Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Continues. On journal host welcome back. Yasmeen abutaleb is with us, a Reuters Health care reporter. Were talking about some of the administrations decisions with costsharing reductions. Guest thank you for having me. Host explain the these actually are. Americansut 6 million get the cost sharing reduction and they help lower outofpocket medical expenses for low income americans. 100 ally people between and 250 for the federal Poverty Level and they are buying insurance on the obamacare markets. Insurers the payments are made directly to the insurers but they can subsidize a greater portion of Peoples Health care costs. People from premium increases and high deductibles and copays and that sort of thing. The administration has been paying these on a month by month basis . Guest this started under the Obama Administration. The house of representatives sued the Obama Administration saying these payments needed an appropriation from congress. The
Gulf, where ten american sailors aboard two american vessels were captured by teheran. As they were moving from bahrain to kuwait, iran said that they would release them shortly reporter this started around noon or 1 p. M. Eastern on tuesday, when when the boots left kuwait and were headed to ba hain and thats when the iranian authorities took them into custody, and they said that the sailors are prisoners, but the u. S. Said that theyre simply in custody, and they hope that teheran returns them as promptly as possible. U. S. Secretary of state, john kerry, has been in contact with the iranian officials, but however, its not clear how quickly these ten sailors can beer returned to u. S. Custody as the Obama Administration wants. Of course this is happening a couple of weeks after another incident involving iranian and military forces in the gulf. The hss hairy s. Truman was sailing through the straits of hor muthe when it came near iranian gunships, and they fired off rockets away from
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