Jumping. Wait until you see whats happening on the ground in iowa. Meanwhile, though we begin with the markets and those 1 gains or thereabouts. Lets get the trading action. Bob is live at the new york stock exchange, Bertha Coombs following the movers at nasdaq. Bob, you go first. Another big story on the floor today is avon. Whats going on with that one . We just had a wild morning here. This post was filled with almost 100 traders. They have halted three times on whats called a volatility halt. That is for unusual trading action. Apparently there was an erroneous and false report that they may have had a takeover offer. Now, were trying to sort all of this out. Again, it appears that it was erroneous and false but the important thing is that three times the stock was halted. The company did not make a clear statement down here so absent that, it couldnt be halted because the company had a statement to make. It could only be halted because we had circumstance breakers kick in as a re
Sustaining forces. But its no time to rest on our laurels. We have many others pressed that now is the time to keep the progress going, keep moving forward and not to expect the trend will continue, but to get ahead of it and keep moving down the path. I think from our good, certainly after the economic downturn, we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs and medicine. Do we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The unchecked prediction as to be 25 of gdp by 2025. Now is the time to impact occurs. Although lucena moderation in growth were recently, we have seen a spike again. So i agree it is time to really focus after as part of the implementation of the Affordable Care to really focus on cost. Agreement on the send . Yes, i think so. One of the concerns be seen as slowing the rate of growth in that occur in particular, we have allowed vb programmers in the medicare system right now. 65, 66 years old relatively low utilizers at the population as a whole. 15 years or not, baby bo
To pay for increases in premiums. We are having tradeoffs and what we would invest in and infrastructure education, and art. Our Public Employees have not had raises and five years. It is challenging every sector of our economy. Marilyn, it is not good to see that medicare costs are way down. That is not subject to the same Market Forces. It is no time to rest on our laurels. We have brookings, Bipartisan Policy Center, they have pressed that now is the time to keep moving forward and not expect that trend will continue. To get ahead and keep moving down the path of cost control. From our perspective, the blues after the economic downturn we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs in medicine. What we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The untaxed a prediction is that it will be increased by 2025. Now is the time to impact that curve. We have seen a spike again. I agree, it is time to really focus on, after the implementation as part of the implementation of the Affordable Car
Different delays of the Affordable Care act. The enrollment. For 2015 will now start november 2014 instead of the previous planned october date. Delaysouncement of these and what you think about the changes to the Affordable Care act. Here are the numbers. Wall street journal chose this headline to talk about delays. Again, for those delays, we want to get your thoughts on this morning. Phone lines are on the screen. To give you a listing of the major timeline for the Affordable Care act, the october 1 date was when signups began. On november 30 the Obama Administration set a deadline for fixing healthcare. Gov. Come january 1, 2014, coverage begins. Some of the other options in play right now are march 31, enrollment deadline for 2014 coverage. Again, with that in mind, these delays, and Affordable Care act overall, heres jerry from columbus, ohio on our independent line. Caller still above ground in my 85th year. A veteran. Id like to know why the devil does not anybody ever bring ou
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