i believe this nation owes its people who has created the safety and agency of healthcare that healthcareis greater in scope more than the operating table and housing and food and income components of basic human dignity or healthcare and the work for all people and i believe come i have to believe that single-payer health care is our moral imperative. single-payer is our tool. single-payer is the weapon. single-payer on its own. i have seen and you have seen suffering and families ripped apart with the bloodlust of capitalism and people i live toward limit from live to extract profits and this is intolerable to me and so i say enough. not in my name the root ourselves not in fear but in love and from that love those that can and will be destroyed. my friends single-payer is necessary. single-payer is i swear to you achievable. solidarity now and solidarity forever. [applause] >> we have time for a couple of questions. >>. >> i'm glad you mentioned capitalism do you support any left group or just elizabeth warren? just kidding. >> the democratic socialist of america. >> under single payer

being a canadian native you have seen government run healthcare. >> they fully took over the healthcare system 1984. no private coverage is allowed for anything considered medically necessary. cosmetic surgery, lasix surgery for your eyes the government is not involve the prices have gone down so in canada i look at the institute where we started a project 1988 and on 1993 the first year the average wait time to see a primary care doctor to go to the gp who refers if it is necessary in 1993 it was nine.three weeks. last year increased at 20.nine weeks that's five months. and those that cross the border every month to pay out-of-pocket to get the mri or the ct scan or hip replacement or how her - - heart valve. and canadians have the escape valve but where will we go? like doctor tom price say we will have to go offshore to continue to get the very best in medicine. and say i hope you're not becoming the inpatient american but to say that i'm sorry you cannot get an appointment or get a colonoscopy. canadian say that will be nice. but for a lot of people they don't know any different. >>

of the healthcare setting. so what we have seen in some countries is that other members of the community have been helping healthcare workers with the rest of their lives. they have helped them do grocery shopping, the captain clean their homes. it helped them look after the r kids and beyond the technicalf what who can provide, is our humanity moment and us alone solidarity element here and that their front line workers are putting at risk. they always do and we are eternally full for them but we can also help them at home. so at the who guidance here but this is something that we can all do in helping. host: let's take a few more questions. jim westwood. >> hi, thank you very much. first of all, we appreciate how frustrating it must be for you to be in demand for answers about a virus that you're learning about in real time. so please know that we really appreciate this. my question really is, is there a light at the end of the tunnel here pretty soon we see an end to this thing even now. we know that the fun

.>>> next at 11, they are not our healthcare workers, they are our healthcare soldiers and they are literally fighting the front lines for us.>> healthcare workers and first responders get no relief as the coronavirus spreads, no one restaurant in the east bay is stepping up to help.>> the 11 o'clock news on ktvu fox 2 starts now. >> it's not something to aspire to but tonight the united states has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than any other nation in the world. hello again everyone, i'm julie haner. >> and i'm frank somerville working from home. the u.s. economy is also feeling the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. an employment claims have hit a record high of 3.28 million last week. that's more than four times the previous weekly high setback in 1982. many states are essentially overwhelmed. economists think it will just get worse. spec on wall street stocks surged despite doesn't implement numbers, traders are anticipating passage of that massive rhinovirus a bill that expands unemployment benefits. the dow gained more than 1300 points today, nasdaq rose 413 and the s&p was

so many disruptors in healthcare. with this problem, i want people to realize throwing more money into the system does not fix it. we already spend enough money to give everybody within our borders good healthcare. we just need to cut the waste. the politicians are talking about different ways to finance the broken healthcare system, not how to fix the broken health care system and if we fix it we have to look at pricing failures and appropriateness of care. they billed us after the flight and didn't show prices. they would be price gouging. you might get a bill for $4,000, we don't know if there will be a delay. the pilot might have to go for turbulence and work harder and more complex, good medical coding after they land and you might get a surprise bill for $500 for consuming a beverage. we would say we can get our act together as the airline industry has and price services so we have a healthy competitive marketplace that end is horrible practice of price gouging in healthcare today which i am concerned is eroding

currently the only pharmacist in congress so healthcare is important to me and also i think everyone would agree with that. i think it's interesting that you start off the book with the purpose that the health care system is broken and the polls say that 70 percent say it is broken. >> right. i do think healthcare will be the number one domestic policy issue in the presidential election. in a recent poll that just came out from gallup that said 35 percent of the american people polled rate healthcare as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen 53 percent of americans support single-payer but now 65 percent are supporting the public option which is a supplemental insurance plan to compete i call it the steppingstone approach to government run healthcare. >>host: they say the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, my party were ousted as the majority in the house to make the argument regarding healthcare and many of us campaign on repeal and replace and unfortunately we did not get that done and that was shown at the ballot box. >

effectively denied us by the american healthcare model. we live in a time of deep alienation with these kind of conspiracy theories often in the world around us and it's only this tedious compassion that really makes a difference. it's the kind of work that will never be considered, never championed by blue cross blue shield. it's incomprehensible to the health finance model we have now because it's not profitable for anybody to invest in so we have these considerations of things that are totally divorced from the model of health finance. that's why i wrote this book. let's talk about american healthcare and american finance. once again, thanks for having me here. this is my first book. i'm not much of a writer but i think it is ironclad and i hope you like it if you pick it up. consider giving you 20 minutes on how medicaid works which is fascinating for a saturday afternoon. there's a lo a lot of a lot of d health care and a lot of tears and this book but i try to line ilinuxwith little glimmers of h. a better world that we can live free

people have to receive healthcare. what we're seeing in new york and what we have seen in italy and other places is that the rapid surge in the number of people needing healthcare because of infection with the sars virus can win the surge occurred and healthcare systems are challenged to provide the care and to provide the type of personal protective equipment that protectsvi healthcare providers from themselves being infected. it's also important to keep in mind that when we read data about the number of healthcare professionals whoe have the infection, it's important to remember that many press come most of those have got their infections in the community. personal protective equipment is effective at preventing the transmission of the virus am a patient or healthcare provider. and the cdc has issued very thoughtful guidelines for the use of that ppe. but we still have of course healthcare workers have lives outside of thee healthcare delivery system and many of them are acquiring thehe infection jt as others are fro

our countries healthcare infrastructure and our economic resolve is today being tested. we will defeat the virus and we will be back stronger than ever. i thank you, mr. president, and i yield the floor. >> mr. president? >> senator from washington. >> mr. president, i come to theh floor to thank my colleagues for hard work on this legislation and to urge my colleagues to move forward today because the state of washington desperately needs this hell. when i think about this package that literally has been crafted since saturday about 10:00 and people running to go and collaborate, and yes, there were many challenges to that collaboration, i also think about the people who were on the phone line in the state of washington who have paid such a heavy price. from the factory worker we just lost in everett, washington, to the covid-19 disease, to the grocery in the grocery store i was just tried to help deliver groceries to ao needed public, o the pathologist at the university of washington who was a leader in this field but also lostlo his life. real sacrifice and real crush

it is our -- the capacity of our healthcare system. have enough beds, do we have enough gloves, enough ppe equipment and the answer is no. and that's why the federal government now fully engaging, and i believe the president now gets it. that's where they have to focus. we shouldn't have to go to scarves and bandannas. there is something called the federal defense procurement act, this is a war. treat it like a war. say to the manufacturers in this country, i need you to build these pieces of equipment quickly, certainly the gear, the machine next to me, the ventilator, this is going to be the matter of life and death for people. we now have about 5,000, 6,000 ventilators in new york state. we need about 30,000 ventilators because these people who have come in all have respiratory illnesses. >> i hear your plea. how fast do you believe those 30,000 can be built? >> well, that's the war time mentality. you can't buy a ventilator right now. globally you can't buy them. we're going to have to make them or make something like them. and tha

lenny: i'm not a healthcare expert. but if i were working in a business right now, i would be wearing gloves. i might be wearing a mask. would insist on six feet of distance from every customer and co-workers to the extent possible. i would be cleaning surfaces again so again and that i'm confident that the that table there on or that bar or whatever the occurring.s as an older woman, your caller susceptible to the severe aspect of this virus that we have seen. the numbers are pretty striking. 60, you get up over particularly 70 and 80, the fatality rate goes up, the the illness goes up, frequency of severe illness goes up. i think this is a woman who has to take utmost precaution if to work.ng to continue steve: here in washington, d.c., chris, you are next. good evening. caller: good evening. i want to say thank you for c-span. i think you're the best network on television. quickke to raise three issues in terms of the stimulus, lack ofing and the p.p.e. to thef all, in regard stimulus, i can see that the determined t

this is so profound the question why this nation with the best healthcare providers and the best healthcare institutions in the world is so far behind other nations so let me offer these recommendations for the road ahead. first coming in the words of the hippocratic oath, do no harm. the administration lost 6 to 8 weeks in responding to this crisis, critical time that was used productively by other nations because the president continually downplayed the threat of covid-19. no american has a louder microphone than he does and he downplayed the threat, suggesting it was contains, suggested everyone would be tested, suggested it was a hoax, suggested the democrats or the chinese or the media were blowing it out of proportion. whether his comments were due to ignorance or political desire to hide bad news is irrelevant. i was so shocked he summitted a budget on february 10th when the virus's global spread was clear to all that dramatically cut funding for key public health agencies, the nih, cdc, hhs and our investments in global partnerships like the world health organization, the white hous

it really has been a very positive and for the community for healthcare's, healthcare jobs are significant. the things i hear about now, why am i getting the high cost of drugs and why is it a situation where healthcare if you're not on the health plan is so stressful, i changed jobs and i changed healthcare, the health plan how do i get it in the middle of the year, my spouse has healthcare but i'm not on their plan, i was not on the plan i'm going to get dropped, what about the kids, how do i get children to health insurance program. the complexity of our system, i hear people say the other challenge you to hear this throughout rural oregon is white or have to fight with insurance companies. so the very time you're sick and maybe are struggling with cancer or some other major disease you're studying bills trying to figure out when you pay the deductible and then shouldn't this be covered in your having to be in a fight. this stress is much higher in our system so healthcare is one piece and by the way americans on drugs, 80% of americans are ready to say we should get the same fair price

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edit now labors under healthcare shock. there's reason to believe that once we get the healthcare strategy right, we will be poised for the economy to resume its upward trajectory, but we must provide protection and support in the meantime. i believe the focus of an economic package should be workers and small businesses. they are the most vulnerable to the current challenge and most in need of intervention. this is the message i am hearing again and again as i talk to virginia residents and business leaders. i had a wonderful conversation with the president of my statewide chamber of commerce the other day and he said candidly, more of our members are actually medium and large businesses, but the most important thing youim can do is focus upon the needs of small businesses and their employees. and iin appreciated he was advocating even for a business sector that is not the core of his membership. butbu this is what he was hearing and this is what i think most of us are hearing. i support direct cash payments to low and mid

the cares act also maintains access to healthcare. specifically makes $200 billion investment in hospitals health systems and health research and include the requirement that all insurance policies for the full cost of future vaccines within 15 days it also helps people maintain their insurance if they laid off. finally, the bill maintains students access to education. now have more than $30 billion in relief of students educators, schools and institutions of higher learning. for institutions of learning provide financial relief to colleges and universities and support grants to display students. the k-12 will provide help to educators to adapt to long-term closures for purchases of oeducation technology for onli learning and provide equitable access to education for students with disabilities. the cares act moves us ovin the right direction but is important to recognize the legislation is only a down payment and the relief that our communities will need in the weeks and months ahead must immediately start work on a fourth package tha

as you said, the ba provides healthcare for 9 million veterans. there really are 20 million veterans in the country so the va has a large effort directed towards education and the g.i. billdi in the house and effort towards benefits should somebody require assistance that they are no longer able to work or if they are disabled and it goes all the way through the time of making sure every veteran, when the time comes, is buried with dignity and respect and so there are 114 va cemeteries around the country and they do an amazing job supporting families during these tough times. this is a organization, second largest in the u.s. government, employs 370,000 people who are there, many are veterans themselves looking to give back. it does an amazing job and really does deserve the support and understanding of the american people. >> host: that's great but i appreciate that. i often point out to people that the va is the second-largest ofdepartment and second largest agency, second largest budget and people just from a civics mind point should be more in

in a healthcare crisis.arify, from your understanding, if you lose a job, you might get this payment, but you won't get healthcare? is that your understanding of will happen? well, thatis understanding of will happen? well, that is the facts, in the states. now, our union, we will get along, we make sure of that. some benevolent employers have extended healthcare, but that is a rarity. so in the states, if you have employer —based healthcare, in the states, if you have employer —based healthca re, you in the states, if you have employer —based healthcare, you lose your insurance the last day of the month you get laid off. so if you get laid off yesterday, you are out of insurance come first of april. there will be millions of people like that, and yet congress has not addressed that issue at all. the direct payment, though, of $1200 to adults, that will surely help people not necessarily live well, but simply to get through the next few weeks and months, the worst period of the crisis, until potentially the

healthcare workers and first responders are on the front lines every day. yesterday we took additional steps to respond to the impact of the virus on the dph work force. because of their jobs on the front lines, many healthcare workers cannot abide by the stay at home order. they are essential, and in some cases their workplaces do not allow for social distancing. in fact, quite the opposite. several jobs in our healthcare system involve close contact with other staff members and vulnerable populations. for example, emergency room. psychiatric emergency services and urgent care center at zuckerberg hospital andlugana honda hospital and other settings where staff have prolonged contact with each other and high risk patients. they come to work every day at risk for transmitting the virus to each other and exposing the high risk population they serve. we have issued new guidance above and beyond cdc recommendations to provide isolation masks for people working in these settings in our healthcare system. we will provide isolation masks to workers and patients i

pillar one is to bolster the healthcare system dramatically. if we don't feed the fight against this virus, if we don't do it as quickly as possible, the economy will get worse and worse no matter what we do so we must work extremely quickly and massively to bolster our healthcare system. we need a marshall plan for our healthcare system and that is what we propose. we need direct aid to hospitals. larger hospitals in many cities already have patients, smaller and rural hospitals could will be in danger of closing because of this crisis. we must bolster the hospitals. we need equipment, they need ventilators, they need more icu beds, they need masks, a simple thing like a nose swab. a hospital told me they can't do testing because they don't have nasal swabs. we need the president to marshall the defense production act to get all of these materials produced on a wartime footing quickly, dramatically and people in large numbers. the first plank of our plan dramatically bolsters our healthcare system which is being overwhelmed through no fault of

despite can be gained by lending a hand. >> they are not our healthcare workers, they are our healthcare soldiers and they are literally fighting on the front lines for us. the least we can do with hot fo >> they set up a gofundme, donations cover the cost of ingredients alone, a way to keep some workers employed. >> there's a lot of people in the restaurant business living check to check. sometimes they need hundred dollars a day, that's what it's about. >> so far they provided 160 meals to firefighters, healthcare workers, and nurses. there's plans to provide hundreds of more free meals. they make the most heartwarming, it makes you want to get up and do it all over again. to get through these times you guys, service is the only way to go, just we are really makin a difference out there.>> tomorrow they plan to provide 60 free lunches e police department. they plan to rotate from police longer if needed.>> simple acts of kindness can make such a difference in times like this.>>> airbnb is also supporting healthcare workers and others who are on the front lines, fighting the coronavirus

we need to recruit more healthcare workers. we need to share healthcare professionals. within this state and within this country. as governor of new york, i am asking healthcare professionals across the country. if you don't have a healthcare crisis in your community please come help us in new york now. we need relief, we need relief for nurses who are working 12 hours shifts, one after the other. we need relief for doctors and we need for attendants. if you are not busy, come help us please. we'll return the favor. we'll return the favor. new york, yes, we have it now intensi intensi inten intensely. new york will be on one side will be on the other side of the curve then there will be an intense issue some where else in the nation. the new york way is to be helpful. help new york, we are the ones that are hit now. that's today. tomorrow is going to be some where else. whether it is detroit or new orleans, it will work its way across the country. this is the time for us to help one another. we need supplies desperately. we are working on that. we just had a good meetin

healthcare system because we are looking people who understand how healthcare works from the private sector. so i made a list of the pro and cons the coin one - - the con side was much larger they on the pro but simply how could ii say no? this is my duty as an american citizen to give w back to the american people i didn't think too much about it i am prepared to come and help. >> that's great. if you have read the book that was during the obama administration initially so you are one of the few who serve both and the obama and trump administration we look forward getting into that but i would love to read a brief quote from your book early on you write it iske important america understands with the v.a. system is and how it works and why it exist. a lot of people don't understand the scope of what the v.a. has and what they are responsible for. could you start off by giving and elevator pitch to everything the v.a. does because there's so much more that the v.a. does. >> one of the reasons i wrote the book is exactly what you talked about i'm not sure whatt if the american public u

expedite the hiring of nurses and other healthcare professionals. this will be a critical boost to help prepare and respond tomorrow to coronavirus as an emergency. covid-19 has put significant pressure on our healthcare systems and around the world. san francisco is moving proactively to hire workers so the city will be evermore prepared to respond to covid- 19. healthcare workers are keeping her community health and safety and today's action will help us bring on more nurses to help us meet the demands of the response and augment and support the workforce already there in place and working hard every day often over time and extra days in order to staff or hospitals and clinics. we will speed up today and the hiring process from six months to a period of high ring on the spot for qualified applicants and starting within one week. this weekend dph will host an invitation only nurse hiring fair at san francisco general hospital and we will continue until all vacancies are filled. this will offer same day hiring and new nurses will be at work as soon

that's what you'll find in healthcare. but the va has an additional complexity in that it needs to provide care to veterans wherever they live in this country. so therefore, we have a large number of our veterans who live in very rural areas. finding people, especially specialists to be able to work in rural areas is a challenge for the va and private sector as well. so you have a tremendous variation between what works in the va from one place to another place for that's one of the things that of course i worked very hard on two standardized some of these practices.>> that reminded me of a funny story from your first confirmation hearing. when senator sullivan of alaska basically said, you need to come to alaska because we have a unique set of circumstances here. you need to understand that before he was going to vote for you. >> i think just so people know more about that. many people don't understand the senate confirmation process. you actually come in order to go quickly through a senate process and not require an ent

have you seen the urgent plea from healthcare workers? >> we have. i have talked to governors and emergency managers. we got updates through the task force. i'm well aware for the high demand for these items. >> again, why haven't those been shipped to those urgent care facilities. if you have those masks in the stockpile as you say you have and they're shipped, why weren't they shipped before? which really goes back to my original question, how are we in such bad shape at this point in terms of supplies? >> so, again, like i said at the beginning, my focus is today. right, filling all the demands that have been in the queue, filling the demands that we get today and tomorrow and the next month to make sure we find and connect the supply with the demand and meet that need. >> you said your agency hadn't been invited to join the white house task force until last week, should fema's involvement ramped up sooner and why hadn't it? not going to ok back on what should have been done, what wasn't done, and we can do that at a later time. again, my focus as

it's to buy time for us to ha increase the capacity of our healthcare system. this these three package ensures the men and women on the front lines of this epidemicevery day more support . it increases funding which you've already increased once that anadditional $4.5 billion for the centers for disease control . that $4.5 billion, 1.5 billion have to go to the states. this will ensure we continue to monitor and respond to this virus as this pandemic continues. i think this is incredibly important. it also sends more money out to ensure that we can get these antiviral therapies going. think of tamiflu or influenza, something that is key to dealing with this crisis as we begin to turn things around it's going to be having the ability to keep people healthier should they contract the virus . to me pamaybe the most important parts of this legislation because i believe in order to get our great country back on track and get people back to work, we need to have some sort of metric in place so maybe the most important part is to get better data on the true public hea

symptomatic healthcare workers. gov. phil murphy: dino many. ed: i know it first responders and symptomatic that again checked on that list of 20 or so sites. gov. phil murphy: can we let folks know other than what we are doing, and both bringing community and being see, is there any of the priorities given to healthcare workers and or first responders regarding testing. reporter: an employment website, also reports about that crashing, great difficulty registering and finding complaints. with an appointment. any update on that or ability to be that the system. gov. phil murphy: i don't and that is the last thing what happening right now because what folks were desperate hours to get. can we come back to that one. ... ... i make sense to move forward with both presidential in u.s. primaries but to cancel these small, low level elections, strikes me as a dangerous precedent, do you agree customer so i really have nothing to add are you good? >> one more thing with the landlords were trying to do right by their tenant

with the best and most robust healthcare in the world. you talk to anybody on the front lines they are concerned about it here. which should be a call. to think you're going it open this up. of course we all want to go out for brunch on easter. of course. you won't do it to risk somebody's life. that should cloerly come from the president. he knows that. he should. >> congressman kennedy, appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> stay healthy sp safe. >> you as well. the president and his allies floating the idea of letting younger workers go back to work first. medical officials are warning this virus is riskier for younger people than previously thought. what you need to know, next. neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. i'm working to treat every car like i treat mine. adp helps airtech automotive streamline payroll and hr, so welby torres can achieve what he's working for. it's got all

the american people understand that we cannot to continue a cruel and dysfunctional healthcare system. it is amazing to me to it see that in conservative states like mississippi, there is an overwhelming understanding that we are now spending twice as much. capita on healthcare as the people of any other country while 87 million of us remain uninsured or underinsured. and this crisis, this absurd healthcare system is becoming more and more obvious to the american people as we face the challenge of the corona virus pandemic that we are currently experiencing. imagine facing a pandemic on having 87 million people who are having a difficult time going to a doctor when they need. and the american people know, unlike donald trump, that climate change isn't next essential threat to our country in the planet. we need to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. the american people also know that we need fundamental -- of a broken and racist criminal justice system as well as a cruel immigration system that keeps millions of people living i

healthcare workers. we all have a shared goal is not only do we want to protect our patients and limit spread of the virus but also wants to protect health care workers. a small study out of china showed that one third of patients in one hospital were healthcare workers that were affected by the patients. part of that is because the chinese government initially told patients this was not a highly infectious illness and sent the moment healthcare workers did not take appropriate precautions because they didn't know but i can't just put the blame on china because we heard there is one patient from california that caused 93 healthcare workers in california to go into quarantine two of which tested positive, they moved that patient to another hospital which subsequent the cost another 124 healthcare workers to go into quarantine. it doesn't matter if there are enough beds which we don't have healthcare workers was the sense of having beds? i personally feel the majority of hospitals, we are prepared for this

we have more licensed healthcare bro physiciannals in the state of california essiona state of california. we estimate we have the capacity to increase our ranks by an additional 37,000 plus professionals that are in that time of life where they again may have just recently retired or they are in the process of getting their license and their degrees, so we are very, very hopeful with this effort that o individuals to be paid and coensated to participate in the workforce and disputed throughout our care delivery system all around the state of california. i will have an individual representative here in a moment to talk more specifically about what that means and also to remind everyone it is national doctors' day in the united states of america and deep respect and admiration for all our front line employees to meet this moment. also deep respect and admiration to mark zuckerberg . they are providing stipends r icipate thkind of ar support on things that otherwise, we wouldn't be paid for, not just like childcare and transportation, but hotel rooms and accommodations, so they put $2mill w

these people, our healthcare providers and emergency responders, need access to the proper equipment so they can stay healthy. we can take action right here, right now, to make sure that happens. i introduce this bipartisan bill with the senior senator from arizona. it would update our current law to make sure healthcare workers and first responders have access to respiratory protective devices. specifically standard and 95. under current law, the federal government can give targeted liability protection to people and entities to make, distribute, and administer a jet administer certain drugs and equipment that are needed and a public health emergency. while surgical and 95's are eligible for thiss protection, standard and 95's are not. that does not make sense. it does not make sense for two reasons. first, these devices are the same when it comes to protecting against airborne contaminants. like we are dealing with for coronavirus. and second, the cdc has issued guidance, listing standard and 95's among the recommended products for use in this emergency. that makes it more difficul

when it comes to the healthcare surge, we're hearing from the front lines, my colleagues, healthcare workers that they don't have the personal protective equipment that they need. we're worried about critical medical materials so there's a lot of material as well as equipment being deployed to areas, such as new york city right now that is a concern over the next several days. we don't want any situation in the united states just like wuhan, china, experienced or northern italy experienced, but i think the most important i think development is all americans really focusing on social distancing, and it's really these community mitigation measures that are extremely. i mentioned that on average if nothing is done, every 1 person will transmit the virus to 2 to 3. what we're trying to do is reduce that ratio all the way down to less than 1 because then we can slow the epidemic and we know this works. data from seattle just a couple of weeks ago showed that social distancing interventions, canceling mass gatherings, school closures, teleworking, all of this reduces contact rates and a st

in a healthcare crisis.rom your understanding, if you lose a job, you might get this payment, but you won't get healthcare? is that your understanding of what will happen? well, that is the facts in the states. now, our union, we'll get along. we make sure of that. some benevolent employers have extended healthcare, but that is a rarity. so in the states, if you have employer—based healthca re, you lose your insurance the last day of the month you get laid off. so, if you get laid off yesterday, you're out of insurance come april 1st. there will be millions of people like that, and yet congress has not addressed that issue at all. the direct payment, though, of $1,200 to adults, that will surely help people not necessarily live well, but simply to get through the next few weeks and months, the worst period of the crisis, until potentially the industries can open up again. oh, no, $1,200 is nothing. if you want to pay rent in any major metropolitan us city, it's more than that. and if you have to go and get m

the entire cruise ship we would swamp the healthcare system locally so that is our counterbalancing challenge for the cdc to make those local arrangements with the coast guard has all the time we are handling them one at a time but it is with the eye not to bring ashore virus spread that is why we've warned americans not to g go. >> we have a lot of international flights. >> what would it take for you to do the same thing to restrict travel out of china? >> of course that was taken literally in the world's epicenter still the largest number of cases in the world we don't see anything like that developing to that scale korea and italy are picking them up very fast because when you take a snapshot of today's cases it is a three-week lagging indicator of what was already there. we are operating with this virus that hasn't existed for three months a lot of areas we lack knowledge that hurts you right now and that will keep hurting you for a little while. we don't know how long but obviously the challenge is to try to keep americans. >> i don't believe any information coming from china.

home healthcare planning improvement act. it will allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other certified patients as needing home health services.now it's just a position that can do it, even though a physician might not be the primary care provider particularly in rural areas. so that will remove needless to lay in getting medicare patients the home healthcare that they need. that's a critical improvement at a time when our healthcare system is being put to the test. and when people are being told they need to stay in their own homes. to avoid spread of the virus. so the list of benefits that will be felt in communities across the country goes on and on and mister president, it's imperative that we pass this bill tonight. every day, more small businesses are forced to close their doors. every day, americans are losing their jobs and their income. every day, medical professionals are increasingly overwhelmed by the exponential rise in cases. the package we are voting on to advance tonight will bolster our healthc

this is about solving a healthcare crisis. so far he has been notably absent from constructive activity solving this problem . >> can you respond to the question that purnell is set to appear before congress? >> i think the idea of politicizing something that is like the cia and intelligence agencies that have done such amazing work for america and democratic and republican administrations whether it's hw bush, ronald reagan or w bush, whether it's clinton or carter or obama, respected the integrity of these agencies that they could speak truth to power. donald trump is destroying and that will have a great effect on the security of the american people . that's enough. one at a time. [inaudible] i just mentioned it a few times . >> are you comfortable with them? >> i haven't seen what governor cuomo is doing on that specific issue. i heardabout it so i couldn't comment on it . again, i don't know the medical details. i'm sure he relied on a lot of medical people, i wouldn't go to them. thank you everybody . >>. [inaudible conv

and it makes the healthcare professionals' job harder.lease ask me the question. >> i'm not sensationalizing anything. i'm trafficking in facts here. because governors are saying that their states are calling up these suppliers and fema has already purchased everything. >> you are on the front lines, doctor, is the media sensationalizing the needs of healthcare workers across the country? >> i'm trying to be the biggest advocate i can be for healthcare workers on the front lines. so, if that pertains to me, then i'm going to continue to say the things that i am saying on the air, because we do not have all the materials that we need. it's important for the american public to understand and face the folks in politics to understand as well that we are already receiving guidance from the cdc on how do we use our ppe. that is a deviation from the standard of care. normally, in what we would call conventional care, we would wear a different mask for every single patient. we're already being asked to use those for multiple patients if not multi

that is a greater concern for healthcare workers who have heavy exposure. for the general public, we should be wearing masks on the order of scarves or ban ddannas not to protect ourselves but it may trap anything we're carrying if we're carriers or infected. >> fair enough. >> dr. gounder before you go, the other question i often get and i'm sure you as well is what are the next couple of weeks going to look like? we hear of a ramp ing up of cases. what should people at home be expecting? >> i think we should be expecting to hear the death toll is going to be increasing. i think we should expect to hear that healthcare workers are going to be getting sick and frankly dying from this. and that hospitals are going to be overwhelmed. and possibly having to turn away patients. i think that is something that we should all anticipate in the coming weeks. >> that's astonishing. the wall street journal this morning, big hospital here in new york, deciding who should get ventilators and who should not, but to turn away patients, that could be a reality in weeks in

broad strokes in the healthcare system.we have a system that is 90% privatized, running on limited margins in terms of probability, limited surge, that surge capacity will be tested to the limit but that is one area in terms of hospital health care systems, a major vulnerability. the other one, critical infrastructure, really about the people at the state and local level land serious issues in terms of the number of people willing to get involved in the business. i call the rodney dangerfield of medicine, they get no respect. when they do everything right nothing happens. a circumstance that does require a little more nuance effort to promote, incentivize that. the third is a different infrastructure for medical countermeasure development. we talked about domestic reduction of vaccines. if we could expand that let's make sure we have the right vaccines, great jobs for americans in many parts of the country, innovation in healthcare. we are doing some of that to address issues related to the supply chain that have to be addr

that the healthcare system is rather underfunded in certain areas.this crisis. now, a whole batch of test kits were imported from china for use this week, and it turns out that many of those, one batch of those, is faulty or it's not as good as the government had hoped. so there's been a diplomatic issue today between china and spain over these kits, which the government had hoped would improve testing. so they're having to turn to other imports of test equipment in order to improve that aspect of their management of the crisis. let's get some of the day's other news: japan has warned coronavirus will become rampant after a surge in tokyo. the country has banned people entering from europe, and the government has set up a task force exploring a possible state of emergency, although tokyo says there are no plans for one yet. india has announced a $22.6 billion economic stimulus plan that provides direct cash transfers and food assistance to millions of people hit by the country's lockdown due to coronavirus. india has recorded 649 infections and 13 de

i put it to him that the safety of healthcare workers is becoming a major issue. we noticed it coming out of wuhan, the chinese reported that in the epidemic in wuhan there were more than 1,000 healthcare workers infected, with six deaths, and about 16%, about 1a.8%, were seriously ill and many required icu admission so that was a wake—up call that our healthcare workforce is highly to this virus and infection. it occurred to us here in the united states, and of course locally, that things good full down quickly if large numbers of the healthcare workforce went down and couldn't fight this infection, and the snowball effect of it becoming both demoralising and if healthcare workers feel they're not being adequately protected... we are worried things could break down and collapsed very quickly, and we've been writing and speaking about this for the last couple of days and then, of course, right on cue, within 2a hours of this, we've had two healthcare workers in california now infected according to reports. this is going to be an area of extreme vulnerability here

that number does not include county hospitals or -- or healthcare labs around the nation.me 15,000 in number. and among the number of the more than 195,000 that have been fested, it's -- tested it's important to remember that only have tested positive for the coronavirus. we continue to urge state and local health authorities to contact fema for all the latest developments and innovations in testing, but we want to remind americans as dr. fauci will emphasize in a moment, if you don't have symptoms, don't do a test. it is another way that the american people can make sure that we are preserving the resources that our healthcare workers need to minister and to support those who are dealing with the coronavirus and other illnesses. in a moment, pete gainer will detail efforts at fema since president's national emergency declaration. we have fema in the lead, stood up coordination center as the president said and working closely, literally hour by hour through fema processing requests from states most impacted like new york, washington state and california and we will continu

they don't have the money to go to healthcare.o you're saying right now in the middle of a crisis, but you know what? last year at least 30,000 people died in america because they didn't get healthcare when they should, because we don't have universal coverage. i think that's a crisis. one out of five people in america cannot afford the prescription drugs they need. they suffer. some die. i consider that a crisis. bottom line is we need a simple system, which exists in canada, exists in countries all over the world, and that is if you are an american, you get the healthcare you need, end of discussion. we can save huge sums of money doing that. the trick is, do we have the guts to take on the healthcare industry, some of which is funding the vice president's campaign. do we have the courage to take on the executives at the prescription drug industry. some of whom are funding his campaign. dana: vice president biden. mr. biden: look, this is a national crisis. i don't want to get this into a back and forth in terms of our politics