MURPHY & WYLE

No Wiley, how are you? I'm wonderful, Senator. Thank you for taking the time. So I did a year studying abroad in England, and when I was there, there was... You never studied abroad. Only one American show that was on BBC that I watched every week, which was ER. Oh, wow. That was an amazing show that really kind of formed my education in all these aspects and my advocacy, which now with the pit turned me into a man on a mission. Well, I'm glad you're here, and I'm glad that you were talking about what we needed to do to sort of lift up our health care professionals who have been through. uh hell over the last decade with the pandemic with sort of for-profit ownership creeping into our hospitals and stripping them of a lot of the services that patients need i'm here with a group of individuals that are lobbying for three things specifically one is a six thousand you can just hear it's so you know it's like an abcc after-school special it's uh the more you know it's it's edited it's scripted it's Never mind the fact that when, you know, Murphy, it's almost a page out of Lamont's about face. Like, I'm done with Eversource. All of a sudden, you know, Chris Murphy while he's yammered about health care. Wasn't it? We need more hospital. Can't you got to do the Chris Murphy voice? Trump. That's my, that's my Chris Murphy and Roger. I love it. Yeah, yeah. Trump's closing all the hospitals, all the rural hospitals in Connecticut. We need rural, isn't that what he was going on and on about? The need for rural hospitals with Noah Wiley, his Hollywood brethren, who maybe he met when he was in California a few weeks back, as opposed to Connecticut, and hanging out with... Jimmy Kimmel, that's probably when he made this Hollywood connection, he started worrying about profit medicine. And believe you me, that's big, that's code for big pharma in a lot of ways. Putting money ahead of patients and workers. Tax credit for health care workers, especially in regional areas that have population problems. That would make a huge difference. The second is to get the Lorna-Breen Act, which was passed by Congress last year fully funded. That's the next step. Hopefully to the $2.45 million so that all the programs that fall under that umbrella, which currently are servicing up to 250,000 healthcare workers every year can continue to do the work that they're doing. And the third is the sort of Speak Freely Act, that it's really important for... people who are in these jobs who have on the ground experience and oftentimes the closest, most familiar knowledge with what the patient needs to be able to speak up if they think that that patient care is being jeopardized without fear of reprisals. You play a doctor on TV. You know, what happened to that all that? You know, I'm not a doctor, but I play. Noah Wiley, what are you, what are you doing? Okay, you've played a doctor twice.