Sen. Sanders let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. Let me thank our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its impact and blah, blah, blah. But the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people the American People want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the protocol here in t
[chatter] long briefing. [chatter] all sanders let me thank of you for being here this afternoon. Our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its blah. And blah, blah, but the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [applause] [cheers] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the protocol here in the senate, let me menti
Middleclass folks. s that was fake news . That would not fall into the fact checkable world. Some of the platforms that many in the audience myself love, facebook, twitter, using Search Engines like google are wrapped up into your committee company, to feel these platforms are undermining our democracy . I know it feels like its a story that never ends, but lets look at what we do know. What 99. 9 of everyone in washington believes, with the exception of maybe one individual. We know that russia using it services massively intervened by hacking into both Political Parties releasing information that helped one candidate at the detriment of hillary clinton. It needs more investigation but thats pretty certain. The second thing, rush intervened and attacked, didnt break into voter files but literally attacked 21 states electoral systems. One of great frustrations ive had since the spring was the fact that the department of Homeland Security would not tell the officials in those 21 states
Subsidies. Lets start on the subsidies and and how hat they are this is going to impact the Affordable Care act. Guest the same and how this is going to impact the Affordable Care act. Subsidies have been hearing about for months now, since trump took office. The subsidies, they help cover things like copayments, deductibles, outofpocket costs for lowincome people. The funny thing here with the subsidies, insurers have to give them to enrollees who are below a certain income level. The problem is that republicans had a lawsuit saying congress didnt authorize the payments to be made to insurers. So the question has been is the administration, start with the Obama Administration, is the administration making these payments illegally since Congress Never passed a law saying, ok, these can be paid. So then when trump came into office, it was republican versus republican, so trump the court case has continued to be delayed. It seems that yesterday trump timely made the decision hes going to
Announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal. We begin in open phones. Let us know your thoughts on any of the Public Policy issues. 202 ican callin at 7848001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independence 202 7488002. You can also catch us on social media. Good right a morning to you. Our lead story this morning involves puerto rico, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and headline. We have frontpage stories. On the Iran Nuclear Deal, President Trump will announce his policy toward a iran. P. M. T is happening at 1245 the president is acted to address the value voters summit. 10 30s happening around a. M. The president is acted to have his address. The big news out of the lighthouse was the health care front and politico broke the story. The posted the story about subsidies any plan changes. Is going to cut off subsidy payments in his most aggressive move yet to undermine the Health Care Law or it law. 7 subsidies are worth billion this year. They are paid out in monthly installments. They may stop im