This isnt about creating a New Washington system to how to figure out how to pay people to provide care. This is much more broadly, about how do we establish policies to allow patients and families to remain in control of their health care and health care decisions. So so why did you guys bring up the reimbursement rates under medicare and medicaid as one of the reasons why there is this lack of adequacy of network i would say providers within some of the plans . I would say it is one of the reasons. Okay. So it so if the congress could help address the reimbursement rates and reform sgr, would that help or hurt the process . I think it all depends on how its done. And, again, id refer you back to the position of the Obama Administration who said in a court filing this year saying theres to general mandate under medicaid to reimburse providers, including hospitals in that, for all or substantially all of their costs. So the position of the medicare, sgr is focused on medicare. But im j
Ceiling. I think we have an obligation to pay our obligations. Have you requested from the office of Legal Counsel of the department of justice, an answer to this question . Congressman, on the question of responsiveness to oversight i very much except i just asked for you to respond in writing to that. Have you asked or your department asked whether or not you can prioritize debt . The question of prioritization is fundamentally a policy question. As your comments reflected, i do not believe nor does any president nor treasury secretary let me ask you to answer my question. I have one minute 54 seconds left. Have you asked the department of justices office of Legal Counsel whether or not you have the authority in the event of not raising the debt ceiling to prioritize debt payments . The issue of whether or not that decision is made is fundamentally a president ial decision. Have you as treasury secretary, your department, requested from the office of Legal Counsel . It would fundamen
Ways cant come soon enough, wolf. We have been talking about that for some time. And why do they believe it is going to spread more rapidly than influenza . Well, it is, you know, it seems to be pretty contagious. They are starting to do the modeling and looking at how likely the virus has been in the area, and how many people are infected as a result, and as a result, how contagious it is. And typically, you are thinking of the flu as going from one person to maybe one or two people, and with coronavirus, it is going from one person to two or three people. Itarly on and they have to do more modeling, but you could have more patients with this coronavirus than influenza within a few weeks. What are you going to be linsing for in this news conferen conference . Well, keeping in mind what to expect with the numbers increasing and we expect they will as we will see with the new testing coming in, and are we ready is the question. There is modeling coming from the federal government, itsel
The ship who may need help. I recommended very strongly in our meetings that we get those people off that ship. We dont want to have a repeat of what we saw at the diamond pribs yeprincess, where the sh became almost a hotspot of transmission. I feel strongly about getting them off there and getting them under the appropriate quarantine and or care for those that are sick. Cnn medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here, also omar jimenez near a nursing home in Washington State thats been linked to more than a dozen deaths from the virus. Elizabeth, the u. S. Surgeon generals message today, by and large, was dont panic. Right, of course. And you know what, we should never panic. It is never good to panic. Instead, we should be smart. And speaking of being smart and sort of working with this outbreak, an interesting shift in tone from the Surgeon General and other federal officials today about how to handle this coronavirus outbreak. Theyve been saying were moving from containment to
Field has narrowed with moderates beginning to coalesce behind joe biden. The former Vice President winning several new endorsements including from former rivals. Coordinated efforts to stop Bernie Sanders now thrust into view. Could stabment support for biden backfire and rile up sanders supporters who disdain the powers that be . Sanders remains the frontrunner in many of the big states voting today like california. Hes fond of denouncing the 1 but the big number today, 15 . Candidates must reach a threshold vote of 15 to win any delegates. To see why that is important think back to nevada. When others failed to reach 15 they were excluded and sanders won two thirds of the delegates with only 41 of the popular vote. Reporter on the eve of super tuesday joe biden here in texas trying to project a message of strength and unity as three of his former rivals met with him here and officially endorsed his president ial campaign. Its been quite the turn of events for joe biden over the cour