Talks about efforts to evaluate and approve new pharmaceutical treatments. And the fda role in combatting the nations Opioid Epidemic. This is an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. Im part of bloombergs breaking nouz desk. Im Vice President of the club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone to please silence your phones. For our viewing and listening audience, please feel free to also follow the program on twitter using the hash tag npc live. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id like to ask you to please hold your applause until all guests are introduced. And guests id like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, we have sarah reporter for nature magazine. Tam ra hinten. Founder and chief strategist. Mcwilliams, seen your advisor to the fda commissioner. A washington correspondent with usa today. Jennifer rodriguez assistant commissioner for media affairs. Medicine and Healt
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Trump about how we could end up in a major, major conflict in his words. Did put some pressure, if you see the nikkei, down about 0. 3 . Same with the hang seng. In europe this morning n some early tlading, things are mixed. The ftse is down by 0. 25 . The cac is up by that much. The dax is up by 0. 10 . With crude oil prices this morning, looks like wti is still below 50. Up 27 cents. Tech stocks on the move this morning. After quarterly reports late yesterday. Lets give around up of whats going on. Amazon eps tops estimates by 36 cents. Saying revenue from the Cloud Business, advertising and Subscription Services helping to drive those results. Alphabet beating the street on both the top and bottom line. Strong ad sales sending profits up 29 , despite some advertisers boycotting youtube. And microsofts ref knew ju revenue just missed consensus. Sales of the Cloud Services platform jumped 93 in the quarter. Last but not least, look at intel. Reporting lower than expected quarterly rev
With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states. Menstruates are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so today well talk about our our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so where we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, what is under discussion, and well talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So, we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Theres one empty estate and that belongs to trish riley, but because of the crazy weather in trish wont be able to get into town and so she will not be with us but fear not, our three other panelists here watch what is happening in the states closely and will be able to give us a full puck picture. First we have Diann Rowland from the Kaiser Family foundation. Diane was also the inaugural chair of macpack,
More now from the alliance for health reform. This next panel takes a look at the challenges facing medicaid. Theres a discussion on healthcare trends. This is an hour and a half. With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid. Some additional states. Many states are talking to cms about what might be possible in way of their talking about waivers, what can be done. So today well talk about our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year. What the aca did, where we are with medicaid. Whats under discussion and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch wha