Calm after the storm, lucy . It certainly is. A quieter day on the cards. But there are heavy showers to look out for. Ill have more of the detail also on extreme weather temperatures across the globe. Also, water on tap plans to set up thousands of free water refill points in a bid to cut the number of plastic bottles that we use. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live. Im simon parole board coy. Just a couple of hours ago in a bbc interview theresa may said the uks relationship with the United States was as strong as it ever has been and right now, shell be finding out if thats true as she talks to donald trump for the First Time Since their transatlantic twitter spat over extremism. Theyre both in davos in switzerland for the World Economic forum. Shes just finished a speech there telling her audience that britain is at the forefront of Digital Business and ai. She also told the Big Tech Companies to clean up their act. We need to go further, she said, to prevent the spread of harmf
Senate plan. That is what the Congressional Budget Office projects. Explain how they, up with that number and what it means in the 10 years the cbo report covers. Guest they have a collocated and sophisticated peter model. Sophisticated computer model. They will offset the gains and losses, they ended up with 15 million you are people would e medicaid after 10 years 50 million fewer people would have medicaid after 10 years. There would be a lot of constraints on medicaid from the federal government. It would be capped for the first time. States would get less money. There would be fewer people. Help would go further down the income scale. The insurance they could buy would be less generous. People would not find it valuable to spend money for insurance that they would not be able to use because their deductibles and outofpocket spending would be so high. Those are the big top lines. This is compared to current law. The number with the insurance would double. The cbo did not like down
Guest unlike the exchanges and subsidies, available to anybody in the United States, the Medicaid Expansion will only be available to those states that have chosen to do so. Host one of our followers on Facebook Says Health Insurance would be as expensive as Car Insurance if it could be sold across state there. Just an opinion how does it work from one state to another . Guest there is a provision in the federal health law that allows for Insurance Plans to be sold across state lines as long as the states sign the contract compactwith one another. That is actually an option. In terms of medicaid, you live in the state you live in and you qualify for your state Medicaid Program or you dont. There is a lot of confusion around medicaid and who actually qualifies for it. I think there is a general sense that if you are poor in the United States to get medicaid, you get medicaid, which is not the case at all right now. You have to be pregnant, you have to have dependent children, you have t
Were really proud of all of you, including the nurses, the doctors, the porters, all those who work in care homes and the ambulance teams. Lets get your protective equipment and your tests from the government soon. Anything to say, girls . Thank you thank you, nhs. From the young and from the older. Mark bowdens dad jack, 99 years young, has beaten it. Im clapping very, very loudly for the nhs. Id like to say a huge thank you for all the nurses and the doctors at royal bolton hospital, in particular ward da. Theyve been looking after my father jack bowden, who is fast approaching his 99th birthday. Hes been in and out of hospital now for the last two weeks, as he tested positive with covid 19. Ive heard today that hes doing fantastically well. It looks like hes making a full recovery, and apparently today the nurse said that he was sat up out of bed. We, the staff at lewisham endoscopy theatres, are thanking you for clapping for the nhs. Now we are clapping and saying thank you for sta
This is bbc news im kasia madera. The headlines at 8pm. Tougher restrictions in scotland as pubs, restaurants and cafes that sell alcohol across the countrys central belt including glasgow and edinburgh are ordered to shut to slow the spread of coronavirus. Without action, and this is perhaps the starkest warning in todays evidence paper, we are likely to return to the peak level of infections we had in the spring by the end of this month. And, the new Restrictions Mean no unnecessary journeys on Public Transport and face coverings will soon be mandatory when moving around workplaces in scotland. As infection rates soar in some cities there are warnings that some hospitals in Northern England are already seeing admissions levels similar to those back in april. Four men have gone on trial over the deaths of thirty nine
vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry in essex. Two ex british alleged Islamic State militants are charged in the United States over the killing of four american host