and digital health. i know it is great for consultants who have a lot of clients who have telehealth that we keep moving it by a year or two years because it gives them something to successfully lobby on. i think from a patient standpoint and clinician standpoint, and for providers more broadly, we have to get a minute reform in place that gives a promise of access long term as opposed to making medicare seniors who arguably have the highest need for telehealth services saying, there is at the end of the year if the congress can't get their act together, then you are going to fall off of the cliff. it is unethical and unkind and i think the bipartisan folks we join in. lezah: we have done a lot of research talking to seniors on telehealth care and is something people don't want to go away and they wanted between in-person and virtual. it is true that something can be given and taken away is something they expect from the health system and we can prove them wrong. natalie: any thing else on 19th congress

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health care is a huge issue. maybe i should figure out a lot of details of health care. ben cardin, his parents died of cancer, incredibly into the weeds on health care, was really helpful for many years on health care. bill thomas was a freshman of the ways and means committee, i gave him a copy of the book, he read the whole thing. i gave a seminar and he became smarter than the staff. i remember tutoring john kasich when he was in the early 90's. you have to care about it to learn the details. i'm finding a handful of members and actually understand how to do that. before they say look, we care about health care. >> i had that experience with the energy and commerce committee. senators and members and others, some of the policy issues, people would say why do we understand this? it is hard to understand. >> great discussion. i want to transition to some questions from the audience. things that we glanced by, but have not really addressed. one of the questions is if the area of cost is in pharmaceuticals, what do you think is the best in a value-based context? >> i do

and dectly benefit from better health and lower health care price. let's have transparency. there are many provisions so that ensure integrity of the billing. we need -- [indiscernible] >> this is the only pathway for us to benefit all americans. >> i the senior fellow and economic policy at the american enterprise institute and the role of health care costs and personal finances. expert in medical debt and speak to the broader consequences. >> thank you very much. like you said i'm an economist. much of my work focuses on health care costs and personal finances. the medical debt is not just health care is unpredictable but health care markets. the costs are high, the billing can be complicated and inaccurate. that said the landscape is changing. recent policy changes have reduced on credit reports and would seek to reduce their role. i do want to make two points. first, i really do not want to be pessimistic but policy makers should have expectations how it will improve finances and that is one of the goals here. at this point we have a large body o

and it's the same with mental health. of people who are not born with a mental health condition, but under traumatic circumstances, either in childhood or indeed war, where these happen to people who've never otherwise had to consider that their mind might lose its focus, its equanimity, its contentment, its peace, its reliability. and it's extraordinary to me that in ukraine this is being talked about. when i went there for this conference, there was an openness — not complete, there were plenty of soldiers... i spoke to some boys who had lost limbs, and the joking or whatever, and when i asked them if they ever felt low about it, theyjust went, "nah, " like that. and then when the camera was off, they went up to me and said, "of course, you know, i cry. "my mother cries, and i cry when i see her cry." and i said, "it's ok to talk about that. "don't feel you have to be... "that it's somehow more of a soldier not to." you know, great human beings are great human there's just something you're born with, and it can be trigg

, brain health, and bone health. in may, the department of defense and v.a. launched a new joint effort to improve research for women in the military and for women veterans. on monday i'll be at the global initiative and share more information. the department of health and human services announced new planning to address the mental health and substance abuse needs for women. your agencies are strengthening standards so that when the government funds research, it includes women from the beginning. that means making sure women are enrolled in clinical trials and researchers design studdies, analyze data, and report findings in ways that improve women's health. joe's order directed more than any directive to look at women's research. and he asked congress for $12 million for the health discoveries we need. our white house initiative has built momentum for health research focused on women. but we have to keep moving forward. we have to keep working across government and the private sector and incentivize innovative healt

that is good mental health. to get down the road of mental illness and spend all her time trying to course correct thinking and patterns of behavior when they are too far down the track of pathology. peter: you have one minute to tell us about your co-author, stephen friede. patrick: he teaches journalism at columbia. i was fortunate to get to know him when he did a magazine article on me on mental health. i loved his writing. i asked him to write with me on my own autobiography. i had to get him to help me with this because he is so good at narrative, connecting the dots, and that is what this whole story is, it is about weaving this complex story into a narrative people can wrap their arms around. that is certainly a challenge in this space, one that he really helped us do. peter: "profiles in mental health courage" is the name of the book. our guest has been patrick kennedy. thank you. patrick: thank you, peter. >> all q&a programs are available on our website or as a podcast on c-span now.

cigna did in 2024, health equity, 5 or 6 pages on how they are looking at health equity. one of the best papers i read. it makes sense. 3 or 4 items moving forward and while we think we had gone too far and value-based care we've got a long way and some of our best successes we don't even think of as value-based care, things like joints and assortments, we've got great outcomes with that, we've come a long way and totally redone how we think about transplants and there are ways we can still move forward but can't do it all at once. >> i go, have to really stretch to say something interesting, great discussion so far. everybody mentioned how important coverage is. and a mechanism for coordinating, getting overall accountability for what you are spending, benchmarks about that and all of these managed care programs and was you're getting for it which is a notable change on health insurance, used to be paying for services without a lot of intentional focus on what we are achieving at a huge shift in the last 20 or 30 years, medicare, people think of it as a public program th

s world health assembly. now, supporting taiwan's full membership in the w.h.o., however, is inconsistent with u.s. policy and would undermine our long-standing one china policy. given taiwan is not a u.n. member state. but taiwan should, as i believe this amendment properly states, have full observer status in the w.h.o. so i would urge all of my colleagues to support mr. ogles' amendment, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. ogles: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the comments of my colleague because we should show our support and allegiance to taiwan. nor should we placate the people's republic of china regarding taiwan. we are, in fact, making war more likely not less if we allow the chinese communist party to have influence over our policy over such things as taiwan's participation at w.h.o. we cannot and should not surrender you are our national sovereignty out of fear. this is the definition of weakness and w

health care system is overwhelmed. health industry saying that at various clinics have been turned into a mix of hospitals and doctors are working around the clock. they have has ask for help from regional countries and they've received sun, but certainly it's for to be very difficult for them to do with the number of civilian casualties. us. ok, thank you for all those updates. dorset and jabari up at displacements send 10 favorite for us. so let's go to stephanie deca. she's not even amman. jordan, that is the coolest because these rarely governors find out, is there a from reporting in side israel? so stephanie, if you can bring us up to date with all the, the license lines, a you a guessing from israel, i mean, within the last 2 hours or so, we got this update from the is really ministry saying that it was cooling up. it's was that troops along its northern florida. what else of we had yes, it's pulling up 2 bags of reservist as they say to the northern come on to help operational activities. i think, you know, a l

health. individual choices make them healthy or not. it's about what you eat, not drinking alcohol and exercising, but 70 to 80% they have no control over related to systemic factors like the neighborhoods that they've lived in, the workplaces that they spend a lot of time in determining how healthy they are. when i think about the care my mother delivered to her patients, she was recognizing when she was in the room with patients, it was family members, fellow colleagues, employees. really taking into consideration the factors that we know today determine how healthy someone is and very much so it is less dependent on the choices people make and more so determined by environment, a model that not enough medical schools and programs focus on and that we know from the data has the largest impact on how healthy communities are. host: you mentioned your mother's mentors and i want to call them out. junot mulvaney and milford clark , who were they? dr. blackstone: dr. june was my pediatrician, a

health at home. health at home is trying to survey with a three-star waiting that a marked improvement from precovid. for sucker burge san francisco general hospital we have reduced our waiting time to come in and seek services at our outpatient clinic and it's four days better than national standard of 21 days. from laguna honda hospital we're fully certified and providing support to in coming new admissions. and lastly san francisco health network, while we continue to invest in our teams through workforce care development, we have initialed such as culture belongings session and health at home and a retreat. because we truly believe the quality and safety occurs at the care of trust as we continue to focus on value base approach to sefsht needs of all san franciscans. thank you. >> next slide please. >> i get to pitch the work on this slide fm it's the tragedy and development. it's a mouthful but our inaugural director is a team of lawn but he's a force. the products that were discussed earlier, a

and we have asa director of community health in the population health commission. thank you we've been looking forward to hearing from you. >> thank you so much, thank you so much for inviting us back to speak with you. as president green said, i'm susan philip i'm the director at division in dph and i'm joined by asa king who is our director deputy, so we're very happy to be representing the work of the disciplinary team that focuses on the clean up on the hunters point shipyard and supporting the surrounding neighborhoods. as a reminder before we begin the presentation, for the structure of the work at hunters point na val shipyard. the navy is the number one clean up and it operates under a tight federal system of regulation and clean up. and the regulators include the u.s. environmental protection agency, the california department of toxic control, and california regional control board and california department of public health. the san francisco department of public health does not have a regulatory role of the regulators that i just mentioned. however, we do

from people who have these mental health issues. and i think there's a sort of us versus them kind of separation, you know, that someone might see was homeless or struggling in some sort of way talking to themselves that we can never be that way. and then no one we care about couldn't really be that way. i think there's definitely that that sort of disposition i think that and that informs a lot of how we do policy and how we treat mental health a separate i think is a really big deal. and so so one day i was going down to the e.r. to on the medical a medical intern. so i'm still thinking cardiologist point. and our goal was to actually there's a person who's there sort of acting strange and we're supposed to do a medical clearance means we're supposed to make sure there's not he doesn't have a tumor or some sort of infection or something else it might be causing his behavior. and then i walk in there and i this is a person looks familiar and i just sort of like do this double take. and then like, man, that's, you know, so-and-so th

over in our health law. the health law twhorld is one we learned about through our community need's assessment process. in 2018. i think is when we this came on our radar. and launched that the same year with legal assistance to the elderly. we will continue and when this is doing this is an attorney who is just focussed on working with people who have legal issues rolled health care access. it is a lot of things denial of coverage when insurance is denying and people are paying out of pocket for services. that they insurance should be covering. or when people are difficult positions where they are rationing the health care when it should be paying. i think what is interesting about this program they have established mou's to work with our long-term careom buds man program. so the ombudsman program isut there in language term care facilities in skills insing facility and assisted living a sillities. medicare counciling service. with these agencies knowing about each other it facilitates referrals between the

we know midwifery centers improve health outcomes. the statistics that christina mentioned at the beginning in terms of how the united states compares to other industrialized countries one of the main reasons is because arts district care is not centered around midwife care. the shepard counter act was an act in the early 1920s that was pushed by the american medical association their oldest and largest organization of physicians and essentially it was a campaign that advertised midwifery carl -- care with unhygienic and associated with worse outcomes. many of you may not know. most printing processes and deliveries around the world including in the united states were done by midwives or birth workers as we called them up until the turn-of-the-century. this a raised midwives in our country and made it more difficult for midwives to become certified to create the number of midwives because that process became more cumbersome and medicalized the process of giving birth. this christina mentioned transition to care people giving birth in

but they rely on health systems to treat — but they rely on health systems to treat non—disease markersal— systems. what cost to the physical and mental toll on health_ physical and mental toll on health care workers. what cost of those — health care workers. what cost of those who panel visit loved ones. — of those who panel visit loved ones, who had to shield, to those — ones, who had to shield, to those now— ones, who had to shield, to those now living with long covid~ _ those now living with long covid. what cost to the families of all those patients and health care workers who died? — and health care workers who died? , ., , , died? the inquiry went to spell out some _ died? the inquiry went to spell out some of— died? the inquiry went to spell out some of the _ died? the inquiry went to spell out some of the areas - died? the inquiry went to spell out some of the areas which i out some of the areas which will be considered, including this issue of ppe, where the right masks given at the right time to staff working on the front line with patient? she made the point hospital buildin

. >> this is the mental health health that blue shield is contracted to develop to - the behavorial healths that we provide we're doing it as part of the medical benefits and primary care when a patient is for complex than what we manage we work with blue shield m to get them access to a psychologist not potential it is taking too long to see a psychologist we'll tap into the medical benefits and make a psychiatrist available. so virtual psychology. >> so, i mean the biggest point i hear with the blue shield the availability i know a plus for a lot of providers the same thing but in memoriam of psychiatry can't see a psychiatrist and out-of-pocket all the time so, i mean you'll have a virtual psychologist from brown and toland to be able to get it initial consistency going. >> yes. we believe that is important to address the mental health issues. >> you're doing it through that not the behavorial health. >> that's correct. >> do you coordinate through the city and county of san francisco as well available practitioners within the city and county system? >> absolutely. >> we look at. >> wha

we know that mental health care is health care, in the face of an ongoing mental health and substancese, it's critical they are able to access mental and behavioral access virtually. this bill will ensure medicare beneficiaries will keep access to a range of qualified providers. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 7858 and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from washington is recognized. mrs. rodgers: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield five minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mr. james. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. james, is recognized. mr. james: thank you, mr. speaker. a special thank you to my chairwoman, friend, mentor, kathryn morris rodgers for her stellar leadership and for giving me a shot. this is one of the big reasons why i even ran for congress in the first place is to help people. and this bill with strong bipartisan support is going to take another step in helping everyday americans. i rise today to speak about my critical bill, h.r. 7858

the white house and a recognized leader in public health . she brings expertise in global health, prior to her current role she hoped pilot policies around the government including director of health security and bio defense on the national security council. in addition to her government service she has a leadership role that nongovernmental organizations and research institutions . we will have a quick q&aafter her remarks . [applause] >> hello everyone. sorry that i missed the morning but i know my colleague doctor paul was here and i got already a quick read out from him hopefully what we share will be complementary so i just ran here from the white house. okay. so thank you, thank you cbg. some of my favorite people in researchers parked at cbg and have been for a long time. i appreciate the policy relevant research that is happening here and appreciate this partnership with the university of chicago. congratulations to those who advance to this final round in the innovation challenge. okay. congratulations. so i want to share a little bi

was not a mental health problem.eing suicidal is not normal either. i just think god that there are people like this lady here that are doing something about it. i go out to the v.a., and i have been in groups and stuff. i appreciate everything that you folks are doing, c-span. thank you so much. guest: yeah, dylan, first, thank you for your service, and i am sorry that you have had to pay such a price throughout your life because of that service. we hear that so often from our veterans, these hidden wounds they have to deal with for decades. you know, i would say that somebody who has not been exposed to middle health or substance use in their life probably has somebody in their life who is struggling and they just do not know about it. one in two people will experience a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime. so i think it is fair to say that everyone listening here is or will have experience with a mental health condition, either personally or with a loved one, coworker, neighbor, somebody else t

proving -- improving public health is good politics, investing in american health pays out in better long-term outcomes. medicare for all promises to disengage the pursuit of profits from the delivery of healthcare. i asked you to work together to improve access and affordability to evolve health insurance and enhance value in healthcare. i have worked hard to reinvent myself with purpose. today, i am a physician and researcher on a mission to improve cancer care in america. to take the lessons that i learned from blood, sweat, and tears and turn it into a better future for the next patient that walks through my door. ultimately, the fear that i share with so many of my patients is that we will slip further into the abyss without action. we need to chart a path forward where a new diagnosis does not automatically mean that you will face financial ruin and so that no one else needs to make the difficult decision of life over life savings because at the end of the day, i can tell you that you can lose both. >> dr. chino, thank you. senator cassidy. >> it is my pleasure to introduce dr.

ifully physical health. i fully appreciate physical health. ifully appreciate that.em is built on three pillars, punishment, at deterrence, and the third is to rehabilitate. rehabilitate the offender to prevent this happening again. when the sentencing takes place, you need to think about those three key pillars and make sure that the punishment is proportionate and balance, for the victims, but also to take into account the position of huw edawrds as well. , , ., h, the position of huw edawrds as well. , , ., ., well. just reading some of the live reporting _ well. just reading some of the live reporting by _ well. just reading some of the live reporting by our— well. just reading some of the live reporting by our legal- live reporting by our legal affairs correspondent inside the courtroom. he hasjust affairs correspondent inside the courtroom. he has just said the courtroom. he has just said the defence's expert evidence is that edwards has a low risk of reoffending. his lawyer is challenging whether huw edawrds needs to be subjected to a restrictive sexual harm p

ill health.short-term — meaning. we need a ten year plan not a short—term set of decisions and we have the _ a short—term set of decisions and we have the mandate for change to carry this through. what has happened in the past _ this through. what has happened in the past is — this through. what has happened in the past is that we talk about change. _ the past is that we talk about change, sometimes step towards change _ change, sometimes step towards change and then back again. but not what i _ change and then back again. but not what i would talk about mission driven, — what i would talk about mission driven, this driving sense of purpose _ driven, this driving sense of purpose to get the nhs not just driven, this driving sense of purpose to get the nhs notjust on its feet— purpose to get the nhs notjust on its feet but fit for the future. what — its feet but fit for the future. what drives that is this sense of the future _ what drives that is this sense of the future. in the labour party, we

mission health centers for the advocacy of communities and for health and justice and everyone here today for their support in moving this project forward and as you can see on the outside on the corner were in the process of the building up the clinic and hope to open in the spring of 2025. we thank the city leaders to serve the circumstance and we thank you for prioritizing medical and detrimental we know an investment this is critical for the health of the community and future with that, i'm honored to introduce ra california a member resident here i hope someday will trust us to be her procedure of choice. >> good morning, everyone. >> i'm a little bit short i'm here honored to share any shire story with you grew up in lake view that is affordable housing with my grandparents here in san francisco i'm a san francisco native and some girls dream of marriage. and a white picked finances he dreamed of being independent air force a teenage mom i found a clear in civil services where among i helped housing. after nearly 12 years i moved back to california and started a successful business

the youth mental health crisis.hould note that his cochair, no one has ever been confused the politics of governor cox and governor murphy. together we took on seemingly intractable issues. but i will be clear-eyed about one thing -- even if we are successful in eliminate going at least one measure to the president's desk and seeing it become law, it will not mean the end of our efforts to address the youth mental health crisis. as with many things in this chamber, there will always be more work for us to do together. as i conclude my remarks, madam president, it is in this spirit, the spirit of bipartisan, of partnership, of collaboration for the greater good upon wish i which to land. i had no intention of ever seeking office. for me, once a starvings always a staffer. however, duty called to continue my service to the people of new jersey. i have had the privilege of working for two united states senators and the governor, all of whom embody the term public servant. i draw great inspiration from one of my most es

we all sat down with the information from eco- health on behalf of eco- health with the top officials. in fact we even uncovered an e-mail after the grant was reinstated after it was paused in 2020, doctor morris advocated for them to have their federal funding reinstated and assisted in receiving that funding provided with nonpublic information in order to help get the funding reinstated into then requested a kickback. joking about the kickback the entire process is wholly unacceptable and i wish that was the full extent of it, but it's not. frankly some of the documents received were difficult to read. i can't imagine saying some of the things, let alone putting them in writing. the select subcommittee uncovered communications in which it was unsuited for the public health service who received a taxpayer-funded paycheck. these are some of the unfortunate findings the select subcommittee has made during the investigation. it's very disturbing to the witnesses type of behavior from doctor fauci's senior advisor that the evidence is clear and overwhelming. it was unfortunately less pri

health agency only 17 of gauze. 36 hospitals, a partially functional, a primary health care and community level services have been frequently suspended. dr. so that is an emergency physician who is working in dallas at area of a c, a. he served as a medical school for a child who was evacuated to the united states. he told me earlier, the results of this report. shes sca everyone. the 1st these are very conservative estimates. they're doing so in a way to let you know that there is something urgent happening here. a quarter of the more than 90000 people have been injured will require care for the rest of their lives. but that number is likely to be astronomical. the higher their using conservative estimates, and this is something that should scare everyone. and what kind of injuries are we talking about here when they say life altering i just want to kind of paint the picture of the 3 most common injuries here. you mentioned spinal cord and brain injuries. these are people who need round the clock care. these are people who need to be at least checked once or twice a day. we want to make

he said prevention of ill-health is important. it . of ill—health is important.th changes already announced by the conservatives to cut advertising over unhealthy foods before the watershed, 9pm, so that nobody could see that sort of advertising, measures to cut back that sort of advertising, measures to cutback on the sale of unhealthy foods in supermarkets and big retailers. that immediately generated criticisms about the nanny state from some quarters, saying this is an intervention to far. i have he has made it clear that prevention measures will be an important part of it. he said that if we don't do measures, he wasn't specific about what they would be. if we don't do measures to make the country healthy, the nhs could be bankrupted and overwhelmed bankru pted and overwhelmed because bankrupted and overwhelmed because of this year scale of the number of patients. thank ou ve the number of patients. thank you very much- _ you very much. it is been branded on conservative and on british. speaking to the bbc�*s animal rajan, he said the plan was odious. it is