Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
Having me here today. I would like to thank the u. S. Leadership Global Coalition for welcoming me and convening this important gathering about how the United States can and does lead in health care around the world. This is not necessarily the kind of stage i expected to be on when i was a young washington lawyer two decades ago before my first job at hhs, many of you may never have expected for me to attend gatherings like this either, but we are united here by the shared recognition that American Leadership on the world stage is indispensable to american prosperity and peace at home. When i was first asked to serve at hhs in 2011 as General Council i didnt imagine that Foreign Policy would become significance important of my work of domestic department. But i was confirmed in august of 2001, one month before 9 11 when everything changed. The day of 9 11 i quite literally experienced how much hhs needed to start thinking of ourselves as an integral part of the National Security estab
Hello and welcome everybody, its 7 30 a. M. Here in the iranian capital, tehran, youre watching press tvs world news. Our top story for this half hour is israels genocidal war on the gaza strip enters its six month, more civilians fall victim to the regimes ongoing air strikes on the besieg territory, starting with the north, where an israeli bombing of the alzaetun neighborhood in gaza city is killed two palestinians and injured several others. The city also witnessed another attack on palestinians cuwing for aid deliveries leaving several of them seriously injured. In central gaza, six civilians, including a journalist working for the alaska channel were killed in the israeli bombardment of deral balah, the number of journalists killed since the start of israels genocidal war now stands at 133. To the south reports say israel has cut Internet Access in large areas raffa, death tool from the israeli on slot on gas sincer cobra has now passed 30,600, majority of them women and children
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Education healthcare advocates of research now testify on the cost of prescription drugs before the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. This is about half an hour. Thank you all very much. We have three knowledgeable thank you all very much for being here. We have three very knowledgeable guests, panelists on prescription drugs and pricing. Our first witness will be peter , who is the director of access to Medicines Program and Public Citizens. Hes a lawyer who has advocated for stronger price were galician and Stronger Health protections in the u. S. And around the world. Thank you very much for being with us. Members of the committee, thank you, Public Citizen is a National Public interest organization. We have a 500,000 members and supporters and for 50 years we have advocated with success for health and consumer protections. Drug prices are high because of monopoly, power, leading to the rationing of treatment and preventable suffering. One in three americans has