Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Virtually no opposition, the Bangladesh Government wins by a landslide. Going back to basics in india could make the country a global milk provider. Thousands of people are fleeing the iraqi cities of fallujah after days of violence after the army faces resistance of tribesmen and alqaeda linked fighters and they say they have taken over parts of key cities in the providence and its preparing to retake fallujah and many people abandoned their homes and heading to a sea and majority area and seen as relatively safe. The United States says it supports iraqs fight against alqaeda but not sending troops. We are in contact with tribal leaders from Manbar Providence and showing great courage in standing up against this as they reject terrorist groups from their cities. And this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided sometime ago when we left iraq and we are not contemplating returning and not contemplating putting boots on the ground b
In people told to stay indoors to prevent life threatening arctic temperatures. Im sarah burns, with stories including lawyers of the party of egypt ousted president outline their ca case against te military in london. The london black cab gets a new year makeover. South sudans president has requested the deployment of joint forces with sudan, to protect oil fields which are threatened in if south. Salva kiir is peteing in juba the capital of the south. Nearly came to war over issues less than two years ago. Less than a thousand people have been killed, in recent fighting with Government Forces in south sudan. Those loyal to kiirs exvice president , riek machar. In we came here to understand what we can do to stop this war. Our belief is that military solutions does not sof the problem, and the problems are very complicated so the people will at the end sit and negotiate until they reach an agreement. In the capital khartoum. We come to you sort of in the middle. What do you know of th