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Billionaire. This is just over an hour. Mr. Clinton we have here a fascinating opening panel. I want to bring them out and talk about, not only the disruptions in a positive way that they have made in health care, why they do it and how they measure success in terms of people. So, let me first introduced the panelists. I would like to bring out Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of theranos. She dropped out of stanford to start this company, a blood Analytical Company that has more than 500 people em...

How can we enable you to work with customers in a way in which you are capable of doing working together to make sure that we are providing the best Consumer Experience . And the best overall experience. I think in many ways, the Insurance Company and hospitals are butting heads, because incentives are not aligned, but hopefully that will change. President clinton it is interesting you gave that example, because that is another version of what elizabeth said about Early Intervention through tech...

And looked, i believe, more closely and probingly at effectiveness and again concluded that the program came up short. But those two questions, what is the Legal Foundation and what is the effectiveness despite all of that structure i believe they never really got in 10 years of this program adequate attention. I want to take the prerogative of the chair to observe in response to senator whitehouses point that none of the oversight was adversarial in nature. Which is why i propose the constituti...

Our senators with your constant love and faithfulness, answering them when they call to you in prayer. Help them to make every effort to do your will on earth, giving you their doubts and fears as they trust you to order their steps. May they realize that weakness provides an opportunity for your strength to be revealed. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of ...

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Logistics providers and requires suspect and ill legitimate products il legitimate products to be appropriately apy handled. Ike like to thank senator harkin and senator alexander for their leadership on this bill. Id especially like to recognize senator bennet who has been a Strong Partner throughout the crafting of this legislation. For more than a year weve worked on this Bipartisan Legislation with our colleagues and have finally achieved an important balance with this bill. And i might adhe...

Very funny thing because actually i went to school to make money out of pharmaceuticals. That was my training, to use all the scientific knowledge and use my business knowledge to make money out of medicines. It is very interesting when one listens in many of the debates that the claim generally from the pharmaceutical industry gets fired up by this crisis we have only 13 of the u. S. Spending is due to drugs. Actually, that is true but not quite because the issue is that every single interventi...

For an intake with the budget analyst next week. Does that 10 million include equipment as well . Yes. Okay. The last time we had a hearing i vaguely remember the number being over that amount. You had mentioned a specific number closer to 12 . I dont remember the exact dollars. Its was closer to 12 and and we came down to 10. Any money is great. What we are asking for is a step to getting back to that 80 percent which is what weve always advocated for. I might be getting ahead, the second part ...

Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Heal...

The city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out patients are eligible to receive a low price negotiated by the federal government in the socalled 340 b program. Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondi...