Explain the president s order and how it will bring down prices. Sec. Azar i think we will look back at this executive order as one of the major fundamental ships in American Health care reform that we will have ever experienced. For your viewers and folks like us who understand markets and customers, you cannot have a market without price and quality information. Ist the president is doing ordering us to have hospitals disclose information based on their negotiated rates they have been consumer friendly, machinereadable format. The is making us put out requirements so Insurance Companies give you the patient information on the list price, the negotiated price, and your expected outofpocket before you go to the doctor and before you go to the hospital so you can make an informed choice. David that sounds good. With marketsal believe in markets based on the transparency of information. As a practical matter, these things can get complicated. How are we going to make sure the information
How about china trade . Thats a standoff. Lighthizer and mnuchin have been on the phone to their chinese counterparts. The chinese say we called them. President xi and President Trump will meet just within days. Back home, a standoff on money for the border crisis. The democrats cannot agree among themselves on new cash for detention facilities. Children are suffering. A vote on emergency aid which was supposed to take place today might not even make it to the floor of the house. Just wait until you see how gold and bitcoin are reacting to all of this. And wait until you hear about a massive 60 billion buyout in the pharma business. Lets get on with it. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart right. This is a whopping great big merger. Got to tell you about it. Abbvie says it will acquire allergan in a deal valued at 63 billion. Ash, what does allergan have that makes it worth this huge premium offer . Ashley nearly 16 billion a year in revenue from a lot of beauty products. 16 billio
First so breaking news right now,ross h perotas died. He lo a fivemonthth battle wi leukemia. He was known a a true selfmade billionaire. He grew up in the great debregs keom graduated fr 1953 and moved to dallas to ta a sales job with ibm. He ran for president ice as an independent in 1992, d again in 1996. He leaves behind his wife, five children and 16 grandchildren. Ross perot was 89 years old. Back here in the Washington Area its all about the cleanup, follong yesterdays severe flooding. Take a look at some of the damage on prosperity avenue on morningside drive in fairfax county, this road has hugeks cracn it because of the rain yesterday. The road is shut down while crews work to repair it. Continuing our Team Coverage now in montgomery county, are working to close up a sinkhole on belfast road. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, what you see m behinde is part of a complex repair process to fix a massive sinkhole. And right now, its temporarily open tots r who need to g
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