For them to look at provider directories, the coverage that was talked about and tax season coming up one of the things that will be coming into effect is the shared responsibility fee. Thank you again. Okay, thanks very much, meena. Well turn to dan durham from ahip. Well, good afternoon, thank you, ed and sara. I look forward to talking about where we are in terms of results and expectations and hope to have a lot of good questions and discussion among the Panel Members today. I will focus on health plans top priority, delivering value to consumers. American families want value for the money that they spend on their premium dollars. They want affordable quality coverage and they want choice. The bronze, the pratt numb, tailored networks to prodder provider networks. Health plans are delivering what Consumers Want in a very competitive market. Theyre delivering affordability, value, and choices that meet consumers needs. Health plans are delivering value by negotiating the best price
Injected cash for the first time in over three weeks. Japans nikkei his six or higher, climbing about 16,000 for the First Time Since 2007. In Economic Data in the u. S. , at 7 a. M. , mortgage up, durable goods and new home sales. We will get the Richmond Fed Manufacturing index at 10 as well. What is on the schedule . The new york stock ehange closes at 1 p. M. For the Christmas Eve holiday city can make it to the 2 30 at the 21 Salvation Army lunch. Crack for those of you rushing to trade this morning, you will be opening higher. S p futures up by a point. Oh, look at this 10 year yields. Two point 94 . It is optimism on the economy. People tell you is good news but it is a little reminiscent of the problems weve seen in the past. We will see what it does to mortgage rates. Volatility continues for currencies, this time it is the dollar on top. We saw yesterday complete reversal of the dollar trading higher against the yen, pound and euro. Gasoline and oil prices. Oil is up again to
Infections. As cases surge across the country. Again, the credibility issues of the cdc, thanks to President Trump, will people listen . Welcome to thursday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. 12 days to go. More than 40 million votes have already been cast. Tonights debate in nashville may be the president s last chance to do something to close the gap with joe biden. His window to change the trajectory of this race is closing. Quickly. That immediately raises the question. What could he do right now, tonight, that could change the trajectory of this race . What would that look like for a president with this lack of credibility and this level of instability . Heading into tonight, the president has sought to undermine the confidence in the election results. Last night his director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned that iran is behind a series of spoofed emails that were there to benefit the president , though they claim that iran was trying to embarrass the presiden
Bowe s boxilai. Andrew. Thank you, becky. We have a little bit of Corporate News this morning. Citigroup has suffered a significant decline in trading revenue. It threatens to decline the earnings. Theres a market wide earnings. Shares of blackberry today, the Company Warning on friday that it expects to report a huge quarterly operating loss. It plans to cut more than 1 3 of its global work force. Thats big, big news in blackberry land. Microsoft expected to announce a new surface tablet computer today, including a version with a smaller screen to compete with googles nexus 7. An event is scheduled in new york. Microsoft began selling surface tablets last year but sales have been slow. The changes to the dow are official. Visa, Goldman Sachs and nike are jumping into the blue chip index. Alcoa and hewlettpackard and bank of america, goodbye, youre exiting. Goodbye. If you went to sleep early last night, there are a few highlights from the emmys that you missed. Hbo dominated with the
A question about is this ebola arus the proof we need national one Payer Health Care system . We just saw what happened in texas with this capitalistic Health Care System. Us its going to cost millions and millions to clean that mess up. Andt regarding ebola hospitals not being ready, you had a guest on 89 years ago. I forget the authors name. She wrote a book called pandemic. How areto our hospitals were unprepared. We had a shortage of doctors and nurses. All. Ook said it we were not ready then and we are not ready now. You should have her back on again. Continue to let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Or send us ail us tweet. The cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. An article today in the national journal. Charlie cook reporting on how kansas and georgia could change the equation in the u. S. Senate with computer models that show republicans with a big advantage in georgia, except in the senate race which is looking like a tossup