Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
I will have to be strict with the gavel. The witnesses have a tight timeframe, i know you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up and every bit of it is obviously serious. The chair now recognizes herself for an Opening Statement let me begin with this, mr. Secretary. I think that confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of fairness the Coronavirus Response is on full display. Markets are reacting, in some part, to the lack of trusted information amongst many other factors. Our government has to speak with credibility and authority. Instead, it is like a greek chorus chanting through the state. That adds to the confusion. There are key questions that need to be addressed for the American People. What is the full plan should this virusinfected american in high numbers what is the plan for increasing diagnostic capacity . Limit
Wash authors april ryan and cal thomas sunday on book tv on cspan2. Health alec cesar health and Human Services secretary azar was in washington. He talked about the federal government response to the outbreak and testifying on the president s 2021 budget request. The second panel on the Coronavirus Response, those questions will be limited to five minutes, which is the usual case. Only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel. Since the witnesses have a tight timeframe and i know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up and every bit of it is obviously series. The chair recognizes yourself for five and its for an opening statement. Let me begin with this. , mr. Secretary i think that confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination for the Coronavirus
Come to order. I just want all members to know that our Witnesses Today have to leave at 5 00 p. M. The questions for the first panel on the hhs budget with secretary, and, welcome, mr. Secretary, will be limited to four minutes. The second panel on the minutesl case, but only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel, since the witnesses have a tight timeframe. I know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up. Every bit of it is, obviously, serious. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. Let me begin with mr. Secretary. I think that the confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination to the Coronavirus Response is on full display. We all know that. Markets are reacting, i think, at least in some parts, to the lack o
Familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policy community through a balanced exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce for supporting the alliance and putting on this series and with that support we have had the privilege of hosting many esteemed guests and Panel Discussions over the past couple of years including Joseph Grogan who im honored to welcome back today. I believe you have the distinction of being our first repeat guest. He joined us about a year ago when he was an associate director at omb and so we look forward to hearing about your new role and Health Care Priorities as the director of the Domestic Policy Council. Thank you for being here again, mr. Grogan. Thank you to all of you for being here and with that i will turn it over to bill to get us started. Thank you, kathryn. Welcome everybody, welcome on behalf of apco where with along with the alliance we think these are important