Thank you steve. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our dc members and or guests. It is wonderful to be here at the Detroit Economic Club. Organization is long attracted some of the nation his most distinguished thinkers and innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participants. Well engage us to the capitated rating discussion about the future of healthcare. The may begin by introducing our guest speakers, someone who ive known for monday years and consider him a mentor and a friend. Scott promises the president and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National federation the source 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through his federation of insurers, covers one out of every three americans. I think this is the very important statistic. What else does this frankly. It serves every zip code in the united states. In every zip code in ame
Friday following the jobs reports and the apple drag in the amazon drag. Asia though, we are coming off a little bit, if youre looking for us in aligning. 167 on the benchmark right now. A little bit of a pickup following the china open. Indonesia coming online. Hang seng is flat. Oil is very much in focus today. We are coming off a little bit of highs earlier on. We are getting some upside as far as the shanghai contract is concerned. You are getting a followthrough move in wheat prices in the early goings this monday. 2. 5 , 650 a bushel on wheat. Conversations around no recession, soft landing, no landing. Yvonne yeah, you have u. S. Funding needs versus what the demand for bonds overall being weighed on the back of what we saw last week. One of the worst weeks when it comes to global bonds as well as stocks. For some time now, its the start of something. Certainly want to watch. Especially when you are starting to see china not really emerge from this postcovid recovery in the way
Targeted the port of haifa. Establishing a branch to deal with violations of expensive sales in markets and crowded places on the eve of nowruz. The last warning of the chief of punishment to the managers of internet taxis , remove the option im in a hurry or you will be fined. In the name of god the compassionate alrahim allah , peace and blessings be upon ali muhammad and his family, good morning, dear viewers, the Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the organization of islamic cooperation with the release of a joint statement on the unconditional and as soon as possible cessation of the war in the single gaza strip. In this statement, which was published after the extraordinary meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation in jeddah, saudi arabia, the opening of humanitarian crossings for the entry of emergency aid to gaza was emphasized. The Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the organization of islamic cooperation warned about the danger of continued genoci
Targeted the gathering of their military equipment, and a thick layer could be seen from the barkat risha base to the northwest sky of the occupied territories. Hezbollah also targeted two other gatherings, one in tihat hill and the other behind baghdadi base, with its guided missiles today. Hezbollah also the largest base of the zionist military in the heights of the occupied shiba mausoleum and the occupied teps of kufr and roysat alam base. It was an hour ago that with its guided missiles , zionist regime fighters targeted seven areas in southern lebanon, including kafra tirharfa and hula, from this morning until now. Lebanese were martyred. Also, the zionist regime artillery attacked 5 areas in southern lebanon, including the marjayoun plain, as well as rasha or fakhar, and the military and zionist settlements in the northern territories of lebanon. Israeli occupation today, the sound of danger sirens was heard this evening and almost an hour ago in 9 military and zionist settlemen
Was welcome back to our program. Mark morial, the National Urban league president. Discussion right now on the state of black america. Thats the sandal report that the national has released this year since the 1970s. Mr. Morial, the name of this years report is democracy in peril, the threat within. Why that name . First of, all let me thank you for having me. Good morning. To all the cspan viewers and listeners, that name is because when we look at the last several years, we witnessed a distinct effort to undermine americas mobocracy. Just yesterday, four people were convicted in a federal court of attempting to overthrow the United States government. By blocking the transfer of power after the 2020 election. And now there have been any number of people who have been indicted, who have tried, had their day in court and have been convicted in an effort to undermine democracy. We decided to dig deep into this question. What we found is, literally, hundreds of bills introduced in the sta