That mandate equal coverage for physical and Mental Health care. Mental Health Care Providers testified about difficulties in implementing a federal health care parity law. This hearing of the house energy and subcommittee on health is an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, if youll take your seats, well start. The subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to make a note that members may be filtering in and out throughout the hearing. Unfortunately, the condensed september session, there are a number of scheduling conflicts this morning. But we wanted to be sure to have this important hearing before congress recessed at the end of the month. With that being said, chair recognize himself for an Opening Statement. Todays Health Subcommittee hearing will examine the federal Mental Health parity laws and regulations. In 2008, Congress Passed a bill requiring most Group Health Plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of Mental Illnesses comparable to what
John how is it fun to learn . They just teach us and of fun way. John you guys look forward to going to school in the morning . Yes,. John interested in math. Yes. Reading a. Rating. John work . [laughter] john that charter gets top test scores and spends less money per student. No, not all charters are great. Some are worse than regular schools. Thats okay. If a charter is bad, it fails and goes away. That is what brings improvement. By contrast, for years the government monopoly schools never closed. Kids were trapped. The beauty of charters or vouchers or tax credit for schools is choice. Al at least some parents can take the school they think best and if it isnt taken tickets elsewhere. That competition, the beginning of a freemarket will make schools better. That is our show. Well see you next week. Lou good evening, everybody. The sequester has been in effect now since march 1st. Six full days of sequestered, and not the single sign of armageddon or the apocalypse at president ob
We bear the cost of research and development for medicine for the entire world which dramatically decreases their medical costs and is not fair to compare our cost with other countries. Interesting. Finally tonight, that spread chocolate peanut butter. People going crazy over it. The Dining Program at Columbia University cannot keep the Chocolate Hazelnut topping in stock. The rush for this week trip is costing them 5,000 a week. Theyre going to 100 pounds each state. It is so popular, students are filling up to go cups and pouring it. As much as i love it, it seemed like spending more than a quarter Million Dollars on a job every year is making it hard for universities to bring that cost. Many students should settle for been a better and jellylike adding college. Maybe mom and dad can spend some. Thank you for joining us. We will see right back here tomorrow. Lou good evening, everybody. The sequester has been in effect now since march 1st. Six full days of sequestered, and not the si
With cement and putting u. N. Tags on them. The sheer scale of this site, 25 square kilometers, is an indication of iraqs previous commitment to weapons of mass destruction. Now containers like these are put across the door to stop it continuing. It was there in 2002. Here he is right now, nic robertson, Senior International correspondent joining us from baghdad. We should reiterate the state department is suggesting that this is not a huge threat. But take me back to that trip there, nic, in 2002. What do you remember about it . Reporter this was a very derelict looking site. We know it had been bombed in the first gulf war in 1991. The weapons inspector had been there in the mid90s as well to cement that stuff up. This was sort of an inspection check. It was really it was a place that felt it was just being unused. It wasnt really getting any attention. L comparing me to comparing then, theyve only gotten older and rustier since then. The reality is, isis, theyre fighting with tribal
Meet with kim jong un. Jillian richardson is at the state department. Leland is at joint base andrews where the hostages arrived home just a short time ago. Reporter not much good happens after midnight tonight and overnight. What a site at 3 00 in the morning. All smiles and with very good reason by donald trump, the Vice President , the three americans as they made their way down the steps from the plane that brought them all the way back across the pacific, those three american detainees are at Walter Reed Medical Center undergoing a number of evaluations. Their physical health, as we watch them walk down the stairs and smiled for the press and wave, they appeared to be in fairly decent physical health. Then there is the Emotional Health the psychologists at walter reed will deal with, there year in captivity by the North Koreans and their detention inside that country. Donald trump was excited and jubilant as he greeted these three men. He was inside their plane for 10 or 15 minute