The specific reasons for these trends will be explained in slides to follow. Regarding the Affordable Care act, all provisions that have become effective since enactment in 2010 are included in our Health Spending estimates because they are reflected in our data that measure total revenues. While our Historical Data cannot parse out the spending that wpj directly the result of the a. C. A. , the projections model show there was minimal impact from the Affordable Care act on aggravate National Health through 2012. Within specific services and payers, we can identify some of the provisions that affected spending for those sectors. However, even within the specific sectors, the impacts were very small and in some sectors, the impacts were offsetting. For example, for private Health Insurance, programs that expanded coverage added to spending while the minimum medical loss ratio had a slight reducing effect. For medicare, a notable fact on spending was from reductions to medicare Payment U
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Journalists look into one california towns decrepit housing. The poets with them are telling their own version of that story, in verse. Im bringing the peoples perspective. See, when you hear our poem, it is like you are listening to the people who are actually living in it. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the interim leaders in ukraine issued a warrant today for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, for the killings of protesters. Yanukovych fled kiev over the weekend for the eastern, pro russian half of the c
Declared a saint. Good morning. This is alJazeera America, and im morgan radford. 17 hours, thats how much Time Congress has to avoid a Government Shutdown. The gop has tied the bill to a one year delay of the Affordable Care act, also known as obamacare. The democratic controlled senate is promising to scrap that provision. The American People overwhelmingly reject obamacare. The only people not listening to the argument are the career politicians in washington. Theres a time and place to debate obamacare but not at a time when millions of innocent people are held hostage if we dont fund the government. Some have come out against the gop strategy and senator Susan Collins of maine is the latest. The bill was sent to the senate this morning and they are expected to send a simple spending measure back to the house, then putting the legislative hot potato back in the lap of john boehner. Lib ewe is live in washington, d. C. Theres been no progress at all between the parties, is there any
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