees in his life. where his resume really pops is in anti-abortion activism. he has written extensively on the subject. if you want to know where he falls on the number line of activism on that issue, you should see his essay how birth control is just as bad as abortion. actually how birth control is abortion. he said you can't even call yourself anti-abortion if you think contraception is okay. so, scott lloyd, this very conservative, anti-abortion activist takes over as the head of the office of refugee resettlement. and then headlines like this follow. tr

respective departments and agencies have been doing to tackle the opioid crisis since the president's hhs secretary declared a public health emergency last october. since the president went first sharing his family story about his brother. here at the white house we're happy to hear that congress is coming up with about $6 billion in special funding to combat, help combat this crisis. far and above any number any administration has had. this president is focused on prevention, education, treatment, recovery, law enforcement and interdiction. you will hear from the attorney general, secretaries of hud, homeland security and the the vs they will hold forth and telling what their departments need to be doing to stop the flow of drugs, the supply into here and stop americans who are getting hooked. those who are already addicted. we're going to have addiction and recovery treatment experts in the audience as well, affected families. east room, 1:00 to 3:00. steve: another slow news day at white house. busy, busy. kellyanne, thank you very much.

psalm 28 years ago, hhs secretary louis sullivan addressed this very conference. he said the grocery store has become a tower of babel, consumers need to be languished scientist in mind readers to understand the many labels they see. well, eight months after that speech congress passed the nutrition labeling and education act. so, dr. gottlieb, we are looking forward to hearing something as equally memorable this morning. dr. gottlieb. [applause] >> thanks a lot, and thanks for the opportunity to be here today and the nice introduction. i'm grateful for the chance to get to talk to you all. wanted to talk about what was going to be doing with respect to nutrition trying to keep nutrition as as a tool and tryo reduce the morbidity and mortality associate with chronic disease going forward and really try to lay out why think is going to be forward-looking agenda. a lot of work to date has been spent rightfully so trying to put a lot of the provisions in the laws we inherited. i think we'll have a profound public health value but looking beyond that i wanted to talk

one of the bills before us today attempts to streamline the registration process and we heard from hhs that it could still constitute a burden to have a negative impact on drug development and to share with the discussions with health and human services regarding the registration process for researchers and how that process could be streamlined. >> definitely research is big for us all so we work closely with hhs regarding applications for research with 600 schedule one researchers ready to go. we believe the new regulation could help streamline the process. absolutely. >> congress always does and provide funding for the agencie agencies. but i want to ensure that against the misuse and diversion not unintentionally with the drug developers to discover new and promising therapies. would you work with us on legislation that we do not just incentivize research wreck. >> i would love to work with you. >> i yield back. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thanks for being here today. in your testimony and in other people's comments we have heard a lot of statistics i want to

it's based upon the structure and absence of additional scientific information provided by the hhs and the national drug abuse. we need to confront the crisis. determining a scheduling can be misleading. they've been working on these as very similar. one is an antidote to the effects of the other. the compound based upon the similarity may inadvertently have an anecdote to the compound and in addition to the concerns regarding what we do have suggestions that will make conducting research with synthetic opioids to controlled substance. my suggestions can be found in my written statement and they would bi wouldbe happy to discu. i've tried to identify a few concerns and as a researcher i welcome any questions you may have. thank you. >> you are recognized for five minutes please. >> i am a physician who has been practicing hospice and medicine for over 30 years and have cared for a lot of folks, thousands over the pure coke of time. i'm here in support of the house bill 5041 and appreciate the representative as well as representatives dingell and hudson for crafting and advancing this b

how can the fda work more closely with hhs, where there's hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on health, not getting food integrated into the health care system, whether it's the electronic health record, medical education, fruit and vegetable prescription, all things that a food as medicine platform could implement to help the fda's mission. dr. gottlieb: it's a fair question. sometimes -- this goes back to my thinking about my prior role at the fda. sometimes fda's role in promoting nutrition isn't that widely appreciated outside of people in this room. that sort of coupled with the fact that sometimes a nutritionist is underappreciated as a tool in trying to drive public health achievements. it's incumbent on me and the leadership of fda to bring about a narrative where both fda's role in trying to use nutrition as a tool to drive positive change as well as reinforcing that message is very important. thingswhy talking about like i did today become very important. i know most of you don't underestimate, because you work in policy, but don't oferestimate the importance having

obama didn't move to fair aides that were incompetent or just blowing it time after time like former hhstary kathleen sabellius. she wasn't fired. and susan rice stated falsehood about benghazi and she was given a promotion and the list goes on and on. and isn't this just smart organization? it's all coming together now. looking to analyze this now is richard goodstein, former hillary clinton aide and byron york from the washington examiner. great to see both of you. richard, i have to say i'm a little bit surprised that there's all this caterwalling about tillerson. he called the president a moron. he would never answer the question about whether he didn't or didn't. you know the president didn't like that. they didn't share the same vision on a lot of issues. what is the big deal? >> i think what the press is reacting to is the gutless way in which the president fired him. even his biggest defenders have to say to put out to a former ceo of exxon in a tweet -- >> now you like exxon. >> he's a formidable guy. he ran a global operation. in a tweet to communicate as he did frankly with re

work across hhs's all three areas, prevention, treatment, and recovery. the president has directed hhs to the public health emergency last fall and we declared an thisency in october 2017 brought a new level of focus and cooperation to our work across the federal government in its entirety. i want to give examples of what has happened and what we have accomplished. we know it is essential to prevent people from getting addicted to opioids in the first place. we have seen news on appropriate opioid prescribing. noticeably is down from 2010 to 2015, but it is three times what it was in 1999. one example of our work on this, december is part of a broader form initiative. ivanka -- opioid code odathon. the programmers spent the day coming up with new tools for prevention like apps that used to help providers set their own prescribing level to see if they are out of the norm and needed to focus on their own habits. we know treatment including evidence-based methods, like medication assistant treatment is essential. after the public health emergency declaration

. >> can feel free to come by the office we do have some experts at hhs who want to work on this issue i don't dispute this but from a scientific point of view to put people in the best possible position to optimize that harm reduction potential and properties of e-cigarette while never putting children in the potential where it could turn into harmful thing because even if it doesn't lead to that there are some substances that are harmful to your health. i still don't want my kid to take to take it up even if it isn't a gateway. also thank you for your comments about partnership. what i am in front of the law enforcement community i talked about i hope you know your state all officer in the state association that is critically important and if you don't i would challenge you to get to know them but then when i talk to them i say the same thing in reverse if you reach out and say to your attorney general and ask them how can we help you with your mission i was called to the carpet a few weeks ago because folks asked about the need for law enforcement discussion out of the discussion an

speaker pelosi: i met with the and we canf hhs fitly lost track of time. honor.eautiful, lying in weekend, thee secretary told me that he did not see the amendment as preventing search. but it does. engage in research without overturning the dickey amendment. to study the impact. some people might call that research that i think mr. cole said something to the effect that it won't be coming up. the american people know that it -- and the president seemed receptive to it in the conversations yesterday that the dickey amendment, for whatever it does, should be repealed. congressman dickey is no longer with us. when he was, he wrote a letter saying it was not his intention. >> are democrats pushing to eliminated in the on the bill? mniaker pelosi: -- in the o bill? speaker pelosi: we're hoping to have a comprehensive gun violence package. this is probably the easiest thing they could do. noise fascinated me in the 90's that we would try to have measurements for children. bicycle accidents, domestic violence. the reason we couldn't move forward is because of th

i said in my opening statement arcos data and what we have learned combined with the state pmp and hhs data gives you a much better outlier problem and in some of the cases that we look at in the situation we look at arcos data would not have found those particular issues and if it's a smaller level or a single place what we need is these data sets that are working in conjunction with each other. >> is that constantly monitored and updated and revised? >> we are constantly working with the standard now in a proactive way and we joined with two state coalitions, state attorney general's to work with data sharing in the space especially with the pmp data as well as our counterparts at hhs. >> thank you, mr. patterson for the chair now recognize as the ranking member from colorado for five minutes. >> thank you. i agree that this to patterson, we do need to look for how we can improve things but i don't think we can do it without examining the past. this arcos system is the perfect example. i want to spend a few minutes following up with the chairman was asking you because you said my und

that counselor to the president kellyanne conway was on multiple flights with tom price, remember, hhscretary tom price who came under fire and was eventually fired for all of those private flights on the taxpayer's dime. well, it turns out that kellyanne conway was along for the ride on some of the flights with tom price. according to the letter, four trips, 11 flights, costing tens of thousands of dollars to taxpayers. cummings essentially is saying he's been asking the white house for documentation on her involvement, participation on these private jets as well as information on whether she has faced any repercussions for flying on these private flights as well as has she decided to pay or reimburse taxpayers back for any of this. he says he's not received that information. so the reason why he's putting out this information today, publicly, is because he wants the chairman of house oversight to subpoena this information from the white house, which they say they haven't been receiving. >> so this was arranged by price's office, these flights, right? the idea is that kellyanne conway

i think your secretary of hhs has said we should be a little research gun violence.t is a keep these having facts and scientific data is a key piece in helping us address this national public health issue. and so i would hope that we as lawmakers can have opinions about policies, but we should all have good sets of facts. we just have fix, to strike one sentence in the existing law to enable us to conduct the research that is needed. amy: kris brown, can you explain what the cdc reference is? >> yes. over a decade ago, a member of congress included in a funding bill a rider, language that said the cdc could not spend funds studying gun violence prevention. over the course of many years, has been interpreted to preclude the cdc from actually spending dedicated funds associated with gun violence research. so the bill that representative murphy, who was elected and represents the area where the , is tohooting occurred provide funding and authorize funding for cdc research. we absolutely agree that it is critical. we have a scourge, an epidemic of gun violence in his cou

cuses onbe technology officials hav meioned robotic hh spd rl anergy sectors. visitor trying to protect american companies intellectual property right. the administration is also planning to restrict chinese investment in strategic sectors. the soon aluminum actions we've taken deal more or less with the present. this action on electoral property rights deals with the futur. that's why these actions are so important and so important in unison with each other. we will end up negotiating these tng rather than fighting over them in my. as wilbur ross indicated that there is likely to be a lot of negotiation coming ahead. industries are likely target or the lobbying and finalist will be doing could take action of its own and target us agricultural exports were american planes and cars. around forty five trade associations warned earlier this week that the tough measures against china could result in higher prices for american consumers. as well as potential job losses. now as he wrapped up pressure on china us president offer concessions on the country's closest al

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>> i met with secretary of hhs i guess a few days i completely lost track of time in term was all of that is going on in beautiful billy lying in honor and so beautiful. earlier in the week i met with the secretary and he told me that he did not see the dickey amendment as preventing research. and, in fact, it really doesn't but it does. but you can entbaij in research without overturning the dickey amendment it is about studying the impact. well some people might call that research but others might not. i think mr. cole has said something to the fact that it won't be coming up. but i think themen american people know and the president seemed receptive to it in the conversations of yesterday. ... we'll take i live to the national press club, an all-day conference

a conference that included vaccine companies from around the world, the world health organization, hhs, some other people, and the ceo of a major vaccine company predicted that, given today's circumstances and capabilities, that if a new pandemic virus appeared, that six months after the isolated it they would only have it best 100 million doses worldwide. another problem is that everyone at the conference was unanimous on is that, any country that has that vaccine is going to nationalize it and not allow any experts. -- allow any exports. they are going to use on their own people first. there were other people that were more optimistic about production capacity but it is a real problem, and we need to address the vaccine production infrastructure in the united states, as this year pointed out, just for regular vaccines, much less if we face a pandemic crisis. frankly, i think it is a national security issue. people, again, need to take influenza seriously. last year, during the sars outbreak we never read a word about this because sars dominated the news but in holland, there was anot

it comes after hhs secretary tom price was forced to resign for spending half a million dollars on chartered flights. and treasury secretary mnuchin requested military aircraft for his honeymoon. meanwhile, hud secretary ben carson has now canceled the order for a $31,000 office dining set. but whistleblower helen foster claims she was demoted after warning hud could only spend $5,000 to redecorate the office. >> the response was, we've always done this in the past. we've always found a way to do this in the past. so go find the money. >> reporter: hud says it's cooperating with investigators. also under scrutiny, va secretary david shulkin, for adding a mini vacation with his wife to a european business trip, forced to reimburse the government after an investigation. and first class air travel for the epa chief scott pruitt who claimed it was a security measure to protect him from angry passengers. >> we have been reviewing these actions and making sure that we're being very responsible with taxpayer dollars. >> if you have cabinet secretaries in place who are showing kind of a disregard fo

is only one labor hhs appropriations bill that governs for the year. we are currently on our fifth short-term funding bill of this funding cycle. october, it is lurching from funding bill to or may notl, you may remember we did have a brief shut down a long weekend in january. congress has done has been funding education programs at the prior-year levels, they have not yet created the school choice proposals that are in the president's budget. however, we are only funded now for another couple of weeks. the funding expires on march 23. if congress is unable to come together again on a bipartisan funding solution in their appetite for the short-term funding solutions is diminishing , than we would potentially have another shutdown. that a, it seems likely shutdown has become less likely because of recent bipartisan action in congress that will make more funding available, as forr fy 2018 as well the one that will start in october of this year. we had been living under artificial low sequester cap's for several years and they anded the sequester caps put

usda and hhs are seeking input on priority topics to be covered under these rules. advisory panel will be appointed and chosen soon. they will want recommendations relative to sugar, sodium, dietary fiber and others you can be sure every interest group in the world is going to want to influence these things. but eating habits are changing and more and more health is becoming a bigger factor in what people are eating. i know there was a french philosopher who said you are what you eat and one trend is the growing relationship of diet, nutrition, medicine and health and here are the facts. obesity among all levels of populations is not coming down. among school-age population there was some leveling off of trends but just recently there are studies that show obesity is going up. the fastest-growing part of the federal budget is healthcare. medicare and medicaid costs with interest on the national debt and the defense budget are driving about 90% of the budget of the united states of america. those healthcare diseases are largely chronic diseases. like type two diabete

would no longer sell assault style rifles, nor firearms to anyone under 21, and would no longer sell hh-capacity magazines. businesses say they are acting in the wake of the tragedy in parkland. classes resumed today at the school where 17 peopleer killed. the bbc's nada tawfikre was t and joined us a short time ago. i can only imagine what how emotional today must have been. what was it like? nada: absolutely. ute walkway into campus behind me was absy lined with members of the community, polics offistaff from the school, students from surrounding schools, comfort dogs. they were acting as cheerleaders for the students as they took their journey back into a place filled w much pain and trauma for them. they gave them high-fives and said welcome back. even though the students return for half a day, this was a very k portant part of getting the readjusted and b a sense of normality. they played games in some classes. in other classes they opened up and talked about the students no longer there with them in the classrm. when i spoke to some of the students, i asked how the first day was. one of th

it's really only one labor hhs appropriationsyear. wee are now on the fifth short term funding bill of this funding cycle. starting back in october, we essentially kick the can lurching from funding bill to funding bill. you may or may not remember at this point, we had a brief shutdown just for the course of sort of a long weekend here in january, but largely what congress has done is they funded education programs at the prior year levels. they have not or have not yet created fiscal choice proposals in the president's budget, however, you know, we're only funded now for another couple weeks, another few weeks. the funding expires on march 23rd, and so if congress is unable to come together again on a bipartisan funding solution and their appetite for the short term funding solutions is diminishing, then we would potentially have another sh shutdown. however, it seems very likely that a shutdown has become much less likely because of recent bipartisan action in congress making more funding available, both for fy18, the fiscal year i

the same with hhs, their privacy office. it really is dwarfed by the european regulators who have entire organization set up. there's a question whether the ftc needs a significant increase in resources. there are parts of the digital economy that are not in the ftc's purview. if we are going to get serious about data privacy and security, and we have to come up there has to be a question of whether the ftc is the right agency to do this and if it is, how much more resources does congress need to provide? host: dan in arlington, virginia, a facebook user. caller: good morning. i would be interested in hearing your comments about one area you have not spoken about, the area of personal responsibility. you touched on it. the is a user statement we all signed up for when we voluntarily joined facebook or linked in. what is the responsibility of the individual for a "free service" to understand that the data they are providing is in fact being provided to a company? single usernk every watching this program right now is being re

but the bar is hh. russia has a veto at the u.n., end some eu countries reluctant to contemplate yet more sanctions. today, the russian embassy accusations of involvement in the salisbury attack weregr ndless, as diplomats promised retaliation against any new sanctions. >> russia is not a country to be spoken to in the language of ultimatums i think it is high time of the united kingdom learn that. james: but unless moscow gives britain a satisfactory answer by midnight, some russian diplomats here might be clearing their desks real soon. james landale, bbc news. laura: for more on this unfolding drama, i spoke earlier with john sipher, former membeio of the cia sintelligence service who served in russia. you know the russis well. when they deny all involvement and said this is groundless, what does that mean? john: it means nothing. with his kgb past, they are taught to deny and lie. twe have seen a consist pattern of this when they shot down a malaysian airplane, forth example, whe sent little green m

these are things that gush cash and hh retns on capital. we own boeing, which is a due oply. there's only one competitor selling cheaper than the market. growing faster than the market with a better market fashion. we're low on google which is trading well below the market and obviously great market. so you know, with some o some og neems, believe it or not, are relatively good values. maria: it's interesting to hear a value manager talk about technology. for the longest time we thought about these tech companies about the growth stories not the value stories. but you look at apple and what it's trading at right now, it's got to represent value because it's trading below the market. >> besides the fact that even warren buffet likes it, what's good about it is that it's really got a pretty sticky business. it's got a brand name that people love. coca-cola has been in business for a long time and it's just sugar water but people like the brand. apple has that going for it. but it's an ecosystem of products that work together. so it's far better than the average business. it get

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i update the hard work and dedication of the people at hhs to prove our flu preparedness including those the, nah, and fda. one of our top priorities is to keep americans healthy during the flu season and improve public health spots. i look forward to the testimony today. the chair will now recognize ranking member for purposes of an opening statement. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. i'm happy to have this hearing which seemed to do every year. looking at the witnesses i feel like were getting the band back together again to talk once again about what we can do. i appreciate you all coming in i am hoping that this year we can make progress in talking about all of these issues that the term invention. we have had in this subcommittee seven hearings flu preparedness in 2004 and most recently in 2015 we had to hearings after the country was set with a particularly severe 14 and 15 flu season in which the age three and two dominated in this year again we are experiencing a severe flu season caused by the age three and two in that is a stark reminder of how the flu is very serious. hospit

so one labor hhs appropriations bill that should govern for the year. but we are currently on the fifth short term funding bill of this funding cycle. so starting back in october, we essentially are kicking the can, lurching from funding bill to funding bill. we did have a brief shutdown just for the course of a sort of long weekend here in january, but largely what congress has done has been they funded education programs at the prior year levels, they have not or have not yet created school choice professionals that are in the president's budget. however, we're only funded now for another couple weeks. another few weeks. the funding expires on march 23rd. and so if congress is unable to come together again on a bipartisan funding solution and their appetite for these short term funding solutions or funding bills is diminishing, then we would potentially have another shutdown. however it seems very likely -- or a shutdown has become much less likely because of recent bipartisan action that will make more funding available for fy '18, the fiscal year in

officials say 7 people were on board the hh 60 black hawk when it crashed near the syrian border.estigation is underway but there is no indication of hostile fire. the chopper was not on a combat mission. two naval aviators killed in a deadly crash off the coast of florida have been identified. lieutenant commander james johnson and caleb king died wednesday after eject into the water when their super hornet crashed and caught fire. king leaves behind a wife and 16-month-old daughter and is remembered as a patriot. >> random acts of kindness. i can't believe he is gone. heather: we will talk more about why this happened later. in a few hours crews hope to resume searching for missing worker after a massive chemical plant explodes in texas. first responders evacuating over fears of another blast and toxic fumes. investigators believe an employee sparked the explosion by dragging a foot along the factory floor while chemicals were being mixed. two workers hospitalized. donald trump hitting russell with fresh sanctions for meddling in the 2016 election and targeting the us power grid

he moved tom price out and alex azar in as secretary of hhs and i'm sure there is going to be a lot morehanges to come. that's not chaos. that's called smart staffing. he has been in the white house just over, what, 13 months or so? and now trump knows what he needs in his closest staff and the cabinet, too. and he might not do everything the button down traditional way, well, that's for sure. but he is hitting his stride and he is getting a really strong team in place. think about it this way, when a player isn't performing on the field or on the court, a good coach benches him. and when that same player is a consistent drag on the team, well, a good coach is going to trade him or just let him go entirely. and that's precisely what trump did. and he should do the same with anyone else who seems pained to support his agenda. once he makes his decision final. and that's the angle. for reaction i talked to republican senator bob corker of tennessee just a short time ago. senator corker, good to see you. thanks for first time on the ingraham angle. >> a little late. >> laura: i know we kept

we are literally working 24/7 on this issue and we are all, across hhs, committed to working together to find ways and tools to help americans reduce their risk of getting sick. i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you very much. the chair will now recognize dr. fauci for five minutes for the purposes of his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, ranking member degette, chairman walton, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the role of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at the nih in addressing seasonal and pandemic influenza. does this work? no? it does? where do i point it at? you? doesn't work. can you advance it, please? next slide. as you can see, as i've testified before this committee multiple times, that the nih research in this case in influenza is multifaceted, involving basic research, research resources, clinical research, ultimately with the development of countermeasures in the form of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. for the purpose of today's discussion, i'

it was increased with the therapy cap to the hhs. that has built on both on an ongoing basis. for people who are qualified. that's good to hear. i think the caps have been increased but if you look at the physicians or health care providers who have been wavered not many of them are prescribing up to capacity. it's not the stigma of disease. in taking care of these. this next question is for you. insurance companies that are paying for this? it just got approved at the end of last year. it's going to be on the market. it's not in the market yet. it will be in the market starting in march. do they give a coverage decision on it. not yet. what were finding in a lot of areas in healthcare right now. both drugs and devices and then you get delayed payment decisions which is preventing access to patients. that's a big problem and if that's the case i would appreciate knowing about that because we try to have some impact on that. interesting. in your testimony talking about continuing education is there anything the federal government can do to encourage maybe what i would call grou

i'm also echoing the other comments you've gotten speaking in support for hh 669 and also thanking you so much for paying attention that issue. it's such a huge issue and i know you confront so many issues in terms of all the problems in our city. i've lived here since 1982, but it really does warrant your timely attention. i wanted to particularly support the -- you're support of 669, because it can have a lot of national implications in terms of san francisco speaking up on this. the idea that anybody should have the power to get us into a nuclear war seems so crazy, but it's also really among leaders in the globe who have thought about this issue also does not have resonance. there was a -- in 2006, there was a weapons of mass destruction commission that was headed by hans blitz and it had such illustrious people, switch as rick perry, former secretary of defense, on it. they were looking at the issues reeled to ha 669 and i wanted to quote. so long as any state has nuclear weapons, others will want them. and i will just say that they said that the -- nobody should have the power to

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