Thank you steve. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our dc members and or guests. It is wonderful to be here at the Detroit Economic Club. Organization is long attracted some of the nation his most distinguished thinkers and innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participants. Well engage us to the capitated rating discussion about the future of healthcare. The may begin by introducing our guest speakers, someone who ive known for monday years and consider him a mentor and a friend. Scott promises the president and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National federation the source 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through his federation of insurers, covers one out of every three americans. I think this is the very important statistic. What else does this frankly. It serves every zip code in the united states. In every zip code in ame
The pessimism, its palpable, especially for me over the weekend. When the bears always seem to come out of the woodwork and start attacking me, makes you wonder how the market can hang in there with the dow gaining 61 points today, another alltime high, the s p closing down, the has dak ncaa declining the linkage between a dysfunctional washington they know nothing and what amounts to a roaring, rotating bull market. This weekend i found myself in a complicated position after the Senates Health care debacle, ive been bearish on washington all that scaramucci, the mooch drama, it hasnt helped. Friday was the last straw for me we interviewed the manager of the office of manage and budget. Given this administrations track record when it comes to passing legislation, im skeptical that anything can get done i found myself begging him to go for an easy win and focus on repatriation of capital overseas, which would be easy to pass at first, i think mulvaney misunderstood me and thought i was
Lets go live to Jessica Holly standing by live outside the school. Reporter shocking allegations out of Palmetto Senior High School. Parents are just learning that a teacher here is accused of having sex with a student. Good morning. This is victoria dobbs principal of the Palmetto Senior High School calling with an important message. Reporter the message going out about Language Arts teacher jason miers. This week we received inappropriate relationship between male teacher an female student at our school. Reporter the 40yearold teacher arrested and booked at 11 oclock thursday night on Sexual Battery on a minor. It started with allegations of inappropriate relationship between meyers and another student. Based on preliminary invest facing and after consulting with the miamidade state attorneys office, miamidade Schools Police made the arrest. I mean its disgusting. News. We trust teachers and we trust whats around us that our kids are going to be safe. And unfortunately thats not the
Three days. Not only of what is happening in the white house and congress as well. Here is how you can call us host also on social media host some of the headlines reflecting what has been going on here over the past three days. Here is the wall street journal, their headline going to the Washington Post was quot ,d then the Washington Times reaction to last nights meeting , according to boehner, he sums it up this way they will not negotiate. To give us the latest we have and servesroll call as a staff writer. The meeting last night, what was actually accomplished and how did all the sites play out what happened last night . Guest well, good to be with you. Outgeneral sentiment coming of the meeting perhaps best summed up why Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell of who appeared on the cnbc Program Shortly after the meeting. Cordial but unproductive. It went on a fairly long time. But as you just noted in the headlines, a fairly good summary of what seems to have gone on, that the re
Inspiring journey. Remembering the man who shouldve been englands first black player. Jack leslie was the victim of racism, now fans want to see him honoured with a statue outside his club. Good morning. Its going to be a fairly cloudy day today. Having said that, there will be some sunny intervals but there will also be quite a lot of showers, and some of those will be heavy and thundery. Ill have all the details at 6 27am. Carol to come a little bit later on but. Its wednesday 1st of july. Our top story the Worlds Largest aircraft manufacturer, airbus, has announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs including 1,700 in the uk. The Aerospace Giant said it doesnt expect air traffic to return to pre pandemic levels until 2023, calling the Current Situation the gravest crisis the Aviation Industry has ever faced. Andy moore reports. Its a global Aerospace Giant manufacturing a fleet of aircraft, but airbus is being hit by coronavirus like every part of the aviation sector. Thousands ofjobs will be