a 2017 report from the center for medicare and medicaid services shows that the average american paidore than twice the per capita average for health care than any other developed nation. >> there are a lot of problems in the health care system. it is way too expensive. part of the problem is prescription drugs are way too expensive, the cost of health care generally is a problem. >> according to a recent report from the organization for economic cooperation, development, americans on average spend about $1200 on prescription drugs in a single year, which is more than what is spent in any other developed nation. >> so why are these drugs so expensive? a big factor in the cost of these drugs is the arduous task of experimentation as well as clinical trials. >> well, when you think about why drugs cost so much and why innovative drugs cost that much, it really is the fact that the drug development cost is so expensive and so risky and unpredictable. the question about how drug prices are set is an interesting one in the united states. much of drug development is about failure. in other

former head of medicare and medicaid services under president obama.mentioned host of the new podcast "in the bubble." that three-part strategy is incredibly practical and both ambitious and overdue and necessary. i hope a lot of people are listening to you, to that, tonight. to give us hope about this crisis. but, also, i hope people who can do something like this are listening to you, too. if they won't do it at the federal government, every state should start doing this themselves. thank you so much. >> thank you, rachel. >> much more to get to tonight. stay with us. these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. that's a d

there's now, just today, new guidance from the center medicare and medicaid service about patients with nursing homes. we're also looking to contract with a company that will help us and serve as almost like a nursing home s.w.a.t. team to go out and help a nursing home that might be having difficulty and helping them with their infection control. we'll do everything we can to protect the health and safety of nursing home staff and nursing home residents. >> secretary, from wnep and wbre, questions about the increase of cases in the hazelton area. in terms of outreach, how do you plan to continue to reach the hispanic community and then also in terms, are you looking at potentially temporary field hospitals or mass testing sites? >> all of our materials have been translated into spanish. we have a publicity campaign about the things we've been talking about. about staying home, about the importance of hand washing, we'll put the information on mac about that. we'll be reaching out to hispanic community to try to protect really everyone in pennsylvania against this deadly virus. >> as a

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former head of medicare and medicaid services under president obama.new podcast in the bubble. that three-part strategy is incredibly practical and both ambitious and overdue and necessary. i hope a lot of people are listening to you, to that, tonight. to give us hope about this crisis. but, also, i hope people who can do something like this are listening to you, too. if they won't do it at the federal government, every state should start doing this themselves. thank you so much. >> thank you, rachel. >> much more to get to tonight. stay with us. [ flatulence ] happy birthday? if we don't stop her, who will? we need to go undercover. hey, only rock trolls are allowed here. barracuda! cool. who wants to party? without smiling. you should be mad they gave this guy a promotion. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad.

to help answer that question i'm joined by former head of the centers for medicare and medicaid servicessenior fellow of the institute for health care improvement who knows this field as well as anyone. let's just start with the basics here. i talked to someone i know at a new york city hospital that's been doing a ton of covid patients that talked about them losing half a billion dollars a month and this is hospitals all over the country hemorrhaging money. why are they losing so much money? >> they are getting squeezed two ways. their costs have gone up. they have to invest capital. hire more staff. they are converting bed spaces that have not been beds before. that takes a lot of money and revenues are down because the normal businesses they depend on for revenue, the elective surgeries, the work of the emergency rooms for non-covid conditions is how hospitals get by financially and that revenue is gone. the other part of the problem is under insurance. we have a frail and chaotic insurance system in this country. we're trying to put patches on it in the covid epidemic but it's coming

able to to make prescriptions but yes in the month of march alone the center for medicare and medicaid services essentially said that they saw dozens of new applicants who showed up with these new billing codes in order for billing to go through so yes there could absolutely be some people who take advantage of it no doubt there will be they'll be they'll be some forms of medicare medicaid fraud that come from this also in some cases doctors essentially would be consulting with patients and it allows them if you handle this the right way to be able to bill for things that you shouldn't necessarily be billing for but i think the. it's a smaller issue you know there's always fraud but i think the good in this case would significantly outweigh the bad in terms of people who really do need the help or even the changes for example of there's a ph versus a doctor actually seeing you and the doctor actually taking the time to see you either way i definitely create some issues here with what the billing do you really see this becoming a possible new permanent alternative for maybe some days that dr dom

during the obama administration, andy slavik served at the head of centers for medicare and medicaid services, overseeing health care coverage for 100 million americas and overseeing the type of coverage that millions of americans use for their stays in hospitals. and he helped to repair the broken enrollment of the obama care web site and andy slavik knows how to approach the seemingly overwhelming and impossible to fix and we called him and he is the person i would like to most like to talk to first about what i find as a middle of the night sit up and worry about it issue. joining us, former head of the centers for medicare and medication service, the host of the new podcast "in the bubble" thanks for taking the time to be here tonight. thank you for your expertise. >> thank you, rachel. thank you for your focus on this really incredible important story. >> well, let me ask you if there is anything that i have said about, you can probably tell i feel emotional about it, i'm head up about it, and it literally has been keeping me up. in the way that i have been talking about it, just as a la

would be moving people into facilities that could. >> andy slavitt, former head of medicare and medicaid services president obama. as i mentioned, host of the new podcast in the bubble. that three part strategy is incredibly practical and both ambitious and overdue and necessary. i hope a lot of people are listening to that tonight to give us hope about this crisis, but also i hope people can do something like this are listening to you too. if they won't do it at the federal government, every state should start doing this themselves. andy, thank you so much. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right. much more to get to tonight. stay with us. [ gasps ] is now in your home. pinky promise. ♪ a pinky promise. dang. 450-degree oven, to box, to you, know that from our it's our policy that your pizza is never touched once it comes out of the oven. and we're taking extra steps, like no contact delivery, to ensure it. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis... little things, can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with

she heads the center for medicare and medicaid services and is part of the coronavirus task force.hank you so much for joining us, very grateful for your time. do you think your agency is doing enough, did enough in assisting seniors during the crisis? >> well, first of all, let me just say that our hearts and minds go out to the nursing home patients and their families. this has been an enormously difficult time. and nursing home residents were amongst the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. that's why we took early action, putting out infection control policies, reminding nursing homes of those long-standing guidelines. and we've continued to update that information based on the latest science and information. >> i'd like to take you back to early march. you received a letter from congress raising concerns that nursing homes were especially at risk from covid-19 outbreaks. the letter from senator ron weiden and richard neil accused the administration of previously weakening safety standards to put nursing homes at greater risk to outbreaks. what's your response to that? >> everyt

going to have to be very very careful you were saying seated at the center for medicare and medicaid services by seam of arma and she's a member of trump's coronavirus task force you talk to her i do and how is she comfortable how she doing. well look everybody is working incredibly incredibly hard you know this is a crisis that i'd like to think you know doesn't separate us as republicans and democrats the virus spreads equally between democrat and republican as it does in a party so it should be a moment that people work together on the best ideas. and i think that's happening in a lot of ways i i'm not going to be pollyannish and tell you that there's no politics or no differences there are of course but. i think that you know people want to save the largest number of lives possible then they're working and the right thing in the right direction and i don't envy the task of anybody in the administration right now and that's why i'm even though i'm of a different political party i pledge to do everything i can to help them. you recently launched a podcast call in the bubble with the help of

this pandemic and the circumstances caused you to more strongly consider expanding medicare and medicaid services? you previously said all options are on the table. are you changing because of what happened here. gov. ivey: we are concerned about the health of all her citizens, wherever they may live. at the same time, it would be irresponsible to think about expanding medicaid just for the sake of expanding medicaid, without having a complete and honest discussion about the source of stable funding to pay, etc. it is an option. i'm aware the interest is there. there is a lot of exploring that has to be done on how you pay for it. reporter: are you exploring finding a stable source of funding? gov. ivey: we are trying to make a plan when we can get our people back to work. yes, sir. reporter: around the world -- in yourtions -- i plans to restart the economy, what is the factor of -- [inaudible] gov. ivey: that is the reason we want to be sure we are working as soon as we can come about as smart as we can, to reopen the economy, because we could have a resurgence of this virus even this fall we h

medicaid for underprivileged americans and at the president's direction the center for medicare and medicaid services given unprecedented waivers for states to expand coverage for coronavirus testing and treatment. >> the president stepped in and told john roberts it is a question and the administration is still looking at it. >> potentially good news, patients to have recovered from the about with covid-19 are donating plasma loaded with antibodies which may help current patients are trying to fight the disease themselves. >> we are undertaking an exciting procedure where we have a recovered positive covid-19 donor who will be donating plasma to be transfused into a patient in our icu who is covid-19 positive. >> let's talk about how this development and others may help in the fight against the virus with medical contributor dr. nicole saphier and senator and doctor bill cassidy, good to have you with us. while we wait for a vaccine which is at least 12-18 months away there are discussions of many other things we could be doing, the plasma from people who have recovered and have the antibodies, very

joining us now is the former acting administrator for the center for medicare and medicaid services, andy slavitt. always good to see you. these numbers are probably a lot higher than we're even reporting, because the tracking of this has been inconsistent and not all of these patients have been able to get tested for covid. there are a lot of nursing home patients who have died, who they believe were positive, but never got that test. >> right. well, thanks for calling attention to this and for all of us who have loved ones in nursing homes, this is incredibly important. you think about, who's in nursing homes today, we've got about 1.5 million people in nursing homes around the country. these are people that were born right around and after the depression. many of them are veterans of foreign wars. they were part of the people that built this country. and we are -- we owe them a -- to their last day, a debt in this country. and in 2017, to great fan fair, i might add, the trump administration decided that they were -- announced that they were going to not enforce the regulations th

. >> sandra: coming up for how the centers for medicare and medicaid services are giving billions ofollars to health care providers. we will be speaking to the administrator of that agency about whether hospitals are actually getting what they need to. plus, detroit's mayor with some positive news on the outbreak in that city. >> the reason this is flattening out is because of you. the people of this city have been honoring social distancing. every place i have gone today i have seen people wearing masks. it's so encouraging. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- metastatic breast cancer, as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letroz

we have it for underprivileged americans, the center for medicare and medicaid services have given unprecedentedices to expand services for coronavirus testing and treatment. >> the president stepped in and told her john roberts that the administration is still looking at it. >> shannon: i think you very much. potentially good news comes along tonight, patients who have recovered from the belt with covid-19 are now donating plasma loaded with antibodies which may help current patients who are trying to fight the disease themselves. >> today we are undertaking a very exciting procedure where we have a recovered positive covid-19 donor. he will be donating plasma to be transfused into outpatient and are i see you covid-19 positive >> let's talk about this development and others may help. senator and dr. bill cassidy of louisiana. good to have both of you with us us. >> hey shannon, thanks for having us. >> shannon: it while we wait for a vaccine, which is at least 12-18 months away, let's talk about the other things we could be doing now, essentially those who have recovered and have the antibodie

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practices and particles directed by the centers for disease control, centers for medicare and medicaid services, state and county guidance to protect the frail and vulnerable residents entrusted to our care area canyon springs caters to residents needing care after hospitalization as well as those with dementia or alzheimer's. 199 residents are housed at this east san jose location on any given day. >> there is tremendous concern among the medical repression and the politicians that the next front will be nursing homes and prisons and other areas where people are confined and can't leave. >> officials say stricter protocols are in place, among them, more stringent is the restrictions, screening of staff and essential visitors, and more frequent monitoring of residents conditions. canyon springs officials say our top priority remains the health and well-being of everyone in our facility. >> this is essentially a war, and it's a matter of triaging every situation, every patient. triaging your facilities and equipment to put to the best use. >> dr. mark schwartz says there are signs that the infec

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>> joining us now is a former acting administrator for the center of medicare and medicaid services under president obama. thanks so much for being here. what of that? how is it possible that florida saw better numbers than other states with similar size populations? >> one thing we've learned over the last few weeks, that we're still learning is the data comes in, is that it actually isn't so much the politicians or the governors' actions at this point in time as it is the citizens of state. florida, we can think about it as miami-dade -- florida is one of the lowest amounts of mobilization, social mobilization in the state as measured by google. that means people have been staying home despite what we see of the scenes on the beaches and despite what we've seen from governor desantis. i think we've got an older community, we've got communities that are largely rural throughout the state and they have been, like the rest of the country, been following the stay-at-home order. hopefully this will stay. i would be cautious as governor i any state of taking a victory lap and nobody has immun

adapting practices and protocols from the centers for disease control, centers for medicare and medicaid services, and city guidance. canyon springs caters to residents needing care after hospitalization, as well as those with dementia or alzheimer's. >> i think there is tremendous concern among the medical profession and politicians that the next run will be nursing homes and prisons in other areas where people are confined and can't leave. >> canyon spring officials say stricter protocols are in place, among them were stringent visitor restrictions, screening of staffs and more frequent monitoring of physicians.>> this is essentially a war, and it's a matter of triaging every patient and the use of your facility and equipment to put to the best use.>> dr. mark schwartz says there's signs that the infection rate in the bay area starting to slow because of things like people staying inside, social distancing and sanitizing hands. as for canyon spring, they do not answer the question if they considered closing due to the short term or what families should do if they cannot get their loved one and

whenever they have coronavirus cases that's according to the centers for medicare and medicaid services they also note the government will be paying laps to go to nursing homes to test people. the new requirement will support the cdc's efforts to have surveillance and contact tracing around the country in the communities that show the spread of the coronavirus starting in nursing homes. >>alameda county is one of the hardest hit counties when it comes to the current coronavirus pandemic those living in the county will soon have to abide by new mask requirements. earlier today we heard from the public health officer doctor eric upon who says people should not be wearing certain and 95 masks went out in public. >>some of these and 95 respirators that we use and the health care setting have these valves. i'm on the outside and we don't want those to be won in the public because these allow for. officer what we just talked to a bailout and the person wearing them to expel drop words so while on one hand, i'm more comfortable than the traditional and 95 respirators these are not good to wear

during the white house briefing, the centers for medicare and medicaid service announced new transparency measures to track the virus. one of the policies forces nursing homes to report cases directly to the cdc so the government can start collecting data on the virus in those facilities. a second measure calls for nursing homes to inform residents and their families of covid-19 cases in their facilities. the move comes after several outbreaks in bay area nursing homes. we have reported with the reported cases. you can find that on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> take a live look at capitol hill right now, where a deal to help small business own coerce be announced in a matter of hours. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says the white house and congress are close to a deal that would provide an additional $300 billion to small businesses. another 50 billion would go to disaster loans. the original loan program worth $350 billion ran out of money last thursday, just two weeks after it was launched. the new plan has strong bipartisan support. >> we're continuing to negotiate with the democr

the care they need and allows hospitals to provide servicesff site centers for medicare and medicaid services administrator seema verma says the agency is changing the rules to pay for patient's treatment outside of hospitals and clinics fema is already helping expand hospital space in states across the country. us as this initiative adds to the work they have done and allows more involvement on the local level we want to do is empower local communities to start thinking about this and to use the resources that they already have in their community the sienna swimmers will allow hospitals to transfer an infected patients to these sites making room for those testing positive for the coronavirus as far as filling these new spaces with supplies. berman says they want to make sure health care workers have the tools ey need to save lives team has set a very special for some people that are working to find supplies and then we've also seen a great response from the private sector in the united states. i think we're hearing every day about companies that are stepping forward to prode ventilators we h

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don't go to the centers for medicare and medicaid services which are responsible for overseeing long-term care facilities in this country. they're just not doing it. they're not working on this at all. so it's find your local paper. browse around. see what you can figure out in terms of the numbers. see what you can figure out in terms of who might need help. that's all we've got. but like i said, this is a bad -- this has been a particularly bad day in terms of the american coronavirus epidemic. i will tell you in terms of the bad political response here, while what i was just describing is unfolding in western pennsylvania today, and the local paper there is demanding answers from the trump administration and not getting them, well, that's happening in pennsylvania today, today in the state capital in pennsylvania republican state legislators were angling to try to overturn the stay-at-home order put in place in pennsylvania by democratic governor tom wolf. because sure, seems like things are going great in pennsylvania. did i mention that they are re-freezing the local ice arena, becau

he was actsing administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services during the obama administrationank you for being with us. we're in the middle of a pandemic. dr. bright was just moved off. how does that affect us? >> we like to talk about people like tom brady, i think he needs to understand what he just did is the equivalent of pulling tom brady off the football field in the fourth quarter of an elimination game when you're down by two touchdowns. dr. bright has worked his entire career for these moments. he has been studying how to combat and respond to infectious diseases. he's taken offer the flu vaccine and led the agency that we're counting on most now. but to pull him off the field, so to speak, that critical juncture is an enormous loss and something we should be concerned about. these are the kind of people that are going to have to help us solve very hard problems and i just can't understand why he's not on the field right now. >> what are the questions you have to ask the president if you were able ask them? >> well, you know, i think what i would like to suggest to th

>> well, as andy slavid, president obama's former director of medicare and medicaid services, this is the worst thing in 100 years. who is in charge? is it the task force jared kushner and his skunk works. and the provisions of the $2 million stimulus act that was just passed is under question. this may be a public health crisis, but i've been working in public health for 30 years, i recognize it as a political crisis first and foremost. south korea and germany come to mind, they have been doing much better than we have, it's been a colossal leadership failure that brought us to this press pieccp. there's a great "washington post" piece today, but a lot of time we get this engagement from the white house podium. we get headlines like governors disagree or experts are concerned rather than challenging the president and his actions. we need to know what's going on, how and why responses are still failing and who is responsible. we all want this over sooner rather than later, but the status quo makes it far worse. we need to know what is going on in the white house, within the cdc, that

stay with me, steve, i want to bring in andy slavitt who ran medicare and medicaid services and a doctor from new york who is one of our medical contributors. good to see you both. dr. roy, your views. >> ari, good to be with you again. a few things that are still deeply concerning to medical and public health professionals. these outbreaks of protests that are happening all over the country, it's deeply concerning, because as i've stated many times before, this is an infectious pathogen that does not discriminate based on political affiliation or color of skin or age. this is going to affect all people from all walks of life. we've already been seeing that, right? so the concern that we all have on the medical side is that one, two, three weeks from now, we're going to see, we anticipate we're going to see a surge of patients going into the hospitals in these various communities, whether it be michigan, mississippi, texas, wherever. and that's really concerning. until we have widespread testing and contact tracing, we just don't know what the scope of the problem is in terms of who's in

. >>> i'm joined now by the former acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services andy slavit. he has a new podcast, in the bubble, designed to help american families through the covid-19 crisis. let's start with the antibody tests. i was struck this week when a person i know texted me a link to antibody tests available on amazon. i thought, well -- wow, that's fast. i didn't realize these were happening. now it seems there is a wide variety of quality in the antibody tests that are out there. >> well, i think -- let me start with antibody tests. it is an interesting spot because they have been asked to let their standards go a little bit lower, approve a lot of emergency authorization tests, get a lot of things in the market. and you have a lot of buyer beware now, antibody tests that are only 50% accurate in telling you whether or not you have the antibody. 50% doesn't do us any good. so i think they're going to have to find a right balance. to the point of the regular testing, the diagnostic testing, i think the trump administration is actually saying something

he deployed mall 8,000 of our inspectors, center for medicare and medicaid services to dedicate all of their time to ensuring compliance with those new higher standards. we have spoken about nursing home issues with governors around the country. frankly there are governors around the country doing remarkable work with nursing homes. you mentioned governor bryan camp. he used the national guard in georgia. he deployed them to nursing homes to do cleaning and to disinfect areas of those nursing homes. to your point about testing, if you look carefully at the guidelines, open up america, you will see in phase one the level of testing that we contemplate is first that we want to be able to test anyone who has the symptoms that may be coronavirus and be able to test them quickly. secondly we want to do the kind of contact tracing. dr. redfield and his team are deploying cdc teams in every state in america to be able to find out everyone that that person has been in contact with and test them. if you look right underneath it, what we are directing states to do is be prepared to deploy testin

he deployed all 8,000 of our inspectors, the center for medicare and medicaid services, to dedicate all of their time to ensuring compliance with their new higher standards. we've spoken about nursing home issues with governors around the country. and frankly there are governors around the country that have done remarkable work with nursing homes. you mentioned governor brian kemp, he actually used the national guard in georgia, he deployed them to nursing homes to do cleaning and to disinfect areas of those nursing homes, and it's a tremendous service. but to your point about testing, if you look carefully at the guidelines, open up america again, you will see that in phase i, the level of testing that we contemplate is first that we want to be able to test anyone who has the symptoms that may be coronavirus and be able to test them quickly. secondly, we want to do the kind of contact tracing, and dr. redfield and his team are deploying cdc teams in every state in america to be able to find out everyone that that person has been in contact with and test them. but if you look right unde

he deployed all 8,000 of our inspectors, center for medicare and medicaid services to dedicate all their time to ensuring compliance with those new higher standards. we've spoken about nursing home issues with governors around the country. and frankly, there are governors around the country that have done remarkable work with nursing homes. you mentioned governor kemp. he actually used the national guard in georgia. he deployed them to nursing homes to do cleaning and to disinfect areas of those nursing homes, and it's a tremendous service. but to your point about testing, if you look carefully at the guidelines, open up america again, you will see that in phase one, the level of testing that we contemplate is first that we want to be able to test anyone who has the symptoms that may be coronavirus. and be able to test them quickly. secondly, we want to do the kind of contact tracing and dr. redfield and his team are deploying cdc teams in every state in america to be able to find out everyone that person has been in contact with and test them. if you look under that, what we're directin