medical center. 26 years ago, the day i left nursing school was because i believe in universal health care. i believe in the ability to have medical care, whether you have money in your wallet or not, whether you have an insurance policy that's going to let you have that care. i, i had two opportunity to meet senator edwards. the second one being in november. he had an impromptu question and answer session. we sat down across from him. and my question wasn't about policy. my questionork hard every day because i work hard every day and i can work every day because, you know, there's a shortage of nurses. so if i work hard every day for you, senator, how do i know that when you wake up the day after the inauguration that you are not going to work hard for me and he thought about it for a minute, wasn't can wasn't scripted. he said, first of all, i'll never forget you. i'm committed. i will work for you. he looked me in the eye and you know what? he was committed. he is committed to all of us having what we deserve. we deserve health care. we deserve the right to retire. we deserve to have a

and so women's health care is, is very connected to general health care. and so when we put it this way, when you ameliorate the lives of people who are the most marginalized, then everybody wins. everybody wins when you improve health care for women? men do well very they do. they do very well. children do to do well and, and people in general will get more of the expansive and holistic care that's necessary when you begin to recognize how attached women's reproductive rights are to health care. angela, we only have about 2 minutes left, especially coming from the libertarian perspective. do you agree with that, that when you attach things like birth control, does that help everyone and is it right to attach birth control to abortion? i to, to, to put the 2 in the same category. are they 2 separate subjects that is totally separate to me? health care for me is about human flourishing. and, and you know, especially the regulation and allowing people to get the access they need to things that are going to improve and, and help their lives. you know, to me,

s essential funding stream to lower health care costs through prevention. this funding in the prevention fund goes to our state and local partners to improve public health and prevent chronic diseases. the prevention fund encourages soaking cessation, prevents childhood lead poisoning, and enhance infectious disease control. this fund plays a critical role in our efforts to help the american people leave healthier lives. and to cut the prevention fund to throw more money to the big pharma friends makes it clear they are not interested in reaching consensus. they would rather join -- jam through a partisan bill that will put the very communities that they claim to be helping. mr. speaker, this bill is nothing more than a giveaway of big pharma at the extension of the american people. i strongly oppose the bill and urge my colleagues to oppose it as well. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. mrs. rodgers: thank you, mr. chairman. ladies and gentlemen, the reasons that the

health care for me is about human flourishing. and, and um, you know, especially the regulation and allowing people to get the access, they need to things that are going to improve and, and health, or lives, you know, to me in portion is the ending of a life. and so i don't include that in health care, and i recognize that in, you know, 3 percent or less of circumstances. it's necessary to save the life of the mother by the rest of the time. i do not agree that, that, that is any way attached to help. i definitely want people to have access to good health care though, and i hope that our government will use restrictions and regulatory burdens that benefit insurance companies over individuals. you know, i'd like everybody to have affordable health care. well and, but i don't include that. and of course as well. angela cut all terribly returned national committee and that's the robinson health professional do law and media comforter. thank you so much for having this. very simple, very important discussion today when it comes to abor

i'm interested on also do, but not why does the health care system filed reflect out of the society? he's and medical equipment appears to be biased. and people with acute health problems of being sent home the system that's supposed to help everyone equally is actually pushing many at risk. it's a problem that needs to be addressed as it's routes. the gaps in the system start with gaps in education. here in rust, all kinds of medical students want to change. this is john asked us not to use his last night. he fused the 5 right might talk the same problem. jesus starts with medical literature, start off to learn about dermatology and heart disease patterns, loops exclusively in terms of white skin, and it is a contract. not all patients are going to be white ties on hold. this means we can overlook diseases, misdiagnosed and in the worst case. so let people die comfortable football. just is there any disease where this is particularly noticeable was, but was, it wasn't, there could be some team of alpha on the media. it's an issue with line disease and also with anemia. some people, s

>> karen talked a little bit about health care. now health care is one of our neutral sectors. you want to make sure you're broadly diversified within that. we were overweight united health care and wanted to add to g gilead because of the balance sheet doordash has been a great winner for us, and we took some out of a discretionary cap. we love our analyst and he gave us a good name we rode for a year it's just a matter of diversifying from a longer term perspective, right now we're underweight large cap energy but more neutral. >> you want to comment, too, let's do snap as well. we have several big movers to go through. snap is sinking and sinking badly today, almost 35%. that's on a revenue miss, light guidance the worst day since july of '22. you bought this on february 1st. do you still own it today? >> we do we're hampered a little bit by our process, our low turnover portfolios we have to publish the report and then buy the stock we rarely buy things mid month, scott. we were teeing this up and probably should have waited until after the earnings -- >> do you think? prob

so what's gonna happen when causes health care system totally collapses? today we're talking with dr. fire off my global health director for the department of emergency medicine, an advocate christ medical center in chicago, and also in chicago. dr. moore, i am getting a human tyler just on college, just who co founded the palestinian american medical association. thank you both for joining us. this is a complicated, a sobering topic. doctor ok mad you just as i understand it, spent 3 weeks in nasir hospital in con eunice. and i'd like is best you can, you've written about this in the chicago tribune, but i'd like you to give a feel for what is happening there. that is often not seen on tv, not discussed in shows like this, but what is the real life situation of god since right now in hosp settles in in under attack? yeah, thank you for having us, steve. this is an important topics i do want to mention, especially with what's going on and also hospital now that people need to be aware that no said hospital was the last remaining trauma hospital in the gaza

and so women's health care is, is very connected to general health care. and so when we put it this way, when you ameliorate the lives of people who are the most marginalized, then everybody wins. everybody wins when you improve health care for women? men do well, very good. they do, they do very well. children's do to do well and, and people in general will get more of the expansive and holistic care that's necessary when you begin to recognize how attached women's reproductive rights are to health care. angela, we only have about 2 minutes left, especially coming from the libertarian perspective. do you agree with that, that when you attach things like birth control, does that help everyone and is it right to attach birth control to abortion? due to, to putting the 2 in the same category? are they to separate the subjects that is totally separate to me? health care for me is about human flourishing. and and um, you know, especially the regulation and allowing people to get the access they need to things that are gonna improve and, and help their lives. y

the impact day-to-day care of people and health care workers are living and breathing the health care they experience the realities of what it is to provide health care first-hand. william: one of the more striking disparities in this was the perspective of black health care workers. while half of all health care workers said doctors are more accepting of white patients advocating for themselves compared to black patients, it was 70% of black workers who said this. i mean, that kind of perspective just has to really leap out at you. dr. zepheryn: it does leap out at you. you know, where you come from is important. diverse experiences are incredibly important. the data is clear in general on the importance of a culturally diverse workforce. it has a really profound impact on the health care system, on patients served. i am sure you have seen data that the first workforce in cultural needs, improved communication, improve patient satisfaction. and there is more awareness on the impacts of discrimination bias because of lived experience. william: there were similar disparities when it ca

busy at a health care apocalypse and a health care crisis. a few months ago, it was shocking to hear that palestinian doctors had to perform operations without anesthesia. because israel was balking supplies, or the watches, so many thousands of people were being killed and injured every week. and patients were flooding floors in the hallways, across gauze hospital. thousands of people such sheltering your hospitals because they're supposed to be safe, even in wartime. right. well think again, why don't hospital after another has been surrounded by is really tanks bombed, rated destroyed. nowadays, the entire health care system in the gaza strip is on the verge of collapse. and more than 600 doctors and health care workers had been killed by israel in the last 5 months. and mal nutrition and disease are spreading due to the choke, hold on, just about anything, getting in. and the word shows no signs of stopping soon with hundreds more palestinians killed and wounded daily. so what's gonna happen when causes health care system totally collapse

look into how federal health care affordability programs like medicaid and metal -- medicare, which you mentioned, interact with assisted living facilities, how we can do better there. and whether families choose an assisted living facility or in-home care, they need help. the average cost of $4500 a month, that is the average cost. but you rightly point out the ways in which, for example, with early onset dementia, people's's retirement funds actually drained just taking care of the individual. and so, that is why i support efforts to lower caregiving costs for aging adults. it is a critical issue for our country. i will continue to work with my colleagues on this committee, informed by the expertise by people like the folks on our panel to improve long-term care for folks across georgia and across the country. thank you so much for your work in this area. chair casey: thank you very much for your questions. i will now move a little bit out of order. we will move to a second round as we are waiting for senators to ask first round questions, some of whom are on their way. i know the ran

intended into the facing what i saw online for us on i'm interested on also do not why does the health care system filed reflect out of the society? he's and medical equipment appears to be biased. and people with acute health problems of being sent home the system that's supposed to help everyone equally is actually pushing many at risk. it's a problem that needs to be addressed as it's routes. the gaps in the system start with gaps in education. to enroll stall conclusive medical students want to change. this is john asked us not to use his last night. he fused the 5 right might talk a shame. the problem he says, starts with medical literature. instead of those to learn about dermatology and how disease patterns, luke, exclusively, in terms of white skin reduce the conquered, not all patients are going to be white applies on hold. this means we can overlook diseases you'd miss diagnose. and in the worst case, or let people die comfortable, just sending disease where this is particularly noticeable was, but i believe it was the name of alpha on the media. it's an issue with lane disease an

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. we don't underst stand sometimes 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 w

to quality health care for our people. from keeping 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 i

we will accomplish that through the alabama school of health care sciences. members available in the legislature investing in this is one of my top priorities this session and i'm counting on you to make this a reality. [applause] dr. dickers once had an interview that education is the great equalizer and i could not agree more. thank you for your contributions to our state and our nation and thank you for being with us today. will you please stand it be recognized. [applause] [applause] during my inaugural address i promised the people of alabama that ensuring every alabama will receive a high-quality education will be my number one goal in this term. members while i'm always delighted to be with you all i'm especially proud we are joined by many of our young people tonight. we heard the beautiful music from mark jasper high school students who hail from towns. thank you all for being here. [applause] please stand and let us recognize you. [applause] [applause] this last year one of the highlights for me personally was visiting her 15 turn around schools. 4t

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number one, health care services health care services generally do well during an election year particularlye look at potential medicare advantage, enhanced reimbursements, therapeutics, drugs, don't do well, given this cycle and a big boost from glp-1, seeing a lot of traction in oncology. and then on the medical equipment side if you look at procedure volume, which is something that a lot of the managed care organizations have been concerned about, there's multiple pockets of opportunity in health care, and so if you're looking at, hey, i want to go into things that have lagged but i want to have diversification, there are places to operate within the sector right now. >> i will defer to the expert, karen firestone, formerly the manager of the fidelity health care and biotech fund, correct >> for years, yes. >> for years so, what do you think? >> she agrees with me. >> so i love that, and health care was my sector pick for this year some of what you said i would totally agree. some of the market, not all, drugs, outperform during election years this is a group that has underperformed, badl

let's talk health care. you mentioned there are opportunities in health care.nk health care, right now, i think weight loss drugs. is that what you are looking at? or is there room to grow beyond that? sarah: there is a variety of answers. there are discussions about how some medications in the longer-term can change the face of health care. part of it is navigating that system currently -- and how it might fit into the system in the future but you are still going to hear about health care issues that are not going away. you have an aging demographic and other health issues not addressed by these. there is opportunity in this space but one where you have to be careful how you are navigating it and whether any of those big movements can make a change in something else you do not realize has an ancillary area affect. katie: it is not waistline -- weight loss drugs are disrupting retail but also health care. a lot of health care stocks had a terrible year last year. but when it comes to health care, sometimes people say they see potential m&a opportunities there.

now, let's turn to health care. for years, our state has struggled with a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and professionals. and november 9th we will address this crisis, developed the health care association of hawaii and hilton, the state department of health and my team and funded by you, the hawaii, education loan repayment program or help provides now unprecedented $30 million over the first two years of educational loan repayment to help health professionals to bring them to and keep them in hawaii. [applause] >> now, why we do this is because it helps. a diverse list of health care professionals applied for loan repayment up to $50,000, some who own 4 or 500,000 of debt in minimum exchange for two years while they're getting into practice and caring for patients that need them the most. so these scholarships are provided to those who care for those usually on medicaid, and we've received thousands of applications, will touch 750,000 of our citizens because of your wisdom in passing this legislation and fun

yeah, so definitely health care has increased along with home care and assisted living. the primary factor is of course, as you might expect, the employment costs of competition. we're seeing a lot of competition from other industries for the same employee pool. for example, with the fast food industry, you're coming to see $20.00 to $25.00 an hour. and so we're competing with those same for, for the same employees within the home share and broader health care deal with home care. specifically, we're competing against large hospital corporations as well. and that makes it a bit tricky because they have more resources, obviously to lower employees too. so that's the other aspect that we're seeing that's making it challenging to get employees. the result, naturally, the cost of hiring those employees are going uh we're also seeing cost increase as a result of you know, pandemic, obviously cobra being the most recent $1.00, the hazard pay associated with a has, has bumped up pricing as well. the p p that we have to provide in our employees to provide the chair safely, has a

ready health care? yes, absolutely. for certain types of patients and certain types of insurance is here in the united states. either barriers or challenges in the adoption of generic alternatives. and how can these be addressed? basically, the barriers mostly is federal regulations at the approval for certain drugs. those are the biggest barriers because if they don't get their approval, if they don't have a certain regulation to go from a bench research to clinical face studies involving humans, then that that can lead to huge barriers going developing of a certain types of drugs, but also allow it to be affordable and covered by in certain insurances. so mostly it's government regulation and how it can be addressed is basically the uh, um, voting for the proper uh, regulations in the escalating the regulations on certain types of parts of the company. and deregulating certain uh to allow for a better open market and for less of ultimately about creating cancer drugs and the pharmaceutical industry contributed to maki

ready health care? yes, absolutely. for certain types of patients and certain types of insurance is here in united states. either barriers or challenges in the adoption of generic alternatives. and how can these be addressed? basically, the barriers mostly is federal regulations at the approval for certain drugs. those are the biggest barriers because if they don't get the approval, if they don't have a certain regulation to go from a bench research to clinical phase studies involving humans, then that that can lead to huge barriers. dolling developing of a certain types of drugs, but also allow it to be affordable and covered by in certain insurances. so mostly it's government regulation and how it can be addressed is basically the uh, um, voting for the proper uh, regulations in the escalating the regulations on certain types of parts of the company and deregulating certain uh to allow for a better open market and for less of ultimately about creating cancer drugs and the pharmaceutical industry contributed to making