Transcripts For WLFL Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson 20161030

Devastated parts of louisiana, mississippi and alabama. Americans poured out their hearts in the form of donations and expresident s george h. W. Bush and bill clinton joined lands. The millions who donated and00s of tusands of poor people deserve to have a fl discrepa accounting. Elmeo full measure. Im sryattkisson. In the past three years affordable ce or obama care has expanded health innce it paying for millions more taay expense. But it no secret hers pre skyrocketed and benefit declined as. This week the obama ministtion rled premiums will rise an average of 22 next year in arizona the cost ofome plan will incrse 116 . With 2017 bennintuesday we investigat and found that obama ca isn critical conditioleaving inrance system. Vginia hlth Insurance Broker helps match customers with the right policies. It is not working. A task that isuch toughe unr oba care. Your average person who makes 30,000 to 35,000 cant afford a 10,000 deductible and out of pocket higher. It is not sustainable or affordable. Especially hard on her mother who was not offered insurance at work. She personally had to purchase her plan through obama care and she has diabetes and her plan she can barely afford it. They call it the Affordable Care agent but it was the opposite for her. I told them not to call this the Affordable Care act. You told who . The obama administration. E democrats, robert the policy advisor for the Insurance Industry is correctly predicted obama cares pitfalls since day one. The future is not good. The fundamental problem is not enough Healthy People signed up toay for sick and not healy people signe up because e insurance planseople are being offered are not of good view r value. What do ctomers see as wrong wi the product . The Insurance Products beeve and copays are too high. Can you explain in simple terms how the insurance compans areosing so much mo if they charge so much for premiums and so high. It is simple. If you only provide a plan that sickes people buy you cant charge enough. You can never cha. The rates are getting such that people are saying im simply not going to have Health Insurance a i will pay the penalty bee afford the premium and iill take my chaes of beingen insured and paying the lty, which defeats the purpose of the affordable healthcare act. She is lucky to ve good insurancthrough her teaching job. She knows others facing a hard reality. If you are working for a city job you have healthcare. But if you work for a job in a it is expensivehem to give you qualit healtcare. I is expensive say experts because nearly all the gornment plans have back fired. Take the abysmal fair of the Obama Carrico ones 23 nonprofits started with your tax dollars after being exorbitant salaries they went belly uone by one. There were 23 and 17 that isur tax money . About 3 billion when it is all over jurisdiction for Profit Companies are jumping ship. Aetna, humana, some blue cross plans a number of blue cross plans losing substantial amounts of ney and having to go afterajor rate increas. Month obama care critics were surprised to hear agreement from an unlikely source. President clinton on the stump you have this cti where 25 m have heahcare and people busting it offensive week have premiums doubled and coverage cut in half. It ithe craziest thing in the world. The white house declined or interview. Last week the president acknowledged oba cas trbles but said the signature plan can be fixed instead of scrapp. Like a smartphone that was recall the for catching on fire. Thi ankut it. Whene on comes outith a new smart phone and has a few bugs. They fix it. They upgrade unless it catches fire then they pull it off the market. But the psirentontinued to call the Affordable Care act one of his adminisations key successes. Because of became care another 20 million americans now know the Financial Security of so do another three million children. The net result is never i American History have the uninsured rates been lower than it is today. Is it true that more people have Health Insurance today as a result of the obama care plan . It is true more people have Health Insurance bause of obama care particulay because of the Medicaid Expansion in 31 states that have taken it. Richard says he iselighted by the options available in the u. S. Compared to where from in the philippines. Im thankful that we have it. Obama care has also opened up affordable insurance to many with preexisting medical conditions. Illnesses that once made it impossible for some to get affordable insurance. A lot of people were able to get insurance that couldnt get it before because they had preexistingonditions. I suppose in some respects that was good. At any longer have caused insurancrates to go up at catastrophic rates. It is called the death spiral. Not enough Healthy People sign up to pay for the sick. Premiums have to go up. So more Healthy People drop the insurance premiums for those left have to go up again. The lowest income people in obama care are the ones there benefit the most. They get the highest subsidies and deduc are subsidized. Owest 82 signed up that is a terrific pool. But then if you look at the people between 300 an 400 above poverty only 17 of them signed up. So i thi part of the program in a death spiral already. Earlier this month minnesota shock cases like one family of four learning they will have to pay 40,000 in premiums with 13,000 deductible. The reality is that the Affordable Care act is no longer affordable at the core it was supposed to provide affordable insurance for everybody who needed it. Yes. The Affordable Care act was supposed to ensure that whether you were employed, selfemployed yowould have access to fordable Health Insurance. For someone who is not geing a subsidy, who is paying the full st of insurance, it is likely that they are now paying about old market where only Healthy People could get in. Any time you make people spend their money on something it is pretty tough. We are just not i think as a placwhere we can be told we each monthspecially if you have multiple people and it is a huge 1kr50eu6r. Experts say obama care is already a failed experiment and predicts without a major fix it ll implode by the ends of next year. Still ahead could the u. S. Power grid be russias next target . What should be happening is the next president is likely to face the real scenario of the first shot in a cyber war. One pension target the grid some say that attack has already begun. Lisa fletcher has the story. This is the nations electrical grid, 55,000 substations pushing power to 200,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines lighting up 125 milliohomes across the countries. Cybersecurity experts call in waiting to be hit. One hacker that is is adequately skilled can cause infinily more damage than a bomb. John miller is the chief research offer for silence. He used to get paid to hack Critical Infrastructure like banks Nuclear Power plants to find the vulnerabilities before the bad guys. Somebody coming in and causing damage to a power plant Transportation Industry will create a ripple of destruction. Miller says an intentionally outage by an enemy state or rogue hacker is not an implausible scenario. On december 23, 2015, hackers took down the power for nearly a quarter of a Million People in ukraine. An unprecedented move that has been widely blamed on lets talk about the hack in the christian. Your suspensions of swugss of suspicions of why that was done. For all intents and purposes it was russians. Commonly recogd it was a proof of escape. We can talk about hacking stub takes an take down power the only way you know for real is if you do it. Last year everything that happened there could happen here. Joe is an expert on the Automated Systems that control everything from dams to substations. He spent his career studying how the electric grid works. You have the transformer and you have the relay house and this is typical. He says substations like this one are all over the country and they are more vulnerable to hacks than the utilities care to let that is because wise and others say nations like china and russiaave already infected the u. S. Power grid with the very same destructive malware in ukraine. While it hasnt been triggered there is no way to remove in. What does that mean that black energy malware is in the grids . It is a way of mapping whether you have. Put it there what is in our grids. Michael rogers who runs both thn. S. A. And u. S. Cyber command raised the same concerns. It is only a matter of when not if. You are going to see a nation state or group or actor engage in destructive behavior against Critical Infrastructure in the united states. Are the governments and Utility Companies prepared for the kind of outage you are talking about . I dont belve so. The reason is that very widespread and it could be very long. As long as nine to 18 months he says. What does that look like . It would be like going back to the 1850s. But the Utility Industry trade association has minimized the threat of a cyber hack. The executive director Scott Aaronson was in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee in may. There are a lot of threats to squirrels to nation states and there have been more as a result of squirrels than nation states. Jerry cawley head of the Regulatory Association testified in april that an outage would be minimal. And the industry is ready for it. In the unlikely event of a successful cyber or physical attack i believe that we are well prepared. It is ludicrous for the Power Industry to maintain that they have secured the power grid. In and the chinese are inside it. Ted is the author of lights out a book that specimens out the risk and how unprepared the government is to deal with it. Since the book came out you have been the brunt of a lot of push back from critics. A lohave said the dangered you raised are overblown. Why would they say that . Thats what critics do. Are. I dont think you will find that there were many critics in the intelligence community. I dont think you will find that there are many critics in the military community. The krgts tend to come from the ectric Power Industry. And from their organizations and of course they are going to criticize it. They dont want the American Public to believe that the power grid is in danger. So, it makes sense that they would argue that im wrong and they are rht some experts in the instry have said no need to worry. Security is better. We have our arms around this. Do we have our arms around this . No. I think it is pretty obvious that we dont. Why do you think theres not more of a sense of urgency to fix the systems . People dont have the answers on how do you it. It is not that the people have vulnerabilities and are needs to get rebuilt and replaced. Something that cant happen overnight making koppel and others wonder where is the governments sense of urgency. What should be happening now that isnt happening . We should be preparing for the consequences of a devastate ing cyber attack. We reached out to the Utility Companies and other countries we have tremendous variability among the 3,000 plus electric kwraoulgts in the u. S. And they say that in essence makes it much more difficult to take it down at once. Sounds like the inconsistencies may work to our advantage. Next we follow the money and track Hurricane Katrina new York Attorney general investigation into Donald Trumps charity the Trump Foundation and ordered it to stop raising money in new york because it is not registered there. I had a chance to ask trump about it. Are confident that the Trump Foundation has followed all charity recall rules and laws . I hope sofrplts my lawyers do it. We give away money. I take no salaries or any costs. I have zero costs. A lot of money goes through foundation into calculators. Doesnt go to cooperating with the investigation. The Clinton Foundation raeulgs under fire for allegedly taking millions from donors to influence Hillary Clintons secretary of state but she denies it. Emails published by wickileaks show some interviewees told auditors defends may have an expectation of quid pro quo benefits for gifts. Meantime there are questions back tourricane katrina. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina one devastated parts of louisiana. Mississippi and alabama. Americans paourtd their hearts in the form donations and george w. Bush and bill clinton joined to raise funds. The best way to help nows to make a cash donation. What most people dont know is bush clton katrina fund had not been set up as nonprofit under i. R. S. Rules so they temporarily differeded them and held them in their own existing charities. President bushs Greater Houston Foundation and the Clinton Foundation. Three months after the storm in december of 2005, president clint announced more than 110 million were raised and money still coming in. But when the official katrina fund was set up ledgers show the president s charities transferred less than 80 million. 52. 3 million from bush and foundation. 27. 4 million. That is over 30 million short of what clinton said had been raised. The bush charity said that is because a lot of donations had not been collected more than four months after they were announced. The charities havent released records showing how much came in and from home citing donor privacy. A tax expert and former senior counsel who conducted oversight what are the questions you would like answered . The question questions are key questions are complete accounting of all the money you got. One rule for charities but when you are a chity run by president s and the president calls on people to donate it is belt and suspender time. You have to be doing it right because it reflects on confidence of charities. Theres another apparent report. It says approximately 128. 4 million had been received to date from all 50 states and 30. 9 million from foreign countries. That is about 160 million. But cording to tax documents only 129 million ended up in the katrina funds. The Clinton Foundation declined to answer questions or clarify issues. A Foundation Source previously missing but its annual report probably could have been characterized differently becausehe wording made it seem like there were 30 million than was actually collected. The idea that there are what appear to be discrepancies absent some other explanation doesnt mean anything nefarious happened but does it tell you anything about a charity . That they could be off in 30 million when they were making reports to the public . But it could be people are not perfect around he get that but it goes to a core point i think that the folks who donated and the hundreds of thousands poor people at the end of the day and thanks to your reporting they deservto have a full accounting be from g. A. O. Or congress of what happened with the money so theres no question or uncertainty. As far as where the money ended up 40 million to louisiana, mississippi and alabama million to colleges and 20 million to churches. Next Weeks Program is o days before election. Been a long negative battle for. Next week we take an entirely different approach. We go to the home turf the Hillary Clinton and donald trum to find friends and family had may offer the last good word on the candidates for president. Admission is a good thing and sometimes a bad thing. I think her ambition is to do good and i have never doubted that. A lot of people underestimate hiand i can tell you they have been wrong a lot more often than not. People have lost a lot of money underestimating my father. We will follow the money to tre each candidates big donors. That is it this week. Hello, iill lumaye, and thank you for watching we hope youll continue to watch as we discuss issues facing our community, and provide you with the resources and information needed to find solutions. . . . . Shown that High School Student athletes enjoy many benefits of playing sports from increased self confidence and leadership skills to earning higher salaries down the line. 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