Largest care player in the american, a huge growing federal entitlement. And a little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees and total Program Spending will double today, roughly. Its 1 trillion. And within ten years it will be nearly 2 trillion. At the same time, medicare is changing. Today, half of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or a system of private coverage, which is the alternative to traditional medicare. And Medicare Advantage is a defined contribution. And what that means is, is that the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary to the beneficiary chosen plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare. The question before the house and before the nation is a very, very big one. That is, how do we provide high quality medical care to a huge and, rapidly growing older population, often at a cost that is affordable not only to seniors, but a
head south to mexico, a migrant caravan is making its way north. the lead starts right now. senior u.s. officials are urging the counterparts to do a lot more to drive down the number of border encounters. a record number of migrants is overwhelming both sides of them order, they are facing a barrage of complaints from elected officials who were usually on his side. we will explain. talking 2024, the latest development to keep trumps name off state primary ballot. they responded to a challenge of trump s eligibility, why is it the merit and their spending so confidently yet so many do not think the economy is doing well? we will investigate the finances and feeling heading into the new year. welcome to the lead, i am beyond got in for tapper. top officials are in mexico looking for help in slowing the surge of migrants at the u.s. border. the pictures show how urgent the crisis has become, we have 6000 migrants around the u.s./mexico border yesterday, that s a drop from wha
interview as a contender. todd: the governor will become the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring on heels of south carolina senator tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has everything you need to know ahead of tonight. good morning. lucas: good morning. this move has been months in the making, now official, florida governor ron desantis will declare he s a 2024 presidential candidate tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and will be for first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida first lady has a video on twitter showing the governor in front of a large american flag backstage with loud applause heard in the distance. they call it fate, in the face of darkness, you see brighter future, faith our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth
border state democrats. the ability to close four wide gaps in yuma will better protect migrants that could drown in a low section hoff the colorado river. the biden administration must do much more. even if we build new walls, if you have the department of justice, the biden administration incentivizing and criminalizing people coming here and the consequences, you ll continue to see this escalating violence and americans dying. the white house claims this is not a flip-flop on the border wall. we re not finishing a wall. we re cleaning up the mess that the prior administration made. we re trying to save lives, this is what the prior administration left behind that we re cleaning up. since migrants starting arriving in washington d.c., mayor bowser wants to call in the d.c. national guard. they say due to a significant uptick from covid-19, the readiness of the d.c. guard has been severely degraded and the d.c. national guard does not have a standing domestic respons
session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo