Reported in the teens so bundle up today going through the City Hospitals say they would prefer not to partake in the states new medicaid plan. Starting the first of january, medicaid plans will be organized by four different private companies. Abc9 News Reporter bria bell has more on the issue. 1800ask permission is not really the best way to manage care, said wold. Beginning january 1st, 4 private companies will oversee medcaid plans for the state of iowa, but Unitypoint Health st. Lukes president and ceo says this plan has some unforseen bumps in the road. Its created some confusion for a lot of medicaid beneficiaries. Its created confusion for providers, but i think that were finding some clarity and were getting some answers, said wold. Medicaid patients will be assigned to an mco and will have to find a Health Care Provider that matches their plan. If a patient finds a provider that is not under contract with at the start of the new year, then he or she will have 90 days to file
Due to a weather related incident on the tarmac. Jessica rae after months of anticipation. The day is finally here star wars the force Awakens Opens tonight. Leaving fans all over the country giddy with excitement. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae the Federal Reserve is increasing Interest Rates for the first time in nearly a decade. And the nations largest banks have already started raising their prime lending rates. Making things a little more expensive. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the story. Do you have a credit card . A car loan . Mortgages . Listen up. Fed chair janet yellen announcing the Federal Reserve is upping Interest Rates from a record low of zero to onequarter of a percent. And while it may be a good sign for the economy . Yellen . The federal funds rate was held near zero to support the recovery of the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the great depression. It may not be go for your wallet rates have been kept low in o
The president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. Critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Earlier today, we talked to dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind, but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. Mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students perform at Different Levels many states like iowa continue to change the form of the assessment, the reporting of the sessment,so its very difficult to discover, but the federal governrnnt still has to underer the previous lawaw hand out these negaitive designations to different schools and different districts based on their performance. Deborah saying it involved and not enough teaching. It also had
Billionaire is aiming his political fire at the democratic frontrunner. And her husband, whos now scheduled for 3 more Campaign Stops in New Hampshire next week. [[ bill clinton iowa 184205 hillary has the right temperament and the Proven Ability to figure out a way to make good things happen. Privately, the Trump Campaign tells nbc news it hopes to force the popular former president off the campaign trail. Publicallyit sounds more like a warning to Hillary Clinton. [[ Katrina Pierson donald trump isnt targeting bill clinton, hes pointing out Hillary Clintons role in trying to silence women who have accused him of horrendous things. A point theyre trying to hammer home on instagram. [nat] instagram different nat than yesterday [[ pierson 14;16;09 if she is going to continue this line of attack of trying to label republicans as sexist, she needs to tread very carefully. 10 the strategy may work now with the republican basebut it could backfire down the road. Some democratic strategists
Food that we eat. You can watch this and other programs at booktv. Org. Booktv covers hundreds of Office Programs dropped the country all year long area heres a here is a look at some of the events that we will be attending the week. Look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. On tuesday we are at the harvard club on the report of russias efforts to dominate world energy supply. The next evening at the University Club in new york city and looking at the lower state taxation and Economic Prosperity with art laffer. Then we are alive with the National Book awards. On saturday and sunday, we are live from the 31st annual miami au pair with author panels and viewer call and with the likes of cornel west and john dean. That is some of the programs we will be covering this upcoming week. Visit upcoming programs for more. Barrett tillman recounts the military exploits in world war ii during his talk on his book forgotten fifteenth. This is about one hour and 15 minu