Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.
Our top story this morning. Bart workers are on strike. No trains are running this morning. Heres a live look at the bay bridge. Over to the Golden Gate Bridge and then the san mateo bridge talks broke down yesterday between the unions and management. Commuters are looking for a plan b this morning. We want to start with kron fours will tran live from 20th and broadway in oakland. I was here and back in july and i cant tell you that the lines are getting much longer and sooner. You can see people in line the buses come along and it barely makes a dent. Here is the video at 5 30 a. M. After we got off the air, a bus pulled up. Look at how awful this was was what it came. People have learned that station hop on the bustling. This buzz was so full of people that some people menaced to hop on and many others were told that they were to fall and was not safe for them to stand. That work left waiting for the next bus to our dry. If you concede there are more people here and if you are just g
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Her party will elect a new leader in the next week. Its 5th and 6th years with former chancellor wishes to knock and even bars. Johnson expected to run out with a mi barker. This is al jazeera life from london, also coming up at the 60 dead off to chad. Security forces. Open fire on protest is demanding a quicker transition to democratic rule. Tribal clashes in sedans, blue knives of state, kill them over the 150 people in 2 days. And ukraines National Grid stone imposing blackouts on its citizens to allow infrastructure destroyed by russia as strikes to be repaired. Ah, you case Prime Minister has resigned to a turbulent 44 days in office full of policy. You terms, market turmoil and cabinet resignations. This trust she, she was quitting because she couldnt deliver the mandate. She was elected on by the tory party after being forced to rip up economic plans. The tories now have one week to elect a new leader with canada as rumored to include former finance minister, richie scenic, and