there are many things where health care is a little behind the times. when it comes to diversity, i would give it a pretty good rating.they try to do a good job with it. from a care perspective, we can go through diversity in a number of different ways. we can take steps to address cultural diversity training, we look at diversity when it comes to our recruiting properties as well. we haven't spoken much about gender diversity but that's something that's pretty orton to us as well. we work with clinical professionals, nurses and what have you and as robin mention, the majority of them is women. on the facilities side, we work with chief nursing officers, finance leaders, staffing managers, unit managers, hr leaders in a big portion of them happened to be women as well. even if it weren't the right thing for us to do which it is it's a critical imperative for us to be very represented from a gender perspective and from other diversity perspectives within our ranks. we actively work toward this. the direction come from our leadership team. one of our schoo

i mean, honestly it's, you know, it's a challenge and health care and i'm sure that the other panelist can speak to this . we were taught to put ourselves 2nd. we're taught to de, prioritize our personal and mental health and prioritize our colleagues that our patients and i understand that. but at this point many health care workers are saying, i'm enough of that. i'm not, i am not putting myself 2nd, my family matters. i, i remember, you know, in the beginning of the pan demik, many physicians at that point were making wills and were talking to other family members about who would care for their children if they died. because the fear of walking into the hospital and dying was a very real reality for most frontline workers. and now as a psychiatrist, i'm a child and adult psychiatrist. so i see the physicians in the health care workers, and i also see their children. and that fear is coming back that, that anticipatory anxiety before they walk into work, the nausea, the headache, the physical symptoms all about is coming back because of the profound helplessness that comes with treat

-- health care providers? >> companies should have a way to speak to health providers so that they have the latest possible data. health care are truly busy. they can keep up with the information that happens every day. -- and they can no keep up -- they cannot keep up with all of the information that happens every day. they have quite a number of questions they are getting from their patients and mothers and fathers. this would help them more quickly answer those questions. if they could have a systematic interaction with companies on the approved information. >> as a parent of children in the 13-16 age bracket, i might want to know, which vaccine do you think is better for my child? with his background? an answer to the question that the charwoman asked, what are we missing, i recently introduced a bill. hr 3705 that would allow vaccine sponsors who have received -- to communicate with companies without fear of violating a law. you think something along those lines would be helpful for producers of the vaccin

health care, i'm a physician, health care is and should be a national priority. i'm encouraged to hear you talk about finding the origins of covid and identifying it. i served on our board of health in cincinnati and you're exactly right. we can't address these issues if we can't get to the bottom. >> and going to the border quickly, when i visited back in april we saw many coming in with scabies, meningitis, chicken pox, of course covid-19. i think this is a very serious concern that we have for america with this coming in. i do want to work with you, and i'm encouraged by your concern, but let's work towards a healthy, legal immigration policy that's best for everyone. i want to go next to drug pricing and we need to address the cost of drugs in the united states. it's important for our patients and i think there's bipartisan room here and i believe that foreign price controls will not be for the next set of cures. so we have that balance between innovation and costs at the end of the day. let's lead the world on both those things. and another thing we can work

we are going to start on distrust with the health-care system. we want to talk what is going on with the hospitals and the burden they are under. of course, caroline, you brought this up earlier about some of the insurance issues. if those folks decide not to get vaccinated, what happens when they get covid and go to the hospital? does insurance cover it? caroline: that is a key question to ask. the point that they feel that will perhaps be the biggest wave , the vaccine mandates, and other things vaccines potentially bring to bear. it hasn't been the campaign to save your grandparents or the health risks for those around you. perhaps it might be the financial burden if you don't get vaccinated. taylor: some really cool charts that i know we are going to bring up here on if the fda approval moved the needle. a conversation we have been having a lot on this program. on vaccinated only say 31% more likely. 49%, wait and see. there was a certain cohort with legitimate medical issues one at the full fda approval. certainly looks like it does move the

. >> for me it would be health care. because one of the things they discovered that writingca this book is that there are massive inequities in terms of health care coverage between communities of color than the rest of the country. it is unequal and on equally divided. i live in the county where we have a plethora of really good hospitals, but if you go to the southside of chicago, we are struggling to keep hospitals open. so click okay, how do we have a plan so that w everybody gets really decent basic health care. i don't know if that is a national health care system or medicare for all, but we need to come up with something. the covid-19 crisis exposed these inequities. and it's horrible because some don't have access to health care or they didn't go to the hospital because they could not pay for it. so this is part of my social infrastructure argument and i think that lincoln would have embraced it. even going as far as invoking equal treatment clause saying hey, at least in this country we should treat everybody wi

cms is working on health care. how do you see an agenda around addressing the social factors within cms? how do you see it as relating to other elements of hhs? so we are not sort of just saying health systems, health care providers, you figure out how to meet these social needs. instead we are saying, we have resources across these various programs designed to meet them. let's work together to meet a person or family where they are. >> one of the great things about our incoming administration is just how interested we all are in working together. and we have already been actively engaged. the department and cms, about trying to think about how to integrate care across her programs. social determinants of health is a -- is an issue we are focused on. integrating behavioral health. looking at maternal health. these are areas of shared focus. i like to say the financing world, cms, we don't always speak the same language as the public health world. the joy of meeting with several states in a closed-door session, who w

, new statewide health orders, california imposing first in the nation, vaccine mandate for all health care workers. kpix5 is live from san francisco general hospital with some reaction to those orders, andrea? >> reporter: we have seen piecemeal orders come down from individual employees, sutter health, the uc system, kaiser, other ones all come down in the past week or so, this is the only brood overarching order that effects all health care workers in california. >> reporter: state health care workers now have a deadline to get jabbed with two doses of the vaccine. september 30th. that order came down today from the california department of public health. applies to workers at all hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other health care facilities. >> many of the large health care systems have done this including ucsf and others, kaiser did it a few days ago but it is appropriate for all health care workers in the state to be vaccinated and should not be coming near vulnerable patients unless they are. >> reporter: the order coming down from the state department of health and not a pr

vaccinations for their health care workers. just this week, more than 30 health care employers, including kaiser permanente, one of the country's largest, announced vaccination for health care workers. so america's businesses, large and small, universities and medical schools, and many other institutions are stepping up on vaccination requirements. and our message is quite simple, we support these vaccination requirements to protect workers, communities, and the country. as we double down on getting more americans vaccinated, we are also stepping up our work to help states experiencing rising cases due to the delta variant, our covid-19 response teams are working with 16 states to address their specific needs. we have deployed hundreds of personnel to address a range of needs, from increased testing, to getting shots in arms to mobile vaccination clinics, to encouraging more physicians to use antibody treatments, to helping states address hospital capacity issues. let me close with this -- from the beginning, we have known that

only 75% of health care workers in new york have been faxed. again, health care workers.stion remains, why is that? and we hope that many more, not just becky paul, will come on the show and explain themselves, calmly. nonpolitically. because it's a real question. they are already calling tonight with thousands of afghan refugees into the united states. thousands of american citizens are still trapped in kabul. a much smaller concern, the geniuses who got us there in the first place. in fact, all of washington on the bipartisan level tells you very much. we look at the latest for you after the break. ♪ ♪ - [narrator] it's a mixed up world. and the way we work looks a little different. but whether you embrace the new normal or just want to get back to the routines that feel right, x-chair continues to be at the forefront of change, which is why we've launched the all new x-chair with elemax. elemax combines gentle body temperature regulation with stress melting massage to increase your comfort working from home or at the office. feel more refreshed in seconds with dual fan

we wanted to take a look at the state of the health care sector in the united states. in recent years, there has been somewhat of a movement in what is known as value based. hi, mary care. and just this week, several companies in the field released earnings with varied results. oak street health, which plans to add as many as $42.00 centers this year has seen its stock fall nearly 20 percent this week and it posted a net loss of just over $100000000.00 in the 2nd quarter. despite revenue being up 65 percent year over year, the ceo company says that there were several factors that contributed to higher costs, including a jump in the number of coven hospitalizations. there is also clover health, a one time mean stock which saw its price jump nearly 10 percent since reporting thursday morning. boasting a 126 percent increase in patient year over year, but also saw significant net loss of $317000000.00. again, despite revenue jumping nearly 140000000 for the quarter year over year. and then there's can health, which also reported thursday, seeing it stock price jump 10 perc

let me start o by aski you about the enormous business on health care --mphasis health care his countryeven in the corporate media because the pandemic. yet there is very littl talk about medicare for all, an issue yohave dedicatedour life to. can you talk about why you have dedicated yourself to this issue? >> thank you for your career of leadership. only a truly radical departure from our exploitative for-profit model to one that guarantees health care is a right for all jewish we no longer live in a nation where people go bankrupt on account of their medical bills. take this last your is a prime example. disproportionately. death rates of black, indigenous, latinx were twice of the white counterpart. millions lost their jobs. as a result, their health insurance. hospitals that primarily serve medicaid patients shut down my prioritizing profits over people. meanwhile, private insurers saw their profits doubled because americans delete much-needed care, a system that profits often and people for going medical care is a system beyond repa. we need medicare for all. amy: what gives you t

ago but it is appropriate for all health care workers in the state to be vaccinated and should not being near vulnerable patients unless they are. >> reporter: the order coming down from the state department of health and not a private employer eliminates one key challenge according to the professor. >> employer may have to negotiate with a union, the state does not have to. they are not the direct employer. >> reporter: the nurses association issued this statement. we strongly believe all eligible people should be vaccinated while respecting the need for medical and religious accommodations. the order does allow exceptions. >> the state allows people who are exempt to continue working as long as they get tested and wear masks. so, accommodation is you don't have to vaccinate but you have to test and wear a mask. yes, it is perfectly legal. >> reporter: the chair of the ucsf department of medicine says it is time. >> i am all in favor of it from the very beginning it has been appropriate for health care worker who's take an oath to do no harm, at least the doctors do, to keep themselv

health care system. join the discussion with your phone calls to my facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. -- phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. washington journal is next. ♪ host: the evacuation, the rescue of americans and afghans from kabul's airport becomes more fast-paced but perilous by the day with the u.s. military going thousands out daily and president biden announcing some commercial airlines will join in moving evacuees and refugees around the world. the president's deadline for u.s. troop withdrawal is august 30 first, next tuesday. it is monday, august 23. we will spend this first hour here on the program playing some of the news briefing yesterday by the president, some of his comments, and hearing from you and your confidence in the biden administration -- on your confidence in the biden administration's afghanistan policy. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents and others, (202) 748-8002. afghan war vets, (202) 748-8003. you ca

and there's certainly a conversation that we could have about this involving universal health care. but unfortunately, rick, we are out of time. in this particular segment, we'll have you back to talk about it. yeah, yeah, but it's a good segment because it's true value care seems to be kind of where medicine is going in the future. are rick sanchez? thank you. thanks, the and finally now has its site set on an asteroid that could be worth could really and of dollars and precious metals. but they say their plan is just to study the object that is located between the orbit of mars and jupiter. psyche 16 was discovered back in 2019, and nasa is planning a mission to explore up close next year. now if you're also wondering why they are planning on mining the asteroid just yet, well, that's because some estimates is the value of its gold is so massive. it would make everyone in the earth a billionaire while also destroying commodity prices and possibly leading to the collapse of the world economy as we know it. and another news, nasa now says they have a better understanding of an astero

only 75% of health care workers in new york have been vaxed. again, health care workers.stion remains, why is that? and we hope that many more, not just becky paul, will come on the show and explain themselves, calmly. nonpolitically. because it's a real question. and that we should have the answer before the rest of us are forced to do something we don't want to do. they are already calling tonight with thousands of afghan refugees into the united statest thousands of american citizens are still trapped in kabul. an issue that seems a much smaller concern, the geniuses who got us there in the first place. in fact, all of washington on the bipartisan level tells you very much.ti we look at the latest for youu after the break. ♪ ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have one hundred thousand dollars or more of life insurance you may qualify t

plus health care workers rally at the state capitol to protest the new vaccine mandate. why some of them disagree with the decision to require vaccines for health care workers. and ballots already being sent to voters. governor newsom campaigns in the bay area hear his message that he has are you. >> well, welcome back to the kron 4 morning news. the time for you now is 4.12 and we've been talking about the heat and how thankfully my job is telling us all. yesterday. today is going to be a major improvement from the hot conditions of monday. good morning, john. yeah, pretty nice improvement out there right now for sure. we're going to be looking at conditions today. that will be very nice for inland spots considering you are in the upper 90's to low triple digits yesterday. >> some upper 80's to low 90's doesn't sound all that bad today. a look outside right now at the embarcadero, including the bay bridge and the flag. it's blowing a little bit and that breeze that we do have steadily moving across the region this morning, this westerly wind has actually resulted in a b

over 350 ent -- tnt's, doctors, and health care personnel have been providing emergency medical care on the ground in the gulf states of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. since july, we have sent ventilators, therapeutics, and ambulances to support the strained health care system in these states is they response to delta. our personnel remained on the ground as rick and ida made landfall and are mobilized in the aftermath of the storm. we are providing critical clinical care, conducting patient movements to relieve the strain in hospitals, and continuing treatment for covid-19 patients. at the same time, our whole of government effort to respond to help states with delta outbreaks continues. today, covid-19 serge response teams are working with 18 states , pulling in personnel, resources, supplies, and expertise from across the federal government, including from hhs, cdc, fema, dod, and the da to address states 'specific needs. we have sent critical supplies to health systems, expanded testing capacity, and expanded the use of lifesaving therapeutics. in the month of august, we sh

health care. the top three segments that are looking a little bit more expensive, and we are seeing price pressure, is health care and potentially the online space is where regulators are hitting them. they are saying that is pretty obvious where the next kind of salvo or next target will be. it is the tech space once again, online tech, here you go. i think this is the session low that we have seen, and tencent, at least tencent is back in positive territory. alibaba at fresh new record lows after they hit that record yesterday. and this is on the back of the earnings story as well for this tech stock, and it is a bloodbath out there. david: this is a graph we have been tracking, kind of stabilizing in the early days of august. where we are now is exactly the drawdown from the peak asia tech index. we have now exceeded 45%. on the broader point, let's change this up and look at what this week has been. normally, you get the u.s. outperforming, europe, emerging markets, another rotation within tha

murthy: i am incredibly worried about our health care system and our health care workers. even before the pandemic began. doctors and nurses are struggling with a very high rate burn out in the medical profession. and up very high rate of suicide as well. and covid is like a hurricane then can covid. that comes and hits you installs and since over you and continues to dump rain on you. that is how many doctors and workers in the health care profession felt. the pandemic was the first wave, and then there was a summer wave, and then a winter wave, and now the delta wave. putting all this together, what we have seen is that they are working as much as they can. doctors and other health care personnel are running out of gas, running on fumes. that worries me for many reasons. they matter. they have been our heroes in the larger covid response, and we need to take care of them the way they have taken care of us. but it also worries me, because we need health care workers not just to take care of those who make it covid, in the days and weeks and months ahead but also , to take

we are in health care. we should be maintaining how and we shouldn't be putting our patients at risk. and even though the risk of transmitting covert from health care worker to a patient is low, it's not 0. there are strict exemptions or religious or medical reasons, but in general, health care workers are now required to practice what they preach about 70 percent of us adults, or at least partly vaccinated recovered 19. it's 60 percent if you include the children under 12 who are not eligible for health care workers. the numbers are similar though at rush they've now reached 85 percent. were trying to decrease transmission of the delta variance. so you come here and everybody's vaccinated. done. you're less likely to leave with the virus rushed and the vanguard of a growing movement. nearly 15000 hospitals about one in 4 across the us, now require staffers to get the coven vaccine, according to the american hospital association, and states like new york, california and washington have issued vaccine mandat

health care personnel and all hhs health care personnel must now be fully vaccinated. state and local governments, health care systems, businesses small and large, universities, and other institutions are also stepping up. since last week, washington state, washington, d.c., and seattle have all adopted vaccination requirements. in more than 50 health systems across the country, they have announced all staff need to be vaccinated, bringing the total to more than 200 health systems. in the past 24 hours, amtrak, mcdonald's, nbc-universal, discovery, and capital one all announced new rules that workers must be vaccinated to return to the office. california announced all school teachers and staff in the state be required to be vaccinated or tested weekly. and the nea and aft, two of the largest unions in the country representing 5 million educators and school staff both came out in favor of school districts persimmon covid-19 vaccination policies, including requirements for teachers and staff. across the country, nearly 700 colleges and universities have announced vaccina

you don't have that in any aspect of health care. health care is not like any other market economy.e cannot let pharmaceutical companies get away with it. companies do not -- individual patients do not choose their pharmaceutical. their doctors do. so a patient is not a customer like a typical customer who makes a decision and evaluates all trade-offs. patients don't have that ability. that is my answer. thank you. host: let's go to james, calling from aberdeen, south dakota. james, good morning. caller: good morning. yes. i have to disagree with him. that sounds more like a socialist government. this is a capitalist republican constitution and that's what this country is built on, and if you take all the clinics and everything else that built themselves fairly, i would trust them more than the government trying to solve my problems. host: james, a lot of people we will probably hear from this morning will say we need these drugs to survive and we cannot afford them. the government could step in -- government should step in because this is a life or death situation. your response? c

it's 60 percent if you include the children under 12 who are not eligible for health care workers. the numbers are similar though at rush they've now reached 85 percent. were trying to decrease transmission of the delta variance. so you come here and everybody's vaccinated. done. you're less likely to leave with the virus rushed and the vanguard of a growing movement. nearly 15000 hospitals about one in 4 across the us, now require staffers to get the coven vaccine, according to the american hospital association, and states like new york, california and washington is issued vaccine mandates for health care workers like it or not. vaccine mandates work. since chicago began requiring a vaccination or a negative test to attend most concert, more people who got vaccinated and since plans begin requiring a similar health, fast food and bars, restaurants and most indoor venues, millions more people signed up to get the shot. and that's crucial to reach the kind of heard immunity that there's new variance from popping up. still some are saying, no, we're not elation. and there have been p

and there have been protests across the country by thousands of vaccine wary health care workers. you have every right now to get vaccinated, we're not gonna force you to get vaccinated, but you may have to find another place to work. that's exactly what happened to workers that are w. j. born of his health in new jersey, which recently fired half a dozen senior employees for refusing to get vaccinated with more companies in and out of health care, requiring the vaccine to enter the office doors each day. that leaves anti vaccines with increasingly few options. john henry and al jazeera chicago, britain's most senior police officers says to take these will be reviewing races allegations made against britain's prince andrew. he's being sued in the us by virginia defray, who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17. jeffrey says she was trafficked by the light convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. from all on the story we have need back a live for us in london. hello the nave. what more did the police chief have to say about the civil case? of the day? my senior police offi

and you've got a lot of ptsd by the way one last point on the health care workers. that's the tip of the iceberg. these are also the people who often have the least access to therapy. so we've got all these people out of there who've been in the trenches the entire time, never had a break, suffering a lot of trauma, and there are no services available for them. >> lastly, let's talk about management. with varying attitudes towards the lifting of restrictions, there may be some struggles in the work place. how would you advise management to ease the transition? >> management can encourage vaccination or require it. they can keep masks, physical distance, hand washing, all of these things. and hopefully management will be responsive. i think, you know, given the title that the series, this is all new. we're all just moving in to a whole new phase. we haven't begun to see the research that's going to come out of what we've just been through. we've been through a terrible pandemic. there's been a huge toll and i don't think we've seen the tip of the iceberg on the impac

caller: i do believe in a vaccine mandate, especially in the health care system. i am a retired nurse and i know i would not feel comfortable if i did not know for sure that the employees in the hospital or health care system had a vaccine. until we mandate this we are not going to get this under control. we are going to have to live with this. i am the type of person that if i go into the health care care system i want to feel safe. host: what has the governor of your state said about mandates? caller: her hands are tied because the state legislator passed where she cannot do anything at this point, so she won't do anything. the private companies, i think ascension is requiring all of their employees to have a vaccine, which i think is great. again, i wouldn't feel comfortable going into a health care system unless i knew every person was vaccinated. host: next up on the line for supporting neither. alabama, good morning, roger. caller: good morning. yes, i've had the vaccine, but i would not have taken it if i had known they had used fetus cells. i believe that

and there have been protests across the country by thousands of vaccine wary health care workers. you have every right now to get vaccinated, we're not gonna force you to get vaccinated, but you may have to find another place to work. that's exactly what happened to workers that are w j born of his health in new jersey, which recently fired half a dozen senior employees for refusing to get vaccinated with more companies in and out of health care. requiring the vaccine to enter the office doors each day. that leaves anti vaccines with increasingly few options. john henry and al jazeera chicago ah headlines on al jazeera, the sour. the taliban is edging closer to the capital capital and its sweeping advance. the arm group is on the verge of capturing yet another city. this time it's got me. if confirmed it would mean the taliban will have taken 10 provincial capitals in the past week. rob mcbride has more from couple and the city got.

, especially pharmacies and health care providers. vertical integration can result in inefficiency and consumer benefits. however, such integration can also lead to higher barriers for competition in each individual market. onerous audits, clawback provisions, and patient steering are anti-competitive behaviors by the pbm's. some of you have referenced today -- you know that is taking place. they have caused small pharmacy business owners to struggle to survive. in recent years, 40 states, including my home state of tennessee, have enacted legislation to curb some of these pbm practices. states have also taken action against the script pricing activities of pbm. it could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions in the medicaid program. i do believe it is time for congress to understand the impact of potentially anti-competitive pbm practices on patients, small pharmacy businesses, and taxpayers, and senator braun and i have introduced the pharmacy benefit manager accountability act. i encourage all of my colleagues on supporting this legis

but that's the type of health care that their health care and mental health care. danny will receive an imprison. well, as julian his arms, he goes on being tortured according to the un. daniel. as david contrast, the former head of the ca leaked secret for his book to his love over it. he didn't go to jail. do you think that the reason we're not getting more whistleblowers recently from the intelligent service? i mean, just look at what's happening in afghanistan, the disaster that's happening there. we don't seem to get any until leaks, which was, is because people like you, daniel hale, jolene, it's kerry ku junk area. the jailing, the working, the deterring truth. tell us why they're using the espionage act as a hammer, as the biggest threat that they can come up with to use against, with a lower, anyone interested in standing up against government, wrong doing the message they can you just send the same message? this is what you will face, not many actually go to trial and put the government to task on that because they use that as such a threat. and maybe tha

there are health care services that deliver care and require their to be vaccinated. but there are number of businesses that will feel more comfortable about this if they get full approval. some of those businesses may feel beholden to take that step. there's been a lot of discussion about should you put those inquired -- requirement in place or not. i think those requirements will only increase in places. when i talk to lawyers, in particular, about want to consider for bring people back to the workplace or how to think about how to create a safer environment for the workers. they are thinking about how my workplace is as safe as possible. i need to make sure my workers feel comfortable coming back to work and know that we are going to protect them. i think about my client or customer coming into the office, that they also feel that this is going to be a safe place for them to come and engage with our services. for all those reasons, i think the vaccine requirements make a lot of sense. businesses should concert up with them in place, because it does reduce the risk

but can the local health care can afford to do it at all? they simply, many people now say that they want to leave their work and not only in home, you know, if you have a closer look at what's happening now, you will see that some specialists refused to comply with the vaccination order and say, whatever i love my job, i choose to work as an independent specialist, so i stopped working all across the country around 61 percent of people polled said that they were in favor of mandatory vaccinations. however, firefighters union have said that should this rule go through on thursday, should it be approved by the constitutional counsel, then come monday, they will be on strike. what benefit you most? the issue at stake is the adoption of a wide range of restrictive measures in relation to our profession. and now with the rise in question of obligatory vaccination suffices to health minister has an am. so it is in a sense not under the pretext that they are ambulance employees. we have always insisted that we should not be considered as ambulance

book, overcharged, why americans pay too much for health care.op and turn it over to dr. anderson who can tell me why i'm wrong. [laughter] >> well, thank you. it's nice to be with you and it is a very distinguished book by a very distinguished authors and i'll try in this presentation to highlight where i had disagreements and where there are potential agreements that we share as well. so, let me get my screen up for you. take a second. okay, so this is major work by exceptionally well-credentialed individuals and there are serious problems with the analysis. the book title presumes the wrong predicate. the texas tort reforms were extremely effective and did exactly what they were designed to do. the reames of data that were suggested to statistical analyses by the authors and their colleagues basically leave us with the conclusion that the earth is flat. the data, in fact, do not comport with the real world and specifically the texas professional liability environment before and after the tort reforms of 2003. let's say where we can find common

we need to expand health care. and medicare -- so that elderly people have dental care, eyeglasses, and hearing aids. we need to lower the cost of prescription drugs and have medicare negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry. we need to make sure that we get doctors and nurses and dentists into underserved areas. so, madam president, tomorrow begins one of the very important debates that we have ever had, and the question is not complicated. do we have the courage to stand up to powerful special interests and tell the corporate world and the one percent, yeah, you are finally going to have to pay your fair share of taxes so that we can create millions of good-paying jobs for working families, so we can protect our children, protect the elderly, and address the threat of climate change? that is the issue. and i have absolute confidence that we will in fact rise to the occasion and do what the american people want, and that we will pass the budget resolution tomorrow. and with that, a madam president, i yield

and there have been protests across the country by thousands of vaccine wary health care workers. you have every right not to get vaccinated, we're not gonna force you to get vaccinated, but you may have to find another place to work. that's exactly what happened to workers. it r w j born of his health in new jersey, which recently fired half a dozen senior employees for refusing to get vaccinated with more companies in and out of health care requiring the vaccine to enter the office doors each day. that leaves anti vaccines with increasingly few options. john henry and al jazeera chicago. israel is imposing new chrome virus restrictions. they include elemental mass gatherings and implementing digital vaccine passports. the new measures were approved due to a recent, spanking new infection sealed by the more infectious delta variant. the health ministry reported more than 5700 new cases in the past 24 hours the highest since february. the mexico has reported close 223000 new current virus case. the wednesday it's pushed the total number of cases past 3000000. since the pandemic be