but let's open it up to other people and forget healthcare workers, you cannot forget the healthcare workers. these are the nurses, doctors, people on the front line and they are in the greatest risk and there also the greatest threat, we have saratoga jewelry store employee who has covid that were doing the contact tracing that was in a retail store a lot of people walk out of a retail store, a super a nurse what happens if or a doctor is covid positive and sees 100 patients during the day, healthcare workers are the first priority for both reasons and we've only allocated half the vaccine to do the size of the population. that is why i say a lot as a supply issue as well as the dissemination issue. if a hospital has done all their healthcare workers and says we are maxed out we have done everyone, fine, contact us and will take the supply back and will go to essential workers. but as a group we've only allocated in distributed half of the vaccine necessary to do the healthcare workers, after we finish one a healthcare workers then we go to 1b which is essential workers and people w

the second the va healthcare facility and do not have full healthcare choice.s i discussed earlier, it is greatly improved, to have more healthcare choices. with their siblings to be improvement there. we want to show that the veterans have a choice between a strong va and private sector options for unit. >> what would you, what kind of job do you think the outgoing section areas on . dan: i think you have to divide up his tenure. before this year, i think he was doing a good job. however this year, i thank you so performance has been frankly terrible. there's really no other way to describe it. the leadership of the va suspended in any cases access to community care for the va mission act. which restricted access to in the middle of a pandemic. i think i heard thee va and also hurt any private sector care providers. it deprives them of a customer base at a time when any of them were struggling to keep the doors open. and then in addition, you have this recent inspector general report and informed that the secretary had cleared the veteran through and made some

our healthcare leaders, our healthcare workers did that. people contributed to make that work and once again our healthcare leaders and healthcare heroes and workers were there working with educators and staff together doing what many said were impossible. now they are the safest in new york city. i want to speak for the healthcare heroes and leadership and let everyone know how exceptionally they have performed. it is about trusting the people that have actually done the work, trusting the people that have accomplished so much time and time again and people that have devoted their whole lives to protecting and saving the lives of others. that is what we are doing here in the city and its work time and time again and it may work again going forward trust is crucial and i want to express to everyone clearly my trust in our healthcare leaders and healthcare workers all the healthcare workers and i want to say very clearly there are healthcare heroes in cities and counties and new york state doing the same thing. they should be trusted and res

holdouts in the healthcare industry? and are hospitals gonna make the vaccine mandatory? >> reporter: hospitals and healthcare systems probably are not gonna make the vaccines mandatory, at least right now. and for those holdouts, it might just take time. they haven't said no. they'd they defer. so not yet. and as more friends and coworkers get the vaccine, it might be easier to persuade them later on. >>> live to kenny choi who is in san francisco where california's expanded vaccine rollout is causing a lot of confusion among some people tonight. >> reporter: sutter health today started vaccinating thoseho andg care of its healthcare workers first, but is there a lot of confusion as to where each healthcare system is in inoculating different groups and who's eligible now. 82-year-old joanne is one of lucky ones. >> some of my friends who are in my age group, and they're waiting for it. their doctors can get back to them. >> reporter: sign-ups depend on each county as well as your medical provider. >> it depends on the a

the germans additional healthcare personnel staffing . activating the georgia emergency management and homeland security agency statewide network. state security and tired warehouses of ppe, from hundreds of vendors which was immediately said to hospitals , nursing homes, doctors offices and other healthcare providers on the front lines. because of their around-the-clock efforts under the leadership of armor director homer bryson director chris stallings, the state now has at least and 80 day supply of all critical ppe categories. as our hospital and nursing homes confront the fiercest part of the pandemic, the front-line healthcare workers in these facilities have literally faced hell on earth . under conditions or multiple shifts over months now. there's no doubt that george's healthcare euros have done their job with the grit and determination has inspired 1 million georgians. never has it been clearer how important your job is and how vital all of you are to keeping our state healthy and prosperous. i want to thank you for sacrificing

this is across all of our providers and largely healthcare workers who live in san francisco. to give you the overall picture of where we are with tier 1a, it's important to note that our entire system in san francisco has received 102,000, about 102,000 doses. again, these are for both first and second doses to everyone, including department of public health, kaiser, sutter, dignity, ucsf and others. tier 1a in san francisco is comprised of more than 210,000 people, all of whom need to receive two doses, including approximately 80 to 90,000 healthcare workers, 11,000 inhome care workers, 110,000 people over the age of 65, as well as e.m.t.s, community healthcare workers, and others who qualify in tier 1a. this really shows that while we are making progress we simply need more vaccines. as i said, we are going to be out of our vaccines this week if we don't get more. now i can't do this presentation every day, but people do want answers every day. so to better track vaccine distribution we launched a new vaccine dashboard which you can find on the city's covid dashboard, where

it goes without saying covid-19 has drastically changed the way we deliver healthcare. the demand for telehealth has increased significantly and we will continue to be a major need going forward. this is why we invested over $5 million last year to expand broadband for telehealth across the state. why we are proposing over $4 million to support telehealth and telemedicine for individuals with developmental disabilities. additionally we are seeking investment of over $20 million for 50 new community mental health and substance abuse disorder advocates and crisis centers across the state. [applause] these are important mental-health investments for some of our most vulnerable citizens. our administration is also committed to ensuring patient protection and improving healthcare accessibility and expanding health insurance options for missouri. which leads me to another change we must make after the passage of amendment to this past august. like i have said many times i will always uphold the will of the voters and we will move forward with the expanding medicaid coverage t

history and building of george's moment with all sectors of the healthcare industry. with a result of covid-19 and that we learned early on that we cannot waste time on states are adversaries no nation should hold a monopoly on life-saving medical supplies and we should be these clinical industries and the jobs that come with them back to america back to georgia despite the challenges am exceptionally we can accomplish working together last year. the first time is a search story reenacted a public health state of emergency possibility of the tools needed to leader state the covid-19 crisis. as i said many times that decision was not made lightly and i will thank you for place placing the trusted me working alongside the state budget director we can make the difficult challenges the session reconvened to work with us the balance budget the to these were california and new york and other spend their 2020 throwing stones in glass houses here in georgia and to like them each day will not be facing budget cuts this year practical careful planning of the pandemic subverts w

georgia is home to healthcare's strongest killers with the cdc, several healthcare systems, and medical research institutions like augusta university and embree and as we look to the future on the other side of covid-19, we should focus, and and to the healthcare industry, building on georgia's momentum to become a leader in all sectors of the healthcare industry. we learned many lessons as a result of covid-19 and when we learned early on is one that we cannot waste time for states and other foreign adversaries, one nation should not hold a monopoly life-saving medicals supplies or equipment and we should bring -- [applause] >> we should bring these critical industries and the jobs that come with them back to america and here to georgia. [applause] despite the challenges of 2020, i am exceptionally proud of what we are able to accomplish while working together last year. for the first time in our state's history the general assembly enacted a public health state of emergency granting the flexibility and tools needed to lead our state through the covid-19 crisis. and and and the state b

this is across all of our providers and largely healthcare workers who live in san francisco. to give you the overall picture of where we are with tier 1a, it's important to note that our entire system in san francisco has received 102,000, about 102,000 doses. again, these are for both first and second doses to everyone, including department of public health, kaiser, sutter, dignity, ucsf and others. tier 1a in san francisco is comprised of more than 210,000 people, all of whom need to receive two doses, including approximately 80 to 90,000 healthcare workers, 11,000 inhome care workers, 110,000 people over the age of 65, as well as e.m.t.s, community healthcare workers, and others who qualify in tier 1a. this really shows that while we are making progress we simply need more vaccines. as i said, we are going to be out of our vaccines this week if we don't get more. now i can't do this presentation every day, but people do want answers every day. so to better track vaccine distribution we launched a new vaccine dashboard which you can find on the city's covid dashboard, where

his state of the state address thursday focusing on the states coronavirus response, the budget, healthcare and passing hate crime legislation. from the capitol in atlanta this is one hour and ten minutes. >> please take your seats. will you please read a resolution. ... >> [applause] also a great friend speaker pro tem jones. [applause] and from the senate, a great friend of all of ours president pro tem of the senate butch miller. [applause] and some of your entire family has gained great respect and to be excited about your efforts around human trafficking and the first lady of the state of georgia mrs. camp. [applause] and it's a great honor to choose the first lady of this chamber ms. bradburn. [applause] will what is unable to make it today due to a previous scheduled appointment but my son parker in the first son of the house thank you. [applause] my to take a moment to welcome many of you back to the general assembly i also went welcome so many of you that are here for the first time. it's hard to believe this is my ninth general assembly i have been around it's hard to imagine them

." >> we can still vaccinate healthcare workers. but if you have unused doses, call these people, can you show up here in 30 minutes? we'll vaccinate you. >> reporter: l.a. county needs to vaccinate ten million people twice and believes unused doses need to be administered efficiently and quickly. >> what we need to do in the county is immediately have a wait list of people who are 65 and older. because that's the group i think we should vaccinate as quickly as possible. the best thing we can do for our healthcare workers and our overloaded hospitals is to vaccinate the general public. >> reporter: that was rachel kim reporting. mobile testing buses are rolling onto bay areast the goal is to boost testing access inlt for residents and homeless populations without burdening healthcare systems. these buses are expected to arrive in five bay area counties and debuted in sonoma county today. >>> some big-name tech companies are joining forces to build a digital covid vaccine pass pore. if you get the vaccine, all you have to show for it

and therefore, to try to get rid of a healthcare policy that brought healthcare to over 20 million peoplehave it. who said we are going to get rid of the ban on pre-existing conditions because people who have diabetes, people that have lupus and high blood pressure shouldn't be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. the law that says it is wrong, it is unjust to charge women more for healthcare because their bodies were designed to reproduce the human race. [cheering] [honking] and i was there on the floor of the united states senate it must have been 2:00 in the morning, early morning hours where the consequence of that moment was an important piece of legislation to be determined. and i witnessed the power of just one senator in the united states senate when the late great john mccain said no you don't. you remember that? you have a decision to elect to united states senators. [honking] that is the power that is in your hands, to elect two individuals that are outstanding leaders. i know them. i've spent time with them. we've talked and prayed together. we've talked about

however, being a healthcare provider does not have to do the land. we appreciate their high level of care but it doesn't mean they have license to build whatever they want when they want regardless of how it effects the community. ucsf must improve parnassus campus. we have concerns about transportation, air quality, housing availability in the community. this isn't about blocking ucsf they need to renovate it's pushing back against over development and giving real considerations to the jobs and housing balances that have been troubling the city before they moved forward. i support the resolution to delay the vote. >> thank you, next speaker, please. you have two minutes. >> caller: hello, supervisors, i'm a policy manager at the barrie council and i'll calling in support of ucsf parnassus plan and m.o.u. with the city and i am proud to support this -- and having continue to take the community back. it will have serious consequences from the public's health. as we would covid-19 pandemic in the medical needs. this project is limit today campus has no

and therefore try to get rid of a healthcare policy that brought healthcare over 20 million people whof the ban on pre-existing conditions because people who have diabetes, who have lupus, who have high for the pre-existing condition. a law that said it is wrong to charge women more for healthcare because their bodies were designed to reproduce the human race. and i was there then on the floor of the united states senate. it must've been 2:00 o'clock in the morning, it was early morning hours the consequence of that most important peace of legislation would be determined. and i witnessed just one senator and the united states senate. when the late great john mccain said no you don't. do you remember that? do you remember that? and savanna you have a decision to elect to united states senators. that is the power that is in your hands to elect two individuals who are outstanding leaders raphael warnock and jon ossoff. i know them. i've spent time with them. we have talked, we have. together. we've talked of the fate of our country, the future of our country. they talk to be about the sta

the pandemic to issue an executive order with license healthcare professionals with reciprocity healthcare workers to continue we can encourage more healthcare professionals to choose the good life to help me state needs. this also takes important steps those that are been under bell built and 40 years in the infrastructure is aging.

departments have been working alongside the national guard and all of her public healthcare and healthcare workers around the state to respond to covid-19. soak testing and contact tracing and other effortsto continue, and now they arenu standing up a monumental vaccination effort across the state and so it is all hands on deck. we very much of appreciate the support of the governor of the national guard and others in this effort. over the last few weeks there we have been working very closely with their federal and statee partners to ensure that the vaccines get to the facilities in maryland. as the governor illustrated, it does take some time. for the time that they tell usha that we have a vexing allocation to when we order it, and then when it actually gets delivered to the states and to a certain facility. and that's before vaccinations begin. over the last few weeks our hospitals and local health departments implementing our plans that has been happening behind the scenes. including staff training, education, communications to the eligible groups, coordination with local providers, c

the pandemic to issue an executive order with license healthcare professionals with reciprocity healthcare workers to continue we can encourage more healthcare professionals to choose the good life to help me state needs. this also takes important steps those that are been under bell built and 40 years in the infrastructure is aging. >> for a total of 230 million dollars by the time it is completed and operational in 2025. finally, we must continue to invest in better community connectivity through broadband internet it is no secret that many nebraska don't have access to broadband. over 80,000 nebraska households lack broadband speeds of at least 25.3. the pandemic has revealed how impossible work from home or remote education can be for those on the wrong side of digital divide. over the last several months, we were tiebl use cares act money to begin connecting 17600 households with broadband. additional households are expected to receive broadband using existing resources over the next two years. >> senator friezen speaker and i are prpgzing we invest 20 million in each of the next two

. >>> why healthcare workers eligible for the vaccine are saying no thanks? >>> step up security, six days ahead of the inauguration. why the governor is calling in the national guard? >> it was more like a shove. i was laying in bed. i felt one push and allowed her push. that was it. >> folks across the edby an ear what did it ke the epicenter? >>> we begin this evening with a critical vote that may open the door to massive, stadium vaccinations in the bay area. the oakland coliseum might be the bay area's next mass vaccination site. we will know for sure 12 hours from now. that is when alameda county will consider a request to hold a drive-through site in the parking lot. we are looking live at oracle park. other stadiums are being considered as well. supersize like this one at dodger stadium is opening this week. he used to be la county's >>> zens of san fran s lineup and were rey to roll up thves today when they began and older. kenny choi reports tonight. the expanded rollout is generating interest and confusion.>> reporter: sutter health started to inoc

our healthcare workers have stepped up heroically to keep nebraskans healthy. data shows that nebraskans stayed home when we asked them to last spring. and now, nebraskans are embracing the coronavirus vaccine. thanks to the individual contributions of countless nebraskans and our six pillars, our state has successfully ensured that everyone that needs a hospital bed, icu bed, or ventilator has had access to one. this approach has helped us strike that balance between slowing the spread of the virus and allowing people to live a more normal life. even as we've had to overcome the challenge of the pandemic, the work of nebraskans everywhere has kept the state of the state strong. while protecting hospital capacity, we have also been working to help nebraskans recover. the federal government has invested over $10 billion in aid into our state. the state steered federal coronavirus relief towards $411 million in grants for nebraska's businesses and family farms. we also provided over $80 million to aid non-profit and community-based organizations ranging from food

humana, a more human way to healthcare.nation's capital locking down in the aftermath of the capitol hill riot on wednesday. crowd control measures and increase security as a city is mourning the death of a capitol hill police officer. mike tobin live on the streets of washington for us. >> we got a statement from the family of the capitol hill police officer who died in the line of duty holding the mob away from the u.s. capital his name is officer brian, he was a veteran of the new jersey serving freedom and operation field, it reads as follows many details regarding wednesday's events and the direct causes of brian's injuries remain unknown in the family as a public impressed to respect her wishes and not making brian's passing a political issue, please honor brian's life in service and respect her privacy while we move forward in doing the same brian is a hero and that is what we would like people to remember, brian saint nick was a 12 year veteran of the police force, the first responders unit the six officer to ever d

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the first shots began with high risk front-line healthcare workers and nursing homes. now all tears under phase 1a. >> i interpret that as we are ramping things up. >> reporter: george rutherford says the expansion is a promising sign. >> it will have to ramp up a little bit more but it is all going in the right direction. >> reporter: california is training more vaccinate or's including the national guard and pharmacy technicians, and dentists. beginning wednesday, safeway pharmacist will begin vaccinating thousands of healthcare workers in sonoma county. soon, this psa will be everywhere, so who gets the vaccine next? phase 1b, tier 1, including anyone 75 or older, grocery clerks, farmworkers, and tachers. >> people in the education system can expect to start getting vaccinated, childcare, so teachers, healthcare professionals across the board. >> now we just got off the phone with public health. officials are moving on to phase 1b and we vaccinating high school teachers this thursday. elementary school teachers and workers will follow. >>> tonight, guerrillas at the

our hospitals have been administrating healthcare workers and others. our federal partners have been administering vaccines in long-term care facilities and local health departments have now been provided vaccines and they are ramping up their vaccination efforts at the local level. as of this week again emphasizing the licensing and certified workers in the state of maryland are eligible for vaccination and distribution to first responders and others including 911 specialists and correctional officers beginning at the local level and we will ramp up in the next few weeks. i've been speaking to a number of health officers around the state and talking about the vaccine clinics and about the work that they have been doing to stand up training staff and others to make sure that they are administered safely, effectively and efficiently. they've been implementing the plans that have been developed in the course of many years and more specifically, over the last few months. many started to vaccinate not only the first responders but other healthcare workers a

bear with the vaccine, do they have side effects, and more hesitant healthcare workers are also healthcare workers in communities of color, or the more partisan right-wing of the republican party, those are groups that across populations express more hesitancy, we are seeing this personal -- the professional or scientific in terms of judgment taking the vaccine. what we are going to see bigger issues in terms of vaccine rollout, to get into people, essential workers, critical infrastructure workers, to get into the elderly, people with chronic medical conditions, we have a supply problem right now, a massive distribution problem, looking at these groups independently, critical infrastructure workers, and those groups are different, how do you certify that they are eligible so that is one group that will be challenging to figure out how to target, barrier challenges may not be as mobile, may not be able, as easily, and medical conditions, some of these same mobility challenges. we have to address vaccine rollout in terms of what is the real bottleneck. the message about vaccine hesitancy wh

many of those more hesitant healthcare workers are also healthcare workers who are from communities of color or from the more partisan right-wing of the republican party and those are groups that across the population had expressed more hesitancy about that scene so think what you're seeing is personal trumping perhaps a professional or scientific in terms of their judgment as to whether they want to take the vaccine. where we are really going to see bigger issues in terms of vaccine rollout is what we are calling phase 1b in the united states which is where you start to get into people who are what we call essential workers are really critical infrastructure workers, where you get into the elderly, people over the thf 65 and people with chronic medical conditions. there we certainly have a supply problem right now but we also have a massive distribution problem. so look at each of those groups independently, so the critical infrastructure workers, who are those people? how to identify those people? those groups are going to be different from state to state and then how do you certify

at ucsf, 1100 healthcare workers a day are getting their dose. dr. joshua adler what's more, asap. >> we need to increase the rate in which we are able to deliver vaccine. >> reporter: among those getting first dose of, alejandra guzman, and e.r. tech. >> gives you a little more hope and protection. so yeah definitely a smidge of hope. >> reporter: it is not just healthcare workers. by this time tomorrow, all of the residence at laguna honda hospital like bernadette he and jesper harris will have their first dose is. the vaccine come after months of worry and want outbreak the cdc was called in to help control. >> this is a moment but it is a real moment of hope for our city. and we should be so proud. i know it is hard right now. but remember, that each one of these people laguna honda being vaccinated, is someone who will continue to have birthdays with families and visits with friends. >> reporter: the state department of public health is coordinating the allocation of vaccines. the doses are coming directly from the manufacturer to hospitals. the

those healthcare systems i know are working to get the vaccine out as quickly as possible.don't have any direct control in terms of their ability to do that. here in the health department we have either administered the vaccine or all the vaccine has been allocated, so again, we are due to run out of vaccine this thursday. >> thank you. the next question comes from heather knight of the san francisco chronicle. when do you anticipate vaccine doses arriving in bigger numbers? when will all san franciscans who want vaccinations be able to get them in your estimation? >> i wish i had an answer for you on that one. what we are doing, as you know, is filling up a multi-pronged approach, including the mass sites, including the continued expansion of the clinical sites, pharmacy partnerships and the pop-ups. so san francisco will be ready when that comes. i hope tomorrow's change in federal leadership that day is closer than it otherwise would be. but we are ready when that happens. >> thank you, doctor colfax. your final question comes from various news outlets. do you anticipate

the last year rural healthcare facilities throughout the country including maine senate, no.saw repeatedly the problems rural america based in accessing care, long drives to the doctors offices, shortages both primary care and specialist and the rush of hospital and clinical closures. we released recommendations from our rural health task force earlier this year shared by former senators national and snow and former governors. the task force recommended expanding broadband to rural communities in my understanding, a quarter of rural communities and one third trouble communities lack any form of broadband access. we knew broadband will be expensive and it will take time to implement. the task force recommended to allow rural americans to take advantage of telehealth through other means such as telephone audio only consultations. we are proud here that some of the taskforces recommendations made it to the final legislation enacted earlier this year along with the department of health and human services rural action plan they issued recently but that emergency legislation, the c

affordable healthcare. a livable wage. get ready to reclaim our democracy and reclaim the future of all of our children. god bless you. let's when the future. ♪ ♪ ♪ no good ♪ ♪ keep on falling ♪ ♪ keep on turning ♪ ♪ ♪ >> yeah, yeah, yeah. let's keep this energy going. what's up are we ready to win tomorrow? what's up we're going to keep it going. without further ado, i bring to you jon ossoff to the stage. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering] forever, i love atlanta. [cheering] give it up for my brother, the reverend rafael warnock. [cheering] atlanta, georgia. it all comes down to this. tomorrow is election day. the eyes of the nation are on georgia right now. the eyes of the world are on georgia right now. feel your power, georgia. tomorrow we make history. i want you to say it with me now, say about. [cheering] save the. [chanting] tomorrow we make history. think about how far we have come, atlanta. [cheering] think about how far we've come in the great state of georgia, think about how far we've come. in the america south. georgia is t

these applies to all people not just healthcare workers. you find anyway to depoliticize depoliticize the effort to combat covid-19. whether it is with social distancing wearing masks or the vaccine? see that the thing is, this is a horrific event that we are going through. many number of deaths is hard to get your head around at this point. and even other massive disparities there's something everyone could feel impacts them. so on many levels left like this could have been a really unifying event for the country, us against the virus, right? and has been anything but print it is been used to drive deeper divisions. i am really careful to not politics and public health. i say public health is inherently political. but then i think all of lice is very think one we fell into a scientist is i am a scientist therefore i am neutral, i am objective. and i'm like no you're not. you are a human not a robot. he took all your biases in your life experiences with you. i do think a lot about how this could have been a unifying event where it doesn't m

workers applying to all people, not just healthcare workers. depoliticize covered moderates with social distancing, wearing masks or the vaccine? >> this is a horrific event we are going through, the numbers of deaths is hard to get your head around this time and even though there is massive disparity from everyone could feel impact on many levels this is a unifying have a virus and it but, it's used to drive division. public health, public health is life is. trying to be like i am a scientist, i am objective. unlike no, you're not. yore human. talk to biases in your life experience in the way you look to the world, i don't see a way but i do think about it being a unifying event, it doesn't matter what side you're on your level and then we get into even more research about knowledge levels public health behavior of people who watch fox news and are conservatives but it gets really interesting. >> i'd love for you to elaborate on that. >> i'm sure you have heard about the fox news affect because it's been for many years but more recently, resea

workers which is about 25% maybe 30% of healthcare workers who want to wait to see, they want to wait on the sidelines and see how it goes and see how others fare with the and do they have side effects and many of those more hesitant healthcare workers are also healthcare workers who are from communities of color or from the more partisan right wing of the republican party and those are groups that across the population have expressed more hesitancy and so what you're saying is personal trumping perhaps the professional or scientific in terms of their judgment as to whether they want to take the vaccine. where we will really see tigger issues in terms of vaccine rollout is what we are calling phase 1b in the united states which is where you start to get in to people who are what we called essential workers or critical infrastructure workers where you get into the elderly, people over the age of 65 and people with chronic medical conditions and there we certainly have a supply problem right now but we also have a massive distribution problem so looking at each of those groups independe

the jp morgan healthcare is going virtual. with more people focusing on healthcare space we got an early look as i just mentioned of the perrigo caller and see what they have to say. stay with cramer >> don't miss a second of "mad money," follow @jim cramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtwits, send jim an e-mail at madmoney.cnbc.com or give us a call 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something head to madmoney.cnbc.com. ♪ what do i do when my love is away, ♪ ♪ does it worry you e? ♪ ♪ how do i feel at the end of the day, ♪ ♪ are you sad because you're on your own? ♪ ♪ i get by with a little help from my friends, ♪ ♪ oh, gonna try with a little help from my friends. ♪ that's why we're bringing out our best deal on the new iphone 12 with 5g. right now, get the iphone 12 on us on every single plan. switch now and save 20% on your bill versus the other guys. and that's not an introductory rate, that's the best value in wireless. that's right. the iphone 12 on us. on america's 5g leader in coverage. and save 20% per month. shar

do you believe like reverend warnock that healthcare is a human right and not just a drivilege for those that can afford it or live in the right zip code? i was in georgia about a week and a half ago in randolph county. they lost their hospital in october. it just shut down. think about that for a moment. here in the state of georgia in the middle of a pandemic in the wealthiest country in the world, the hospital closed and now people have to drive all the way for columbus to get an emergency room. we do not have to accept that, georgia. we have lost nine hospitals in the state in ten years. but if you send us to the senate, we will deliver the resources to reopen those hospitals and deliver the resources to every community of the state because healthcare is a human right, not just a privilege for those that live in the right part of the state. health, jobs and justice for all the people. let's talk about jobs for a moment. for eight months, the united states senate blocked the relief that people need. for eight months straight, david was adamant that he proposed stimulus checks for the

connecticut expanded healthcare access at less cost for the first time in years . two years ago i said i do not want our state bound by a chronic fiscal crisis which had been armed more and sapping our confidence. >> .. s perhaps it's the quality of our education or a more stable fiscal outlook, maybe it's our mayors who rot our cities and town centers to life including some of the best, safest outdoor dining experiences in the country. covid may not be our last pandemic and our new neighbors arriving in moving vans prefer quarantining in small backyard rather than a small apartment or telecommuting rather than taking a crowded subway. whatever the reason, as people seek to improve the quality of their lives they are choosing connecticut. tens of thousands of your families have moved to the state for the first time in a generation because they recognize and appreciate our connecticut values. connecticut was ranked one of the best states in the country to raise a family for women, for working mothers, and for public safety. within those rankings can edit ranks highe

they were firefighters, healthcare workers, nuns, educators, entrepreneurs, community pillars, students, veterans, volunteers, bird watchers, card players, and packers, brewers, and bucks fans. they were moms and dads, brothers and sisters, friends, and coworkers, and they are loved and missed by many. so, tonight, i'd like to dedicate this address to those who we've lost this year and the families -- the sons and daughters, moms and dads, grandparents and grandkids, friends, and neighbors left behindwho, on top of everything else this past year, have had to mourn the loss of someone they love. and i'd ask you to join me briefly in a moment of silence to honor the lives of these wisconsinites we lost to covid-19. thank you. as i stood before you and delivered my second state of the state address last year, the world and our state looked much different than it does now. we were coming off a successful year making a down payment on our priorities like fully funding our public schools, fixing our crumbling roads and bridges, and making healthcare more accessible and affordable. we put $330

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healthcare access has always been a challenge. the va provides excellent healthcare in its own facilities but those facilities are not in every community. the mission act -- the act that you worked on the choice act another mission act gives veterans permanent choice to utilize community healthcare providers when it makes sense for them and not when it's convenient for va bureaucrats, i asked president biden and also asked for your commitment to uphold the law by supporting the common sense notion that it's the veteran who should be at the center of the healthcare decisions. we know the public health measures reduce the spread of covid are also increasing the risk of social isolation and mental health conditions. va has its tools that it can used to help, community care, and funding by congress can work together to mitigate the physical, mental, social and economic well-being, furthermore programs like the g.i. bill, veterans readiness and appointment and transition insistence can help them out of the military successfully and lau

we lead with healthcare, wrong path to take. infrastructure brings the country together and the roadmap is already there. bipartisan support for what needs to be done and the money can be there and the country needs that in my opinion and we are ready to do it. >> for some of the stimulus and other things, some people have been increasing taxes. do you expect a tax increase this year or next? >> i think there's an appetite on the left for the fair share argument and raising revenue, so that's going to be part of the conversation. you've got to pick infrastructure over the horizon and the whole electronic vehicle. there is some legitimate conversations going on on how to take care of that revenue. >> final question for you. you are the youngest of 12 children. what is it like to grow up with 11 siblings? i had none. how many nieces and nephews did you have and can you remember their names? it's tough to keep track of the number but i guess it's a little bit like being in congress. i was always told when you you guys fight, figure