A federal regulator will be in des moines today to approve or deny the changes to the states Medicaid Program. Tse changes are supposed to happen january 1st. Yesterday, an Oversight Committee took a vote to delay the switch by six months, but the vote tied, and failed. The Committee Also questioned the companies that will oversee medicaid and heard public comments. Several dozen medicaid recipients and family members packed the meeting room and an overflow area. Nearly every patient complained ththswitch to private operation of the system is happening too fast. One activist hopes they stop the rush to managed care. T outpouring from iowa and the outcry is unprecedented and cms has never seen that and theyreretudying it cms stands for centers for medicare and medicaid services. The organizations regulators will question the four companies the state selected for the Medicaid Program. Cancer are living longer today than they did 20 years ago. Thats what a new university of iowa study fou
Also put you in eldora the judge also told humbles what happens to him after age 18 depends how he does in juvenile custody. Good behavior might mean adult probation after he turns 18. On the other hand, problems in juveveile custody could mean he would serve out his remaining prison time in iowas adult system. In an earlier hearing that move humbles to adult court, records shohumbles killed richardson in a suddede violent burst following threats made against the defendant on social media. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. In a tv9 followup. A judgdg resentenced a dubuque man to 50 years in prison for robbing a bar and shooting a Police Officer in 2009. Th was 77 year old eddie chests third senteteing. Chest took a plea agreement and was charged with robbery and the Armed Robbery at knickers saloon. Thats where he shot Dubuque Police lieutenant scott baxter. His last two sentences went a ainst that plea agreement. In court yesterday, prosecutors made a stronger case fo
News starts now. Lukas the blizzard shut down many parts blizzard warnings covering the area through the middle of the day. The radar shows that the falling snow is pinwheeling out of the region. Visibility right now remains fairly poor at 5 miles or less. The dayplanner reveals temperatures in the upper teens and lower 20s today. Your full forecast closing a number of local businesses and highways. The snow even garnered attention from those in other parts of the state. Abc9 News Reporter bria bell brings explains. Um, well actually were from the quad cities, says countryman. Kent countryman is from davenport, iowa and he says afteteseeing weather warnings about a a izzard hitting the siouxland area. Kent decided he would be travelling across the state to Company Clean up the white stuff in sioux city. Went ahead and called sharp landscaping here. And i asked him with the size of a storm that was coming in could they use any help and he said, definitely. Come this way, so we uh loaded
Im Kimberly Guilfoyle and this is the five. A world renowned doctor steals the show from president obama at the National Prayer breakfast ir washington. Blasting thebr president s janea right in frontng of him. Its a speech thats caught aro lot of peoples attention, ladies, dr. Benjamin carson. The pc police are out in force at all times. Weve reached a point where a people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say. Our deficit is a big problem. What about ourbo taxation syste . When i pick up my bible, you know what i see . I see the fairest individual in the universe, god, hes given us a system. Its called tithe. He didnt stopme there becaue carson is head of neurosurgery at john hopkins. Listen to his anecdote for obamacare. Here is my solution. When the person is born, give him a birth certificate, Electronic Medical record and a Health Savings account. To which money can be contributed,n pretaxed, from tx time youre born to the time yot die. When you die, you can pas
Several key agricultural groups and stakeholders issued responses to the Senate Ag Committee Republicans’ farm bill framework. Gregg Doud, President and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation, calls it a strong framework that marks another important step in enacting a farm bill. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association also reacted positively to the framework, noting […]