doesn't have a free market for healthcare. half of u.s. healthcare spending is by government. most of the rest is impacted by government policies. as the role in healthcare has expanded prices soar. by contrast inflation-adjusted prices typically decline while quality improves. some areas of healthcare are exceptional compared to others. too often however this is a key problem for example the aca coverage to increase federal health spending through medicaid for the life expectancy after the aca the life expectancy was lower than in 2013. there's too much government bureaucracy in healthcare. despite the good intentions and prevent providers needs. the government mis- manages the programs and last year reported annual federal or $100 billion. people secure better prices by not using health insurance. one study estimated 40% cheaper for healthcare services where its limited the prices have declined and moving forward keep these principles in mind the policy changes always have unintended consequences. we should evaluate outcomes. for example many proponents could find a usual so

healthcare system. i would like to remind members that we've established an e-mail address distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions or other written materials the members might want to offers barbara hearing today and if the members would like to submit the materials, please send them to the e-mail address that is planet in the previously distributed it to your office and circulate the materials to members of the staff as quickly as we possibly can and all members please mute your microphones and when you're not speaking in this will help prevent technical issues and you can unmute yourself any time you seek recognition in this hearing will explore the is is a world of immigrant physicians in the position of general and specialized healthcare in the united states. access to high-quality healthcare long winded great importance throughout the united states and fortunately, for many, access to healthcare has been elected due to a scarcity of physicians in their areas. our immigration sy

i, but let's talk about healthcare. you know, we are all united by the difficult reality that we're going to have a loved one or we ourselves are going to face a serious health scare in our lives. healthcare is an absolute necessity. it is a fundamental human right. and this pandemic has illustrated the importance of quick and easy access to life-saving cures and preventive medicines, right? but the question remains, if we can make covid vaccines widely available and free at the point of use, why can't we do the same for other cures and treatments? and we still have despite all of our efforts 30 million people uninsured. there is just no question that we need medicare for all. a national health program to afford everyone excellent healthcare from when they are born to when they die. so mr. secretary, you are an economist. you know the u.s. spent $4.1 trillion on healthcare in 2020 according to the data from the department of health and human services. and that means that healthcare spending accounts for nearly one fifth

bipartisan healthcare with resilience act. thank you, again, for the opportunity to testify regarding the critical importance of physician immigration to the united states healthcare system. >> dr. kora you're up next, you have five minutes. >> chair nadler, ranking member, mcclintock, honorable members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to offer my perspective on an issue i understand firsthand as an immigrant physician serving in rural and underserved areas. the united states is in the midst of a healthcare workforce crisis. we are facing an ever-growing shortage of doctors exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic. the reality is this healthcare worker shortage existed before the pandemic and will continue to harm communities, particularly rural, and under-served communities absent congressional action i came to the united states in 2001, completed my residency in internal medicine nephrology, on j-1 visa, then had to either return to india two years before applying for a new visa or apply for a conrad 30 program wh

as you mentioned, the administrative web and complexity is a wall to access healthcare. it is a wall that people have to climb over to access healthcare and as we mentioned, these are very vulnerable people, living in poverty, some of the people with limited health literacy, some people with limited commuter proficiency and it is, and that wall is insurmountable for some. and these are the people that need care the most. these are the people that want to be at home living with family and their friends and these are the people that are unfortunate unfortunately stuck behind this wall, for example if they need medical equipment to be at home and have to call two different insurance programs, they have to sometimes wait to be denied by the medicare program before they can ask the medicaid program, you know, can you cover this mid , medical equipment my doctors and therapists say i need to to be safe so i can get around my home safely, so i don't have to fall in my home? you know, the two different programs sometimes, as well, in getting payments for their hospital care and

rather than solely looking at advances in healthcare. it's useful to examine trends in how people have answered some fundamental questions with what they knew. each artifact tells some piece of the story of how it's users approached or answered one or more of these questions. perhaps the most basic of these questions is this what causes sickness and what causes health? mainstream scientific understanding has not only changed over time but has gone through periods of expansion and contraction supporting either one underlying cause of disease such as unbalanced tumors or invading microorganisms or diverse causes including vitamin deficiency and pollutants. meanwhile cultural and religious practices home remedies and sales pitches provided alternative theories many of which appeared to their adherence to counterbalance the flaws of mainstream science. are related question is this how do we solve health problems that have been identified when knowing causes them isn't enough. often it becomes an engineering problem literally in the sense of

they say that 31 attacks on healthcare have been documented, including 24 on healthcare facilities.s, 34 injuries. so joining me now is a spokesperson for the world health organization. so glad to have you on. thank you very much. this is a very important story and thank you for the work that you do. these attacks on ukraine's hospitals and ambulances are heartbreaking. you are there on the ground. how dire is the situation right now with all this destruction on ukraine's healthcare systems? >> thank you very much for having me. some 1,000 health facilities are in the areas where control has changed or in the vicinity of conflict lines. so in these areas that are under attack, there are increased number of people who are injured who need trauma care. in many areas, it is difficult access to -- to -- to healthcare facilities. either because of insecurity or because of damaged infrastructure. and on top of it, we have these horrible attacks on healthcare that simply must stop. attacks on a healthcare are not only a violation of international humanitarian law. but they are also deprivi

and with those funding with healthcare. that which i believe can transform the services we talked about. and where they nearly have 25 percent so far of the community services given to children. and there's a lot more we can do. and then to highlight the importance of the comprehensive community clinics. particularly underserved communities. >> thank you for that question. >> and those are key components of the mental health continuum. and those and with limited numbers of providers it is vitally important to address equity to have that is culturally competent and and then academic centers like the children's hospital and so we should be able to provide gaps where they exist in the eclinic's. and that not what it should be but they tend to run with a lower number of high cost providers. and then to provide the support to the community. without a strong partnership we will neveror be able to successfully address the concerns of young people in our country. >> i totally agree. we can do this. >> i know my time is running out.

, and access to healthcare. had healthcare disparities in the quality of care that you were able to get and then covid hit and those disparities are too big to ignore because of who's pabeing impacted. i would love for you to talk about ouhow those disparities manifested themselves in santa ana during the itpandemic and what steps you've taken to try to address them as a result of covid. >> while give you specific examples. when the vaccine was delivered, the state sent the vaccine inventory to the counties sothe county could deliver them to the city . here in santaana , we knew that the epicenter of the pandemic was here inour city. unfortunately vaccines were going to other parts of the county . more affluent communities, more white communities and that's when i think the tide turned. when everybody especially me started shouting at the top of my lungs we have to get the vaccine delivered to where the problem is. so as i said many of our residents are essential workers that couldn't take time off so they were

and then to come to the attention of a healthcare professional.s important for us to understand the impact of social media on our kids. some children when they have encountered content that has made them more conscious of their body image and that transparency matters and we have to make sure if a product provide the data to protect our children. >> what senator warner is talking about is extraordinarily important so we'll try to see if we can get senator menendez and brown and in before. we will see what we can do. >> thank you mr. chairman. and the maternal instinct of early childhood home is evidence-based program that supports pregnant women and young families the multiyear support is critical to have their lives healthier to benefit childhood learning it also has parents through mental health screenings to communicate community-based resources. so how can we further support the program so more young people are starting off on a strong fitting and young parents including pregnant and parenting frustrated have an additional means of support? >>

i year every day from doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across idaho who are looking to reduce their hours or leave the practice is entirely in the months to come confronted with an unprecedented range of demands. too often, sadly, policy makers have inadvertently added to these challenges and posing bureaucratic requirements into tasks that divert attention from patient care and hinder providers workplace wellness. as we navigate potential policy options, we should look to avenues for grad enhancing flexibility for providers and states as they seek to improve and innovate across the continuum of care. of these and other focal points from encouraging service integration to promoting modernization present opportunities for bipartisan discussions that will enable our healthcare system to serve all americans more effectively. in that spirit, i look forward to your testimony, doctor murthy, and to a timely discussion of mental and behavioral health solutions. thank you again for being here. >> thank you, senator crapo. i was glad you mentioned that telehealth issue becaus

your healthcare decisions rather than doctors.r whoever senator or congressman vote for this bill, we will vote you out! >> there's a bill out of the house of representatives, put together under speaker pelosi's leadership. i'm, i'm, uh... >> (booing) >> i'm, uh, i would not vote for that, there... >> (applauding) >> narrator: with public opinion turning, back in washington, healthcare reform was now imploding, even among democrats. pelosi headed for the white house. >> the political advisers within the white house, rahm emanuel and david axelrod, thought, "it's time to cut our sses, get something small done so we can kind of save face." >> and nancy posi says, "wait a second, we've been trying this for a generation. no, we're not going to do that. we're going to do what we set out to do. and we're going to do as much as we set out to do." >> it was really in this climactic meeting where she said, in front of everyone, "mr. president, i know there are people telling you to take the namby-pamby approach. i'm here to tell you, we ca

>> healthcare generally. eli lilly specifically >> tony zhang? and call debit spreads. >> mike khouw? >> i also like debit spreads call debit spreads in the case of lilly and put debit spread in xlf. >> that does it here for us on "options action. we'll be back here next friday at 5:30 p.m. eastern time. don't go anywhere. "mad money" with jim cramer. >> announcer: this is a paid advertisement for csn. >> you know, many times, i've been out here with a new coin release, and i have asked for a drum roll. and in all honesty, in the past, it's really just been nothing but hyperbole. but this time, i really would like a drum roll. i don't think i'm gonna get one, but i really think i should have one. this is, i think, the singular most important numismatic event certainly of the last quarter century, perhaps in my entire professional career, in terms of interest, in terms of collectibility, in terms of

, or whether they're making healthcare policy. and whether or not the choices end up being good ones. the reasons aren't just about the science. they're by politics, affordability, comfort, and myriad other factors, this way of examining the stories in my book, focusing on the questions people try to answer and how they frame those questions can lead itself to a fairly individualistic lens through history, but it doesn't have to. major historical events and movements ranging from the civil war and world war ii to the industrial revolution and social reforms of the era to attitudes about race and gender were all important driving forces for many of the decisions that people made around healthcare in the stories in my book. however, studying history through questions like how to organize care, how to balance risks, and who gets to have a voice in their own or others' treatment helps us see what we have in common with people who are operating from very different historical and scientific contexts. and with that, i'll close, and i'm h

i have shared a commitment to supporting service members and providing them services, resources healthcareed. the commitment extent a shared drive to adjust extensive medical issues and disability caused by the use burn pits in combat operations. when service members deploy, they expect to takexp risks the wrist should not come from the operations of our own basis and when they do, we must take responsibility for than i look forward to continuing to work together on this president biden prioritized addressing cost of war in the state of the union and again in texas last week. he described a clear cause and s effect of the crisis saying the burn pit that incinerate waste of war, medical and hazardous jet fuel and so much more were dark and big picking not far from where veterans were sleeping. when our troops came home from of the fittest among them, greatest fighting force in the history of the world, too many of them were not the same headaches, numbness, dizziness and cancer. that tells a whole story. men and women who deploy at the peak of physical fitness are fighting to surviveve now.

and - okay on women's healthcare protections, later today the senate is going to go to the central yet urgent question, will this chamber agreed to begin debate on protecting a woman's right to make their own healthcare choice and across tho country, there's a dark dark time for women's reproductive rights, last year, we saw the most abortion restrictions passed by state legislators and single year printed and some of them are almost vicious in the jail anti- tax is what i call vicious vigilantism. in many of these new laws, downright extreme, and effectively extinguishing women's ability to even exercise the rights at all. and an annuity extreme restrictions five partially in the face of public opinion. they also fly in the face of common sense health practices and frankly they fight against common decency himself and the supreme court is drastically restricting his long-established right in the coming months. and so the senate today is going to take action because abortion has never been more at risk in america and indeed this will be the first time the senate takest about on the sta

probably the most insidious masquerade as healthcare professionals or people who are here for you. malehere, and they can't approach you once you're on the lot. male: i love how we also wanna help you. kathryn: so, this woman is just saying to this patient that they use the stem cells from the babies to make medicines. she's talking at this woman, trying to convince her not to have an abortion. male: young lady, turn to jesus. kathryn: the woman who's been approaching patients is retired nurse angela michael. every day she parks her van here and offers free ultrasounds and advice. kathryn: angela, what have you got here? angela michael: well, this is our medical mobile unit. when we saw there was no resources out here in granite city for these young women that were going in there like herds of cattle, i just felt like god called me to get up off my knees and to do something to help them, to see if maybe i could show them their babies, to be a window to the womb. kathryn: so, this is an ultrasound on wheels. angela: yes, absolutely. kathryn: how many women would you get through the van?

and workforce hailed as heroic and value, a vital part of our whole healthcare system. i see in ohio with expanded residential community based outpatient treatment options, fewer fellow citizens need to be institutionalized or place in long-term hospital care. i see an ohio that catches and treats to help at the earliest onset to lessen chances of lifelong challenges. i see and ohio where families get support in their own middle east as well as at school so teachers can teach kids and kids can learn and parents can worry less because all kids in the classroom benefit when every child has the support and physical and mentally healthy and have the ability to live up to their god-given potential. [applause] i see an ohio the harnesses potential of our great research, colleges and universities. to conduct strategic cutting edge research. i see and ohio with fewer emergency room visits and fewer ohioans with mental illness living on the streets. i see an ohio well mental illness is criminalized, pressure on the criminal justice system. the ohio i see, fewer families face the

covid has led to an increase in violence to lgbtqi+ couples and the community has had less active healthcare that we have used the scapegoats to condemn it. in the crisis we have seen a surge of violence against the lgbtqi+ community around the world and here in the united states. for all these reasons, the special envoy to advance the lgbtqi+ persons have a big job ahead and i'm thrilled president biden has appointed the special envoy stearns to this role at usaid. as the former director, she has deep relationships with the groups working in many of the countries struggling with lgbtqi+ violence and discrimination. she also had extensive experience in the difficult and complex issues and is extremely qualified for the work ahead with a deep commitment to human rights and equality so i welcome you today and look forward to a productive discussion and with that i will yield back. >> i will turn to the representative the sponsor of the globe act and longtime champion of the effort to secure the human rights of lgbtqi+ persons at home and abroad. >> thank you very much. thank you for holding th

>> i'm getting more and more interested in the healthcare stocks. healthcare stocks are trading at a discount to what they historically have done and discount to the overall market. you've got merck, pfizer, bristol myers they all have 3%- plus dividends, low pe. now why is that? well people got very excited of course about this economy growing rapidly, but if in fact the fed keeps hiking interest rates at some point it's going to cool so people are going to want to shift to so-called non- cyclical areas two other things play into healthcare stocks favor. one of course is that a lot of healthcare operations were postponed because everything was focused on covid. now people are going back to the non-essential healthcare and so forth, and finally of course if there's a shift in washington, less pressure on anti-healthcare legislation. charles: absolutely and i think a lot of that stuff has been stalled as well. david thank you very much appreciate it. all right folks, the nasdaq is off to the races this week and you know, looks like there's only reall

, healthcare's a tough environment to lock down and secure. are a lot of machines and things and computers to work together and they've been easy targets. for any kind of cyber attackers looking to make a quick buck but you're right i would probably change the playbook and not pay because i doubt you're going to get the password i think another concern would be understanding cyber insurance policies because insurance policies don't always pay out in an act of war. >> real quickly, chris, if they aren't to pay out the ransom, that's the only way people have usually be able to recover from these attacks. what are they supposed to do then >> well, in the white house guidance this morning, they recommended back ups and encryption there may be capabilities that the u.s. government has to crack encryption that we don't know about. >> well, that would be nice and necessary to national security chris, appreciate your time today. thank you so much. >> thanks, kelly >>> shares of tesla soaring more than 26% just since last tuesday as high gasoline price

to the whole country yet we pay the highest prices in the world for healthcare. it's not that the president proposed substantial increase in investment in mental health enormously important, pandemic preparedness they are enormously important and we've got to go further than that and vast majority of the population. , dental and hearing and eyeglasses. the richest country on earth, senior citizens should not have teeth rotting in their mouth. further as a nation, we should understand every major country because, healthcare is an human right not a privilege. private drug companies to make obscene levels. we will have a hearing here in the committee to pass a single-payer program. medicare for all, medicare for all would save the american people in our entire healthcare system, $650 billion each year so i say to my conservative friends worried about the expenditure money, work with us passing medicare for all single-payer programs. healthcare reform must not only address the private health insurance company the pharmaceutical industry. i agree that medicare must ne

what steps can congress take to reduce weight times for urgent mental healthcare? >> thank you so much for the question, senator. i appreciate it. it is the case that once someone, spegs especially a child is under healthcare they do need surveillance and we think adding hospital beds is an answer. it certainly is an opportunity to help emergency services but the the problem has to be addressed offering more outpatient providers that ensure kids never get to that level of crisis. we have the treatments. we have the science to show that it works. we just need more people to administer those treatments and keep kids from getting to that emergency stage. 750 times more funding to make sure we have enough physicians in this country than what we're providing for our entire mental healthcare workforce. if we had that, if we treated the likelihood that one out of every five young woman with will experience a major depressive episode before the age of 25, as we heard, one of every four young people are going to experience severe suicideality, think about what we would do i

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workforce hailed as heroic and valued as a vital part of the healthcare system. icn ohio with residential community based outpatient treatment options, fewer of our fellow citizens need to be institutionalized or placed in long-term health care. catches and tweets mental health problems and addiction at the earliest onset to lessen the chances of lifelong challenges and icn ohio where families get support in the communities as well as at school so teachers can teach kids to learn, parents to worry less. all kids in the classroom benefit when every child has the support, to live up to their god-given potential. i see in ohio, that harnesses the innovative potential of our great research colleges and universities to conduct strategic cutting-edge research. i see and ohio with fewer emergency room visits and fewer ohioans with mental illness living on the streets, where it isn't criminalized, pressure on the criminal justice system. the ohio i see, fewer families face the unimaginable grief of losing a son, daughter, brother, or sister, or parent, to suicide or over

humana a more human way to healthcare. >> neil: all right.uary wholesale inflation. year over year up 10%. wall street welcomed this number because they thought it was going to be worse than that. enter jerry baker, host of the "wall street journal" at least. a cracker jack writer. i think he always trying to be very fair and balanced when he steps back and looks at the inflation rising. he does so again in a very, very well-written piece in today's "wall street journal." he looks at the price of biden's excuses for inflation and how it keeps rising. jerry, the one thing i like about it, you step back and looked at the ukraine war phenomenon. you were very generous to go back a few weeks, long before the war and the uptick in gas price ahead of that. that was indeed a catalyst but it's not the whole story. so when the administration disavows having anything to do with the run-up in prices, that's where you catch him. can you explain the part on them? >> yeah. thanks, neil for those kind words. when joe biden said last week as he did that infl

the nation has turned its back when you are attempting to access care we attempted from the healthcaretutions and throughout those ten years it was always an excuse there is no science or no proof. so myself including many families is that we have to exhaust our life savings just to access doctors like the doctors to be away from our children is time loss that we will never get back not only does it impact the veteran and spouse but the children so to see some momentum it gives us hope. >> but when you say you feel as if our government, our country has turned its back on you and your family and thousands in the same position no veteran should feel that way and no family of a veteran should feel that way. >> you have done a tremendous amount of advocacy to change the rules how veteran on —- veterans must prove they are impacted by the burn pits in order to get care of. i support you in your work on this. i know it is a hard and only journey what you have done remarkable work let me see if i can turn this around. what does it mean to you and other veterans families of the rules were chan

healthcare. a special passion of mine, particularly, because we our investigates after a debacle at the oregon health sciences center because the insurance companies were stalling. and finally i want to just mention what the direction here is, really the lodestar for what is committee has talked about in the past. everybody in america must be able to get the meant 8 health care they need when they need it. that is really the north star here. this morning's hearing will be the first of two that puts special focus on our young people. and before wrapping up i'd like to say because he's not here today i want to thank the senator from south carolina, senator scott who has talked with me at considerable length about the cahoots bill i mentioned and we were able to secure a billion dollars in medicaid for. he's just instrumental in this alliance between mental health people and law enforcement. because both groups want to focus on what they have been trained for. mental health folks focus on mental hea

and then that challenge in terms of healthcare. and then they focus last couple of years from one of the biggest things is affordability. talk about where inflation is today but if you look at ten years ago all the insurance for working class families and then to have very little detectable's and now the average family of four pc hundred dollars out of their pocket maybe they could pay the other half a pay 900. so one of the big things to look at is to be more focused. and then level we're doing right now with the input 7:00 p.m. reactive or proactive with the idea after the election hopefully with the majority is to get back and have a plan to implement in the first six months that is a short term plan but hopefully two years after that there be a more significant plan but healthcare has to be fixed but at the top for me is affordability bankrupting the middle class families still thank you for putting the task force together. >> i'm chairman of the republican policy committee and i hope by now we realize there is a theme that the

advocacy role in healthcare and your successor mrs. clinton has taken a very active role in crafting the policy and crafting the legislation. do you have any advice to mrs. clinton as she takes on that added role in healthcare? i think i would tell her. to just keep working. i applied how efforts and those of typical having a first lady. you realize that there is some influence in that position and i applaud those who take advantage of that. and i would just say ditto. this is for you. um, i think that when my husband was serving as president of the united states, i felt that i could a sounding board. i had the feeling that. as i went about to public functions i could. hear what the people were feeling and hear what they were saying and carry it back to him as the what what was out there for him to take in and kind of combine and what he was hearing from his cabinet because i think a president is often. so protected by those people around him and his cabinet that he doesn't have a really good feel for the common everyday monday day to

advocacy role in healthcare and your successor mrs. clinton has taken a very active role in crafting the policy and crafting the legislation. do you have any advice to mrs. clinton as she takes on that added role in healthcare? i think i would tell her. to just keep working. i applied how efforts and those of typical having a first lady. you realize that there is some influence in that position and i applaud those who take advantage of that. and i would just say ditto. this is for you. um, i think that when my husband was serving as president of the united states, i felt that i could a sounding board. i had the feeling that. as i went about to public functions i could. hear what the people were feeling and hear what they were saying and carry it back to him as the what what was out there for him to take in and kind of combine and what he was hearing from his cabinet because i think a president is often. so protected by those people around him and his cabinet that he doesn't have a really good feel for the common everyday monday day to