they make it easy for people to access high-quality affordable health care and controls for health care consumers in employer-sponsored health plans. it's not a standard health plan with their service to and meet the health care journey for 4 million members an easy one. we help make their existing medical plan easier to understand and use. a platform is personalized for each member guiding them to care. we offer access to on-demand care teams and connect an ecosystem with the virtual care solutions. or affiliated virtual clinic provides chat of video-based telemedicine visits for wide spectrum of primary care needs. in significant dan demand we use ai controls to improve the experience for members for reducing the administered a burden on clinicians. when a patient comes the virtual clinic in ai system begins to gather information from them about the reason for their visit so by the time the clinician sees the patient they have a detailed summary of the patients history but they can spend their time discussing the treatment decisions and follow-up care with the patient. ai is helping t

we should be expanding access to health care, including reproductive health care, rather than maskingcies that actually endanger a person's health. but even further, we should be up front with the american people. isn't that the bare minimum? let me be clear. the right to choose is fundamental. working to strip that right should never be a priority. but especially days before a possible government shutdown that would have devastating impacts on hardworking families. i implore my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to stands with me, to deliver a powerful message. one that the american people absolutely need to hear. your ability to decide what is best for you, your body, your family, and your future, is inherently your choice. now and always. for this reason, at the appropriate time, i'm going to offer a motion to recommit this bill back to if the house rules permitted, i would have offered the motion with an important amendment that would ensure that taxpayer dollars can be cannot -- cannot be allocated to centers thatut the health of a woman at risk. i ask unanimous consent to i

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health care system. they talk about health care affordability, innovation, prescription drug prices, and the need to increase accessibility. this is from the milken institute future of health summit in washington, d.c. >> welcome to the milken institute future of health summit. we are delighted to have you join us and look forward to your participation over the next few days. please welcome executive vice president of health, esther profa. >> good morning and welcome to the 2023 future of health summit. whether you are here in the realm or watching online, we are delighted to have you join us. gathered are hundreds of leaders from across the health sector, representing governmt, philanthropy, care delivery, academia, research, the investment community, and more. we come together because we recognize we can do more together to achieve better health for patients than we can do alone. i have engaged with many of you across our work at milken institute throughout the year, and what i have found to be the com

for health care, and the cost of health care. and so the inflationary reduction act, medicare drug price negotiation program, is in full implementation. what milestones have bee achieved? how do you balance the needs of pharmaceutical companies and industries? being able to innovate and patients being able to afford lifesaving and life-ving medicaons? sec. becerra: my pents had the wisdomf naming me xavier becerra with an x. i have had to go throughife explaing that the x is pronounced like an h. to t question, i learned long time ago to do what we could to rede costs. not only because in my family we did not have a lot of money so we had to make ends meet my mom would always really pounded tos, better to prevent then remedte. in health re is absolutely the case. unfortunately we have a system of health care that is focused on tearing, -- on curing, treating disease, rather than trying to prote wellness from the beginning. what we are trying to do is get to the point of wellness before treatingllness. part of that meansaking sure

the guidance is that if a health care worker suspects there has been a late abortion, they should notce, take blood tests or other examples for police, and where women agrees to information being shared with the police, the health care worker should ensure that women have not been pressurised to do that. the reason is guidelines have been published by the royal college and others is because there has been big concern amongst doctors, health care workers about a sharp rise in the numbers of women who have been investigated by police in the 160 years since the abortion act, and only three women were ever convicted of having a late abortion. but since 2022, six women have found themselves in court being prosecuted, dozens more have been investigated by police, often for taking an abortion type pill, triggering a late abortion. what they are concerned about is that often it is health care workers they believe who are reporting these women to the police. in one instance, it was after an emergency cesarean in hospital that the police were called. they say that these are exceptionally red ca

the story behind the new we own about unbiased information for free might do to name these young health care workers are learning german albania. they're hoping to go and work in germany and german hospitals and care homes are keen to recruit them. good morning, flower schneider. my name's etiquette and i'm and i was looking off to you today. the shame of my career is my biggest dream. i hope i'll get lots of opportunities to specialize on you specifically but how mania has a shortage of health care workers, especially in rural areas. hardly anyone wants to stay and work under difficult conditions for low wages. sort of down for some of the main problem is the big distance from door to door. that takes 2 to 3 hours just to get to the next patient . the orders use 3 or nothing less for the fact that so many young people are leaving is a major problem. the elderly in particular, depend on regular care. the the, it's the start of a long day test player to high end. his wife are packing food. he can take with him, the nurse will be on the go for up to 10 hours, looking after his patients. he won

morgan health care? they bring all the players here to this wonderful city of san francisco. i think the critical thing all of us are talking about is, what are the big problems and what are the solutions? obviously, we focus on three broad areas in health care. one, we believe on health care, the payment system has to move toward being outcome driven versus for services only. the industry calls this the value-based approach of health care. number two, we believe the infrastructure of health care right now is being powered from a technology point of view for episodic care and for billing. need to move to where it is more holistic care or longer care things to new technologies like generative ai, in the future, we can move toward more intelligent care, so we can provide excellent care for every human being on the planet. number three, from a biology point of year, -- point of view, we believe biology is not terribly well understood. so approaches as a way to decode technology, so we can build drugs with f

to quality health care for our people. eeping us safe during the global pandemic to caring for those affected by historic natural disasters, our health-care heroes have more than proven their worth these past four years. and in that time, we've seen some amazing progress. we protected health care access for nearly 100,000 kentuckians by removing governmental roadblocks. we relaunched and expanded the state insurance marketplace called kynect. we expanded medicaid coverage for new moms; we we boosted our workforce by adding dental, vision and hearing coverage; we capped the cost of insulin; and we've invested in our hospital systems across the state. one important step was securing the first hospital in west louisville in 150 years. [applause] gov. beshear: see, we cannot move forward together until all of our people have access to quality, affordable health care in their own community. no one should have to drive two hours or take multiple busses just to see their doctor. that's something corenza townsend recognized in her

host: julie rovner joins us, from kff health news, to talk about the latest enrollment under the affordable care. a little clarification, i made kff health news, explain what that is. guest: kaiser health news is now kff health news. host: my apologies. over 20 million people signi up for the affordable care act, why is that number significant? guest: it is up 5 million from the previous year. the largest nber ever to eopen e closed in a handful of states. if you live in california or new york or new or connecticut, you still have a day or two to sign up. yeah, this was a big surprising number. host as far as the reasons why, how would you describe that? guest: a number of reasons. probably the biggest reason is that in 2021, congress expanded the subsidies for people who were buying their own insurance on the marketplaces. the subsidies go much higher in income, over $100,000 for a family of four. for lower income, subsidies are more generous and you can get most people under 150% of poverty can get a zero premium plan with a low deductible. the insurance itself is much more attractive. th bide

care. they likely require more health services. while these services could overlay al services much like they would if the person was needing -- if the person needing care was at home, these are not provided directly by the al community. the haphazard growth of this model and the tensions between social care and health care inherent have spurred calls by scholars for assisted living to be reimagined. most al residents need help with medication and more than half need help with three or more activities of daily living. al residents depend on their care networks. the constellation involved in residents lives to arrange medical care, to provide social support, to coordinate care, to engage residents in activities, and bring needed supplies. these care workers also play an important role in advocating for residents and negotiating care with staff. about 42% of al residents have a dementia diagnosis but we can assume this is underreported as many older adults are not screened, tested, or diagnosed with dementia despite showing symptoms i

he says, let people cash in their iras without penalty to pay for education or health care costs. it sounds, doesn't it? we won't punish you if you have to give up your savings to educate your children or take care of your parents. we won't punish you. we'll change the law so we won't just put you on your knees when you have to take your life savings away to educate your kids or take care of your parents. i say we ought to give incentives. the american, to educate their kids and take care of their parents without having to take their life savings away. and that's the kind of program i've offered. underst stand soms i think that all of us don't understand. this is. a big, big problem. we have been losing our growth rates to other countries for more than a decade. you can't play around with this. we've got to have world class, world class health care, a world class economic program. so those who think we have to sacrifice our environment? my answer is this if you have nationally strong environmental policies, it is good economics, not bad economics. this fellow thinks we ought to wea

and coercive tactics to prevent people from accessing a full range of appropriate reproductive health carecare ann benign, pro-family rhetoric, these pregnancy centers distribute diapers and formula in order to disguise their underlying anti-abortion mission. e great dangers of these crisis pregnancy centers is they present themselves as legitimate health care facilities but the reality is that most are unlicensed, unstaffed by medical professionals, and unbound by the privacy laws that govern medical providers. this has led to women being misled and given inaccurate or even dangerous information about their pregnancies, and the options for care that are available to them. including women who have suffered life-threatening, undiagnosed complications in their pregnancies, women who have been denied the information and opportunity toq# access appropriate reproductive health care for them, and women who have been encouraged to undertake dangerous and medically contra-indicated procedures. there's strong evidence that many pregnancy centers are using the public money that states allocate to th

so from my perspective, we are in health care today. ce that i am super intrigued to leverage this platform is health services. it's taking those engagement touch points, that we have and the trust that our brand has, the walgreens pharmacist calls and says, hey, your health plan would cover a shot for you, would you like to come in the store to get it? your 45 more times to go in a store to get it rather than if your insurance company tells you to do that. that's one little example of a way that we can leverage the platform and the trust to meaningfully help others that are in the ecosystem achieve their goals. >> reporter: this is classic, we are here to -- i'm talking about the gop on the obesity drugs. i'm hearing people playing a role, in walgreens. but that's probably wrong, this could be your sweet spot. >>> absolutely, and again that's an example of a product of where we see now, and i'm sure the pharma companies that have innovated those products see, very difficult to keep the patients on those projects over a long period of ti

we're also expanding what are called critical health care access points for those with mental health services. 24 seven critical access care that wasn't available before. but what we need to do is change this framework where too many insurers, too many providers don't treat mental health at par with what we consider regular health. you can go in and get your your child's arm mended. if they if he or she breaks it, you can go in for your cold. you can do all those things that we're so accustomed to, but go to your primary care physician and ask or him what to do about mental health. and they'll probably say, i'm going to have to refer you to a specialist, because i didn't i didn't get trained in that. and that's one of the problems is we don't train to be able to preventatively start dealing with mental health and we're trying to change that. i mean, i think mental health is going to be the next wave of health reform. we're the last country that pays for substance use disorder and mental health care by basically grant and cash pay, as secretary bizzaro noted. i mean, mentahealth parity

terms of how our country's working with health care?etary raimondo's doing a tremendous job first of all. i'm very honored to be abling to serve on her advisory board for manufacturing. one thing she's focused on is helping to make sure the u.s. is secure from a supply chain perspective when it comes to delivering health care. i think that's been a -- >> are we? >> we're getting better after the pandemic. for bd one of our core strengths is we are a manufacturing company at heart. we make a tremendous -- we make billions of units of medical devices in the u.s. our strategy has always been to produce locally. we actually import very few products into the u.s. >> does secretary raimondo understand that it's just more expensive to make things here? >> we make things very efficiently in the u.s. if you go into one of oufrp factories you'll see very advanced robot sxikz automation. that's what allows us to do it, is with technology. we're a 125-year-old company. we've been doing manufacturing right from the start. so that's a core competency

family, the elders of the family, the parents of the family are very important, they should be our health care workers, now we have a plan called the plan. family health , when we started this project in 57 cities, we reached 93, now we have 193 cities, this plan is being implemented, and in this plan, we actually create a health record for each national code, and we are looking for that family to be a he should have his own health care provider , and in fact, this health care provider should come and check in that family and make his own recommendations for that family, and we are looking to prevent disease from occurring before it occurs in the family. in fact, this national health survey plan is connected to the health plan the family, an international conference with the presence of nearly 20 ministers of health from different countries , god willing, we will have it in march, where we will present family health as an initiative of the islamic republic of iran , and in that family health discussion, this there are those who are with the family in their habits, their culture, their behavior

every aspect of health care. what is right and fix this. and do a temporary fix in this congress. we can do it and got a few weeks to get it done and come together as republicans and at with new ideas so american seniors and doctors can take care of ou. mr. murphy: we are d depriving access which those who can't afford. but those who can't see one of theseh doctors and can't take more medicare patients, guess what happens? they go departments. we have to stop this nonsense. i rognize dr. schrier, a pediatrician. you have two >> i rise to speak about fair physician reimbursement and urge my colleagues to addresshe thato effect on january 1 and address ro physician medicare reimbursement. and it keeps those physicians prayo can get the care they need. over the past 22 years, physicians have taken a6% pay cut from medicare and in the context of everything else increasing with expenses up 47%. i cannot think of another profession that has dropped by 27%. weil■?ill ourselves unable to find a physician because physicia

so this is in fact a health-care crisis. and there's nothing about this moment that is hypothetical. today in america, one in three women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban. let us understand what that really means for people across our nation. let us understand the horrific reality women face every single day. since roe was overturned, i have met women -- i've actually met more than one who have had miscarriages in toilets because they were refused care. i've met women who went to the emergency room and who would turned away because doctors were afraid they would be thrown in jail for providing care. just yesterday, i was in wisconsin for the first stop of my national fight for reproductive freedom tour. there i met a woman named megan. because of a law that wisconsin passed in 1849, that extremists then used in current day, to stop abortion. megan had to go to minnesota, leave the state she called home to receive the care that saved her life. across our nation, women are suffering. let us be very clea

we'llave health care in our country. if you stand with me.for civil liberties and civil rights if you stand with me. we will have an attorney general who is not john ashcroft. if you stand with me, we will fight to make america safe in the world again. if you stand and fight with me, we will be george bush and set this country free. thank you and god bless. oh. i. thank you very much. i want to say i'll tell you, iowa was extraordinary, not just not not not just for the winning, but it's always great. but for the people, fortrust the hopes that they would express to us in the most improbable places, in the most american way. it is a beautiful journey. i'm privileged to have been part of it, and i wish all americans could have sensed the joy and seriousness, the wonder of our democracy, the way in which these americans gathered on farms and barns, in restaurants and elsewhere, lodges and vfw halls, and took this nation's issues seriously, more seriously than some of our so-called hington, d.c. that is a gift to america. and i bring that gift b

they have access to primary health care, hospitalizations. they have good public health services.ly, there vaccination rates in gaza was very high, which is important for this crisis. there are still a lot of problems. the lifestyle issues. many high rates of noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity. a lot of smoking. they lack a lot of specialists and specialization. some basic cancers could be treated. anything more severe or complicated we need to be referred outside the gaza strip. host: what is the situation, the current situation as you can tell right now? guest: it is a really difficult, horrific public health situation. what has happened is the gaza strip is very small to begin with. it's also extreme the high density popular incident -- highly densely populated. approximately 1.9 million people have been displaced, moving primarily south. throughout that there's been repeated bombardment. the civilians themselves often have to be displaced multiple times. there really is no place safer these people to go. one of the groups, the un relief and work agen

it easier for new mexicans to get the health care they need from ambulance services to ultrasounds, from optometry to dental services, from primary care for seniors to behavioral health. these initiatives are working. that's why i'm requesting another $100 billion for the rural health care livery fund. additional medicaid funding so our providers can meet growing demand in the hospital -- with a hospital provider tax which will bring in an additional 1.5-$2 billion into our state shoring up our health care delivery system without costing patients or providers a dime. let's complete the health care authority. doing so will reduce premiums, cut out-of-pocket costs, increase consumer protection, demand better provider networks and hold insurance companies accountable. new mexicans should never have their lives or livelihoods threatened by insurance companies that are more determined to make a dollar. [applause] gov. grisham: as we look toward the future, we are also looking toward our young people and working to provide nation leading education at every age. today, we are the only state

>> we like health care going to this year because you saw huge outflows from health care as a sector. it is under, loved under owned. also not very expensive. and on top of that the mrna you talked about. we prefer health care and biotech, stay way from where we see less strong trends. that selectivity plays and health care as well. >> what do you? think >> we like health care as well, for us, it's a devaluation play. it didn't get a lot of 11 2023. >> that's for sure. >> we think it's an opportunity to lead indefinitely in 2024. >> energy, how about that? i feel like people are trying to place their bets there but i think there is already skittishness. it's not going to work again. what do you think? >> i think you have to think of energy has a hedge instead of an outright upside opportunity. >> why is that? >> meaning, if you've higher inflation, a lot of parts of the market are probably going to struggle with higher interest rates. meaning, if you see oil prices go, up that contributes to higher inflation, energy will be your safe haven. see it is a position size more like a hedge,

[applause] we also need greater access to behavioral health care and to build on the success of i matter, championed by senators, the budget calls for more support for behavior health, better autism care for youth, expanded care for youth facing acute and severe behavioral health challenges, investments in mental health support for the rural and agricultural communities and those involved with the criminal justice system . at the heart of all these conversations are the coloradans working to expand access for and helping save money which is why i continue to make this work a top priority. it was important then, it's important now, so we need to innovate and look for more ways to lower costs and save people money on health care. part of a healthy life means a healthy environment. here in colorado, we are an example to the nation of how to protect the natural world around us and combat the impact of a changing climate. we are already on track to exceed our goal of 80% clean energy by 2030, just six years from now. [applause] we have one of the most ambitious strategies in the country to re

there can be no justice without health care justice in our country. nd there can be no health justice without freedom in the united states of america being once again restored. so i thank you, madam president, and with that, a i yield back. ms. warren: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: thank you, madam president. i want to start by saying a very special thank you to senator butler for us here today. today should have been the 51st anniversary of roe v. wade. instead, too many people can't get the medical care they need when they need it where they it. students who are desperate for help get the runaround. poor women face impossible hurdles. children who have survived rape and become pregnant are fright confused. fer filth clinics are abandoning services and families that had hoped for a baby face excruciating heartache when a pregnancy goes wrong and doctors are barreded from h. . at every turn we see a new form of hell brought to us by an extremist supreme court and a powerful band of republicanwmakers

forced to travel basic miles to get health care.o go to court to plead to help to protect themselves and the ability to have children in the future. the cruelty is a sounding. an affront to a woman's dignity to be told by extreme politicians to wait, to get sicker and sicker before anything can happen. even to the point your life had been determined to be in danger. or that idea a woman should have to carry a fetus after she had been raped, a victim of incest. it is outrageous. are the idea a woman receives competent medical advice that the fetus she is carrying will not live in will impact her ability to have children in the future. she still cannot get medical care. did anyone think this is where america was going in 2024? i can go on. and let there be no mistake. the person most responsible for taking away the freedom in america is donald trump. listen to what he says. from says he proud he overturned roe v. wade. he said there has to be punishment for the women exercising their reproductive freedom. he describes the dodd decisio

those tax dollars need to go to our health care and to health care for people here and abroad, not to be killing doctors and bombing hospitals. any delay is an act of racism. when we have critical lives at stake in medicine, we act critically. you guys are the speaker. time has elapsed. i'll turn it back on. hello. my name is george jessel, and i oppose this resolution. and i have a very strong feelings on, on on the, uh, on the jewish side, on the israeli side that i just want to call to your attention that israel is a nation of refugees, not just refugees from holocaust, but also refugees from arab lands. half of the population of israel, many of them brown people, were natives in arab lands for thousands of years and were killed out and live there. they have nowhere else to go. there's a lot of fear. i'm calling for some humility that after they've been after. excuse me, excuse me. stop for a second. let the man speak. when everyone is speaking , let them speak. if you disagree, put your hand like this. if you agree, wave your hands. do not taunt people when they're speaking. go ah

health insurance, telehealth and digital health access, drug pricing, the opioid crisis, mental health care, the list goes on, and all of this are public health topics that are surrounded by policy and in fact, the kaiser family foundation survey show that all of these topics i just listed are considered to be important for candidates to talk about by more than 50% of people who completed this survey. so voters are watching. so is public health. >> and what's your advice to go and do your research? find out, you know, what the candidates, how they feel about the issues, how they vote on the issues, those ones that impact our health. >> you said it perfectly. >> i think the most important thing for people to do is to look up what candidates stances are. would their policies on things related to drug pricing, mental health care, medicaid, medicare expansion, and how does it affect you? we've gotten to a place of tribalism where someone might say, i'm voting for this candidate because that's how i should vote, but pay attention to how all these public health centric policy changes could affect