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The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
Squawk alley. Morgan, thank you very much. Good morning. It is 8 00 a. M. At snap headquarters in venice beach, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Starting from the bottom, now were here starting from the bottom, now my whole team here startied from the bottom, now were here started from the bottom, now the whole team here good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen with me here at post 9 along with Business Insider ceo henry blodget. Good to see you this morning. Good to see you. Eight years in and still going strong. The s p rallying nearly 250 since hitting that closing low of just over 676 on this day in 2009. This is the second longest bull market ever. Oil, on the other hand, falling below 50 for the first time this year. Of course, had the worst day yesterday in about 11 months. Just to put the rally into perspective, henry, would you have been skeptical of for a long time, more now than ever . Yes. The higher we go on valuation basis
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec