According to documents from a public records request, the delays are costing the county millions of dollars in lost revenue. A walk through the Santa Clara County hospital bed building shows a project in total disarray. The Turner Construction company was picked to build it but today top county leaders acknowledge millions of dollars have been wasted and the county is losing 100,000 a day in lost revenue. Work records we obtain show the original project contract was 291 million. Turner construction requested an additional 66 million and then another 9 million. The documents show the county agreed to extend the Completion Deadline by more than a year and agreed to other change orders as well. Here is what the project looks like today, two weeks before it is supposed to open. Unfinished rooms and no beds. Im very disappointed. The progress is not where it should be for the delivery of this bed building. This is a patient room, an in tensive care unit and as you can see from top to bottom
The president changed it unilaterally. How can he do that . Look, i mean, i have the flipside of the reaction. Its difficult for the house to get standing but if they mapping to get standing on the aca claims they most likely would win if the court wants to consider them on the merit to take that example, the statute says this has to come into effect, shall come into effect, afternoon 1, 2014. The president says, i wont do that. Thats usually unlawful, and types of doing things of that nature usually get set aside by Supreme Court all the time. Two months ago the Supreme Court slapped down the epa over the statute that says you shall regulate if the polluter issues more than, say, 100 tons per annum. Now, the industry say thats unreasonable, its higher. The court says, you cant do that. If Congress Says you have to do it on these terms. On your point about whether this i terrible food and we want more of it, the people should be entitled to experience the losses of the country as passe
Correctional health care in 2011 which was about 1 in 6 of their entire correctional budget. And that level of spending shouldnt be surprising. This is not a healthy population. That includes a loent of folks with chronic conditions, with Mental Illness, with addiction disorders, and its getting older as the population ages. Ad so its not surprising that states are trying a whole range of different strategies to get r handle on Correctional Health a spending, everything from contracting with third partiesag to deliver the care to having more services delivered on site to taking advantage of new Health Coverage opportunities for inmates. So today wereto going to take a look at how well those cov strategies and some others are working and what kinds of policy changes might be helpful to improve both the quality and the value of the care that this population receives. And as we examine these issues, were pleased to have as a partner in todays program the centine corporation which contract
And said even if they come for 40 seconds they get to say that. Shington journal continues. Host joining us from california, ben shapiro. His most recent book the people versus barack obama the criminal case against the Obama Administration. Do you support what the house is doing in suing the president. Guest i do. It is not the best of all available options, but it is an option in terms of curbing the president s power. The last time the house did this, the president lost 90 at the Supreme Court level. A sillyent is obviously action given the democratic control of the senate. Theyre left with two options, cut funding for some of the president s programs or sue the president , which is what he is doing and which is what they are doing. The washington times, talking about the impeachment issue. He says the democrats are using as a fundraising tool. That it is not a viable option. Guest that is correct, given democratic control of the senate. Republicans were not willing to convict presi
In the district. And a onesentence question. Does the work they do in prison, does that count towards medicare . Social security, medicare. No, it does not. There is a statutory prohibition wow. For medicare paying for any Services Provided behind bars. Thst also a statutory provision that if youre on parole or probation, you cannot receive medicare benefit. On the medicaid side, theres something known as the inmate exception, which goes back again to the original finding of medicaid, which states if youre an inmate of a Public Institution as the exact statutory language, you cannot receive medicaid benefits at all. So again, one of the challenges going back to my comment about islands, and what im hearing you say is we need to figure out creatively how we build bridges to those islands. Obviously, medical records is a part of it. Thinking about bringing standards of care that medicaid brings is another part of it. But at this point, were all very much in the process of understanding i