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Thank you for being here today welcome to the staged Vice President for clientt heidi sommer. Good afternoon everyone. I name is ryan i am coauthor and host of politico playbook deep dive podcast. In addition to this being a public conversation for you all this is our first alive taping of the deep dive podcast. Thank you for joining us for that. If you want to know more about that podcast there is a qr code in your program so please check that out. Welcome, thank you for doing this. Clicks than...

So i have the privilege to chairing and delightful to see all you here today. This is the biggest in person attendance we had since before the pandemicism i want to acknowledge the presence of former Health Commissioner margene sako. Well start with roll call. [roll call] wonderful. Now, commissioner gerardo will read the land acknowledgment. The ramaytush oholone and acknowledgment. The San Francisco Health Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush...

Committee. This first portion is just under three hours. [inaudible conversations] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. As we all know very important both will be taking place, republicans of knickers will be meeting in their caucuses so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes, if thats okay wit...

Like to welcome to stage politico Vice President for client partnerships, heidi summer. Up next, white house counselor to former President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway and Samantha Power on Health Policies in the u. S. And spoke at Politico Health care summit in washington, d. C. Good afternoon, everyone, im ryan, the coauthor of playbook and the host of politicos playbook deep dive podcast and in addition to this being a public conversation here for you all, its actually our first live taping...

Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on h...

[inaudible conversations] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. As we all know very important both will be taking place, republicans of knickers will be meeting in their caucuses so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes, if thats okay with folks. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of Bristol My...

She. The subcommittee will come to order and dmi recognize self for five minutes of o statements. Thank you to our witnesses for sitting here today. The legislation before us will step helping to support rare disease. She a rare disease that affects less than 200,000 patients in the united states. According to the National Institute of hea there are over 10000s as many as 30 million amens despite 10 of the u. S. Population with a rare disease 95 o diseases most patients can evenosed which can be...

Education labor, this is how to know thank you all very much. We have three knowledgeable guests on prescription drugs and pricing, the director to the public assistance and advocating for Strong Public Health and around the world. Members of the committee, thank you. Public citizens a Public Citizen organization, 500,000 numbers for the years advocated with success. Drug prices are high because of monopoly power leading to rationing of treatment and traffic suffering. Diabetes drugs i cant affo...

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 fo...

This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you fo...