Across the nation more than 82 billion in direct spending in one year. The highest burden is in the south where it cost about 35 billion in one year. Are you concerned not expanding medicaid would exacerbate the disparities and leave more people as the sickest in our nation and increase the financial costs in the end . They are going to come to you at some point without having Preventive Care or Health Care Maintenance when they are very sick and cost the state more. Thank you very much to focus the attention on what all of the coverage is supposed to address, which is people oppose the Health Status and outcomes. In my state and states nearby, was a great disparity in diabetes and obesity. We have looked at the outcomes on medicaid and we do not see a great bit of difference. We have a system not turning out the kind of Health Outcomes we would expect for the amount of money we put a in. We have looked at expanding medicaid. Let me show you some numbers around it. Chairman waxman went
He was finishing a press conference down the hall. With every passing day, the republicans are calling on john banner to guarantee tax cuts to the middle class. Today, sen. Cornyn will be the second ranking republican next congress. Theyll call upon john bennett to the reasonable thing. They will have this below sooner or later. Those rates go up by operational law on dec. 31. Luol and he said this all, this is true. Within threequarters of the American People including 61 of republicans agree with john corn john cornyn that they cannot be held hostage were giveaways to billionaires. He cannot ignore the American People forever. At some point reality should set in. The only question is how much the trusts sole class families and how much they will have to endure during this process. Many other pieces of business critical to middleclass families that we will be working on if we resolve the fiscal cliffs. The three leaders here with me will talk about that today. They are waiting and wai
Photo by Jason Masters A longtime news director at KTLO is among those being inducted into the Mountain Home Education Foundation's Hall of Honor Thursday night
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