Main breaks all over the place , to catch you up in a couple every minutes. Along with, that we do have more wet weather, more wintery weather will be moving n but it is not going to be straight up snow this time. It is still cold enough that if it were to come right now it, wouldnt be just snow. But comes later today when we finally get past freezing. So it is like an insult to injury here. Yes, you know, were finally going to climb above 32 degrees, but then it comes with its on trade off of problems when the next system gets here. Already you can see all of the mixing thats going on back in the Buckeye State for example. A lot of pink indicating ice across that area, whether it is freezing rain or sleet, doesnt matter, it is still ice. But specially freezing rain is an issue as we head toward the pm hours. We are going to see mixing just depending on your location, the morning commute in terms of weather anyway, no problems whatsoever. You just have few clouds overhead currently. It
Through a lens of activism, and tonightism that is here thats in the overflow room thats spreading across the an activism that stopped the repeal of the worst that i haveislation ever seen in all my time in government. Heering and applause] rep. Keating senator warren and both represent the United States and the commonwealth of also husetts but i represent marshfield and this region and in the course of the going to talking about not Just National issues nd interNational Issues, but also National Issues that affect our region proportionally, and terrible piece of of the ion, the repeal to rdable healthcare act, 2. 1 billion in cuts, that Means Services and nd out of pocket costs. Things ill just mention through the course is his people say were reducing the cost. Theyre reducing the cost in the federal budget. But in my district, our district, if youre 5564 years f age, it would have resulted 5269 on average out of pocket. If you were on medicare with it cription drug costs, would have
Thank you very much for being here. This is a terrific crowd and the crowd we just spent a few minutes with in the overflow room is here and excited as well. Senator warren and i are here, number one, two thank you because i must tell you as they look back historically at this time of our country they will look back right now to advance of activism and an activism that is here tonight thats in the overflow room, that spread across the country and in activism that stopped the repeal of the worst piece of legislation that ive ever seen in all my time of government. [cheers and applause] senator warren and i both represent the United States people represent the commonwealth of massachusetts. But also represent marshfield and this region and in the course of the evening we will be talking not just about National Issues and interNational Issues, but also issues that affect our region disproportionally at that toe piece of legislation, the repeal of the Affordable Care act in our district al
Talk about the drivers of this. Who are the two senators, what are they interested in. The republican senators working on this plan are built cassidy and lindsey graham. Lindsey graham and him started working on this plan earlier this summer. Looking they were working to overhaul Affordable Care act in july and started coming up with this pla plan. They officially rolled out there updated legislation last week. This girl would take the funding to help people afford insurance and outofpocket payments and medicaidge expansion, put it all into a general fund. Thats what were looking at. Talk a little bit about why they think the blockwa grant system is the way to go. You give the state money. This would be a really big change in terms of how healthcare is funded, going from federal government, state government, the senators are saying federalism is the way to go, give people the chance to really decide whats going on in healthcare or that sort of how theyre looking at the. You talk about
She covers health care in that. Talk about the drivers of this. Who are the two senators, what are they interested in and tell us about the legislation . Guest the republican senators working on the plan are bill cassidy of louisiana and Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Bill cassidy was a physician before coming to congress. Lindsey graham and him started working early in the summer around when Senate Republicans were looking to overhaul in july, they started coming up with this plan. Saying if we could get to congress, we will conference, they will do this plan. This bill would take effectively starting in 2020, the funding for the Affordable Care act. ,he funding goes to tax credits cautionary payments to help people afford outofpocket payments, put it all into a general fund and then block grant that to states based on different formulas to determine how much each state would get under their program. That is what we are looking at. Potentially a vote as soon as next week. Host talk