Business. Pretty. Ot always been but we should take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished. 7 million residents of our fores have signed up Affordable Health care, millions of people who could not afford Health Insurance and were one accident or illness away from financial ruin, now have Health Insurance. Significant. This is something that we all of. Ld be proud all. Hats not we hear talk about what it thet do, but under aAffordable Care act, Insurance Companies are no longer allowed against people diabetes, or other preexisting conditions. Longer allowed to discriminate against women. Thats happening now. Millions of our residents receive free preventative care, stay well. We all know that its cheaper to keep somebody well than to treat sick. Hen theyre if you want to talk about driving down the cost of health care. Millions of kids can stay on their parents plans until 26. re and billions of dollars in rebate checks have been sent to country. Across the thats happened and
Schools. Michelle obama said yesterday that School Districts that hold back on efforts to emigrate, others say success has been made. Schooloughts on segregation and if it is still an issue in this day and age. Heres how you can make your thoughts known. We divided the line regionally. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of brown versus board of education, First Lady Michelle Obama in kansas making comments that only about the state of education and her experiences, but also segregation issues as she sees that race saying raised inequality still exists and that School Districts have pulled back on efforts to integrate, even as schools are becoming less diverse. Much has been made of a study that came out of ucla this week. Amongst the study, they put several charts taking a look at most integrated states for black students. This is for 2011 and 2012. Earlier this week in the pages the wall street journal here is some of what she wrote in the wall street journal pages. Again, we will tak
Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the National Security letter statutes, and the pen register trap and trace provisions of fisa. It replaces the bulk telephony Metadata Collection Program with a new framework that preserves the capabilities we need without the Government Holding the bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools t
I would like a report on that. To do that. E happy the gentlelady is recognized. Thank you, and thank you for your outstanding testimony. I would like to start by quoting the speaker when he referenced the rollout as her rent is in the launch was anything but smooth. Representative the rollout her rent this horren dous and the launch was anything but smooth. Of Medicare Part d, which is seen as full of problems, it was all about fixing it because it was in president bushs administration. I would like to see the same frank lists frankness or willingness to fix the problem now that it is in president Obamas Administration and we are undertaking a much larger effort. Good is that you have fixed the problem. I have trouble figuring out whether or not you have met your or will meet your goals. We are going to meet our goals. Our goal for the shortterm is to improve our functionality and the usability of our system. They have exceeded enrollment. As you have heard in my testimony, we are pro
The willis report where consumers are our business starts right now. Well there is a little less laughter in the world tonight. Comedy legend joan rivers has died. The funny lady was a trail is blazer for female comediennes, she poked most fun at herself. At age 81 joan rivers went into cardiac arrest last week during an outpatient proper and went on lifesupport. What went wrong . We have a doctor from the beth israel medical center. Doctor, great to have you here with us. I want to start by just asking, how common is it for a patient to have a heart attack during a procedure at one of these Outpatient Clinics . How often does that happen . It does not happen very often. Usually in these Outpatient Clinics doctors are fully prepared to handle eventualities like cardiac arrest. It is ctually a very rare event. Usually the patient stops breathing because of a drug, because they have a medical event like a stroke, or they actually have a heart attack due to the stress of the proper. Liz j