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If i can have your attention. I am with the alliance for health reform. Thank you all for coming. Target lowincome population from the Affordable Care act and private insurance using federal medicaid dollars. To do that, they need federal approval in the form of a medicaid waiver. Three states already have their waivers in hand and are operating their new programs. Today we are going to take a look at the experiences of two of those states and a broader look at what some other states are proposi...

Sane up for the healthier michigan program, and im wondering if you cover cataract surgery. They said the reason ive been asking, ive been trying to get someone to pay for his cataract surgery, and the optometrist told hum if he had the surgery he have normal vision, and he has lost his job and has not been able to drive and this would enable this person to get back and about a contributing member of society and obviously improve their life. So i think as you hear those stories, there are compel...

Need 3. 6 trillion in investment and thats in all a number that includes things other than transportation but we need 3. 6 trillion in investment by the time the decade is through in order to raise it to appropriate levels. Now thats an all in number as i said. The thing is our infrastructure deficit is only going to get worse without action. We cannot meet the needs of growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. Over the next generat...

It is not realistically within the realm of possibility. This committee follow the murray ryan agreement and mark up at a trillion, 14 billion. That was the deal, and we will stick with the deal. The second issue that was raised is on the subject of entitlement reform. One of the reasons the mandatory programs are growing are because of the success of people who represent agencies at this table. Social security, people live longer. So we have more people than might have been anticipated by the a...

We will discuss if college is worth it. First, your take on that question. We will divide the lines this way. Hig host you can also email us. Magazine put these graphics together on whether or not colleges worth it. Take a look at this, the cost, fees adjusted for inflation. Look at the cost back in 1980, 19 81, around 5,000 for a twoyear public degree, for your public degrees right here. You can see how the cost has risen. In 2010, 20 11, that price is over 25,000 for your private school. That ...

More off the shore and possibility of thunder is over the ocean. It is on the way here. We will have the heavy showers moving in. In the morning until noon expect an increase in showers. Small hail is possible. Thunder, too. The temperatures will hang out mainly in the upper 50s to 60s. Here is leyla gulen with the commute. We have to drive slower this morning because of the slick conditions. We had a couple of accidents to get us going and they are clearing, one through the Santa Cruz Mountains...

We saw yees home, his legislative office in sacramento, the chinese Free Mason Lodge in chinatown, headquarters of bay steel in the bay view sdriblth, and a home in san mateo. The indictment was just unsealed and it spells out charges against yee of conspiracy to traffic and firearms without a license. And six counts of a scheme to defraud citizens of honest service. We are live in San Francisco. He appeared this afternoon. Vic . Reporter 19 of the 26 people charged in this complaint appeared in...

Right around the corner and this is a live look from our exploratorium camera. Right now we are in a lull, but tomorrow mornings commute is going to be slow and wet. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im carolyn johnson. Sandhya patel is tracking the system for us, and she is here with live doppler 7hd. Carolyn and dan, we will get drenched tomorrow morning during the commute. Lets check out live doppler 7hd and we can see what is on there now. We are just beginning to see a few showers developing in ...

Smoking advertised on television for the first time in their lives. Whats the impact of this marketing, do you think, among young people . I think it could be appealing to young people. And what we do know is that data from the cdc shows that e cigarette use among youth has also risen are rapidly from 2011 to 2012, it doubled. Thats very concerning. I think the same cdc study found one in five middle schoolers who tried ecigarettes say they had never tried a cigarette before. Michael mullins, yo...

Saves program. Salary saving is that number weve su month poesed were supposed to save with employees on leave. We had an unusual large number of employees who took lead that is year, and you can see the number there. We had 28 employees who at various times took and they werent out at the same time, but different times but it equalled 623,000 in savings. The three that ive noted here are the three investigators and those three investigators because they werent able to fill these positions for o...