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She is Senior Health correspondence and she tweets. Thank you for having me. The stock wrote the first Republican Senate bill and the new version, where the big differences . One is the amendment by senator ted cruz, republicans in texas talking about allowing insurers to sell plans that are not necessarily as comprehensive as the coverage under the Affordable Care act. If you have 18 can require benefits and things like maternity healthcare they can offer plans that are not us, prehensile. Ther...

Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to ca...

Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to ca...

Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths...

The major medicaid changes remain and there are some decisions and the major thing we have to remember about medicaid. The would change the structure. Instead of being a state program maybe a zika outbreak or. Urricane or something in and there are also medicaid, some other changes that include, changing a formula that would provide more money to help provide uncompensated care. Say. It is one change that is important. Host let me talk to about medicaid. It is a fundamental issue. If you are a g...

Need to know ahead of those numbers. We are coming off of another record close for the dow industrials, 24th alltime high this year. Futures indicating a bit of a pullback this morning, fractional move coming off the high. Dow industrials set to open up ten points and whether or not that changes things. The european markets are mixed, european indices as you see there, majors are flat. In asia overnight gains across the board to report, fractional moves, nonetheless but in the plus column. Plane...

And society. But some of this is unacceptable. We continue with craig unger, a new republic discussing trumps russian laundromat. Where you can go through all of the purchases for example at trump tower. Whenever you get a name you google it. He sold many apartments there in florida, he had developments where about a third of the units were sold to russians. In panama city panama, he has a trump towers and dozen and dozen of the units were sold to russians. This was a fire sale in a way to bring...

And the Senior Editor for politics at the atlantic. It has been a heck of a week. I heard the president before he left for france the frustrated over the fact the russia story will not go away. I have heard it suggested by some he saw this story involving his son as perhaps the Worst Development and worst day of his presidency. We have new developments. More new developments today. We have heard the president has hired a new criminal attorney, ty cobb. They have been looking for someone to come ...

In 2018, the margin was too narrow. To kevin cirilli. Andlso have sahil kapur megan murphy. Speaking to you a few hours ago. This is the third version of the Gop Health Care bill. Now, even a repeal one pass. What was senator mcconnell thinking . Mcconnells efforts to put together a straightforward repeal of obamacare have failed with three female senators and saying they will not actually do a vote to have the bill go forward in the senate. This was an interesting political move, it was an atte...

Mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the president pro tempore. Mr. Hatch mr. President , the final pieces of obamacare care were signed into law a little over seven years ago. Since that time republicans not just in congress, but throughout the country have been united in their opposition to the law and our commitment to repeal it. This hasnt been simply a political or partisan endeavor. Were not just trying to take a notch out of president obamas win column. The simple truth is that ...