The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
American express reports earnings after the bell, but critics say perks are not what they used to be and it is weighing on the dao component. We have a debate on it. How much the credit card craze is happening amongst millennials. Intense, yes. Thats ahead. We begin with ibms fall after reporting its 20th consecutive quarter of year on year revenue decline. The company cfo discussed that when we spoke to him after those results. That 20 quarter headline is probably not the framing that were thinking about. Were thinking about how do we continue to move the business and our clients to get to growth. Now, the portfolio, the portfolio will grow. I am confident that the ibm company will grow again, but it is taking you know, were taking time. Our baub pisani over by the trading post with more. It is weighing on the market today, bob . Great. Good to see you. Theres a new risk to the market and thats earnings risk. We havent had it before. Let me show you ibm. They normally do four million
Nicki alongside janessa webb. To get out you have to have a jacket on, its a little chilly. Borderline cold and youre going to explain that. Almost chilly, we cant say that were cold yet. Its cold. We have spots that are in the upper 20s this morning, some of the coolest air of the season so far, so this is the southern richland county, lexington, good morning, 29 degrees. Ashland county, you have been up and down with the temperatures this morning, upper 20s to lower 30s. It will be a throughout your afternoon, but the weather off to a pretty slow start. So lets show you southern medina county, below that freezing mark, sitting at the freezing mark for northern Summit County in fairlawn. This is where that warm air is trending in here from the west from elyria to North Ridgeville, westlake, strongsville, youre currently at 41 degrees. Its due to all this High Pressure that continues to spin across ohio valley, but today a transition in our winds. Theyre going to come out of so slightl
Nicki alongside janessa webb. To get out you have to have a jacket on, its a little chilly. Borderline cold and youre going to explain that. Almost chilly, we cant say that were cold yet. Its cold. We have spots that are in the upper 20s this morning, some of the coolest air of the season so far, so this is the southern richland county, lexington, good morning, 29 degrees. Ashland county, you have been up and down with the temperatures this morning, upper 20s to lower 30s. It will be a throughout your afternoon, but the weather off to a pretty slow start. So lets show you southern medina county, below that freezing mark, sitting at the freezing mark for northern Summit County in fairlawn. This is where that warm air is trending in here from the west from elyria to North Ridgeville, westlake, strongsville, youre currently at 41 degrees. Its due to all this High Pressure that continues to spin across ohio valley, but today a transition in our winds. Theyre going to come out of so slightl