Death. The virus has also spread to new york, where Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a directive requiring Health Insurance to wait cost sharing for coronavirus tests. But what if you dont t have health insnsurance . The coronavavirus is a gret argument for medicare for all, but so are a lot of other things like all of those diabetics who cant afford their insulin, which can cost about 1000 a month. People with high Blood Pressure who cant afford to go to the doctor and get their Blood Pressure control. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with Steffie Woolhandler dr. , elisabeth and new york state , andor Alessandra Biaggi we will go to seattle, washington, the other ground zero of the coronavirus in the United States, to speak with socialist Councilmember Kshama sawant. Then we look at Voter Suppression . The long wait times plagued in polling places from texas to california throughout super tuesday, especially in districts with high numbers of black and latinx voters and college stu
Has reached 11. On wednesday, california recorded its first coronavirus death. The virus has also spread to new york, where Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a directive requiring Health Insurance to wait cost sharing for coronavirus tests. But what if you dont t have health insnsurance . The coronavavirus is a gret argument for medicare for all, but so are a lot of other things like all of those diabetics who cant afford their insulin, which can cost about 1000 a month. People with high Blood Pressure who cant afford to go to the doctor and get their Blood Pressure control. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with Steffie Woolhandler dr. , elisabeth and new york state , andor Alessandra Biaggi we will go to seattle, washington, the other ground zero of the coronavirus in the United States, to speak with socialist Councilmember Kshama sawant. Then we look at Voter Suppression . The long wait times plagued in polling places from texas to california throughout super tuesday, especially i
Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] lets continue our second panel, and we thank our panelists for being here and for sitting through the first panel. Before i introduce our panelists, let me to say a few words. I think sometimes it is important to take a 30,000foot look at the systems under which we live. And we dont do that often enough. We deal with crisis by crisis. In my view, we are living with the Healthcare System which is broken and which is dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country on earth. 13,000 every year, which is unsustainable. And yet despite that, 85 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. We are seeing in many parts of this country, unbelievably, above and beyond covid a decline in our life expectancy. We have half a million americanv whoever your experience bankruptcy which is related to the medical debt that they have.
[background noises] [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of committee at any time. Im before we begin secretary has informed us she has only two hours available for this hearing. So in the interest of time Ranking Member and i are remedying ourselves to very brief Opening Statements we are asking the secretary to do the same. Additionally we get as many members as possible a chance to ask questions. And in concurrence with the Ranking Member i ask unanimous consent to limit each members q and a to four minutes without objection. So ordered. Out also like to request unanimous consent to submit to statements for the record for bt the first is from chairman lucas who could not be with us here today. As you know he has had a terrible accident with a bowl, he is a rancher. And he is recuperating. We look forward to his return soon because his leadership is dearly missed. The second as a full Opening Statement from my