Of a singlepayer Health Care System in the u. S. This is just under one hour. [no audio] definitions. Doctor, how would you define washington journal continues. Host were going to engage in a discussion look at the topic of singlepayer health care. Two guest joining us, Michael Tanner with the cato institute. He serves as a senior fellow. And dr. Margaret flowers is a National Board advisor for the physicians for a National Health program. Of you, good morning. Lets start with definitions. Doctor, how would you define singlepayer as a working definition as far as health care is concerned . The easiest way is to call it National Improved Medicare for all. National, every person living in the country, and of the Health Professional in the country, is in the system. It is more comprehensive and there are no upfront outofpocket costs like copays or deductibles. Then medicare for all, everybody pays into it through a preventive tax, and everybody is covered for the care they need. That is c
Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Continues. On journal host welcome back. Yasmeen abutaleb is with us, a Reuters Health care reporter. Were talking about some of the administrations decisions with costsharing reductions. Guest thank you for having me. Host explain the these actually are. Americansut 6 million get the cost sharing reduction and they help lower outofpocket medical expenses for low income americans. 100 ally people between and 250 for the federal Poverty Level and they are buying insurance on the obamacare markets. Insurers the payments are made directly to the insurers but they can subsidize a greater portion of Peoples Health care costs. People from premium increases and high deductibles and copays and that sort of thing. The administration has been paying these on a month by month basis . Guest this started under the Obama Administration. The house of representatives sued the Obama Administration saying these payments needed an appropriation from congress. The
Once they walk in the door, drink from the fire hose. Whether democrat or republican really doesnt make much differ. 45 trillion Dollar Agency to run and a lot going on. Big issue of repeal and replace, what do we do, nothing like that i saw in aviator 2001 one of the top National Issues. Im not sure where they are going with it but secretary price who i have known for years, these guys have, too, new administrator going to be they are way ahead of the game. What are they talking about now, my experience 88 transition a long time ago. Im actually 106 years old. We didnt do anything. We got people confirmed. Nobody sat around anderson talked about health care policies. I talked to Tommy Thompson, president bush, wanted to do it, privatizing medicare, medicaid in may. Gave a list of things to do, changed the name of the agency just to make people mad. Through part d maybe in may. December ive never seen anything like this. This is way out of the normal time schedule in my experience. Do
Scott mcgrew, this week i learned two things, one, fico, the Company Famous for the fico score, does not decide your Credit Rating. Who knew . And also fico is headquartered in Silicon Valley, about two blocks from this studio. Again, who knew . Will lansing is ceo of fico, i assume he walked over here from his office, hes past ceo of fingerhut, info space, joined by Mark Sullivan and laura mondaro of u. S. A. Today. Lets start with this idea that fico doesnt my fico score is so important. But somehow youre not the Credit Rating . The way it works is were an Analytics Company and we produce the algorithm and the score. But we dont have any data. So the data is held by a credit bureau, by someone else. And they use our algorithm to produce the score, which they then share with banks, thats how the credit determination is made. I have a macys bill, i dont pay the macys bill. Its expeerian or others who know i depart pay the bill and they tell you . Exactly. Were, a bank is trying to figu
Umbrella. We have lots of rain showers to the north and to the south and pocket of yellow with moderate to heavy downpours now in throughout windsor and santa rosa and cloverdale. Tamales you hear the heavy rain. Fairfield light rain, vacaville, rio vista junction. Theres a swath of precipitation around oakland on highway 13 connecting to 580. We have the rain streaming back to the 580 680 corridor. Santa cruz mountains which has already seen half a foot of rain yesterday alone light to moderate rainfall continues in the ben lomond area. Right now river levels 33 approaching 34 feet at the Russian River near Johnsons Beach in guerneville. We anticipate it to recede later today but its cresting now. High wind advisory not for today. Tomorrow its going to be very windy again very similar conditions to yesterday. Here is the setup. We now have a series of little cold fronts that are going to begin to roll through on thursday. Today just some light precipitation here and there mostly right