My first stop in the series was at the Commonwealth Fund to learn more about health care and how it got so expensive. We solicited a lot of patient stories through social media and at the end of the series i had this bank of woe of patient stories, people who were smart for the most port New York Times readers who had not been able to make the system work. By there time you are finished, you realized you just scratched the service. I felt like i needed to know because it shows how prices had gotten as a physician to tried in the 80, i knew health care had not always been this way. I wanted to understand how did we get to this system which literally nobody seems to like right now. And by understanding that how can we get to a better place. We have seen so many efforts reform and everybody agrees to needs to be reformed but as see see on the hill today we are still arguing. As you mentioned, you are a physician i am a physician. We went to the same medical school. Harvard medical school.
Hello it is the pleasure to be here if you congratulations lawn in incredible readable and thorough review of problems with the Health Care System. I have a ton of questions based on my background as a physician or Health Policy analyst but first i would like u. S. Gay couple of questions so why did you write this book and why now. I worked a couple of years on the series for the year times and also to the Commonwealth Fund how the Health Care System had gotten so very expensive so we solicited patients stories and then i had a bank of patients stories for the most part that were injured but they cannot make the system work. That was one aspect. In the newspaper story pickoff one piece it you go one by one and did you realize you scratch the surface then i needed to know how the prices had gotten high a and look at those factors but i wanted to understand the evolution of that process because the position you trained in the 80s by new health care have not always been this way so how do
Costs and got provided guidance to consumers. Shes interviewed by doctor david blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund. Its a pleasure to be here with you. I want to congratulate you on an incredibly readable review of our Healthcare System and proposals. I have a ton of questions based on my background as a physician and of course as a id like to ask a couple questions for context and why did you write this book and why did you write it now . I had worked for a couple years on a series with the New York Times. I first got the necessaries from the Commonwealth Fund to learn a little bit more about our Healthcare System and it had gotten expensive and then during that series we solicited a lot of stories through social media and at the end of the series 2 years later i had this bank of kind of patient stories, people who were smart and for the most part the New York Times reader just hadnt been able to make the system work so that was one aspect to another aspect was in the newsp
This is our debut. Linda and i, Linda Sanchez and i, im congressman joe crowley, chair of the Democratic Caucus work the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus, Linda Sanchez. This is our debut, our inauguration in many respects. I want to say what a massive crowd of the press we have here today. It is enormous, it is probably in all likelihood i think the largest on record, although Javier Becerra is already disputing that, he says he has pictures. Where i sit, or stand at this point, i count at least 95 cameras, wouldnt you say, 95 cameras or so . Thats my interpretation. If i say it, it must be true. Thank you all very much for being here. On a serious note, though, President Trump spent his first days in office obsessing over trivial nonsense. And wielding the power of the presidency to attack womens health, ignore basic campaign promises, thats not an encouraging sign for any of us over the next four years. And its not just President Trump. Congressional republicans and their leaders
On twitter. Thank you for the update. The House Budget Committee voted 19 to 17 to pat three republicans voted against the measure. The entire Committee Meeting lasted just under five hours. The committee will come to order as members take the seat take their seat. Today we meet to report the recommendations to the committee. The concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 2017. Under the congressional budget act of 1974, the Budget Committee has the role of combining the reconciliation submissions of the Committee Ways and means, energy, and commerce, and reporting the bill to the house without any substantive revisions. After reporting the measure, the committee will conclude with final motions. Todays my capacity markup will be as follows. The Ranking Member and i make the opening statement. I asked that members insert their statements into the record. I will hold the record open until the end of the day for that purpose. After voting, report the American Health care act