Who have prior health issues, and, their, theyre still going to be covered, i dont take that away here. But im wondering if the pinch some of these hospitals are feeling doing with the possibility theyre going to bear a disproportionate share of those costs, maybe as they should. Im not here to judge. Stuart fair point, neil. Im sure if you ask a democrat you will figure out the answer on that one. Neil i like way you said that is a fair point. That is figure of speech. Neil. All right. That could be an interesting wrinkle here. It is sort of like the healthy, versus unhealthy, those with prior conditions, versus those without them, and if we have sort of like a medical hatfields and mccoys who goes where, who foots the bill . Blake burman at the white house crunching numbers. White house, to stuarts point, blake is saying well reverse what has been happening now, with a big question what happens to that sick pool of patients now, right . Reporter white house has made it clear, neil. T
Hollywood. A disaster with no end in sight. Hundreds of people are missing as Deadly Wildfires rage through California Wine country. David weil get back to the stories in a moment. Dow hitting alltime high but failing to end the session in positive territory. Nicole petallides on floor of the nyse. What caused a down movement . David, as you know we had bank earnings. That did weigh a little bit. We hit a high in middle of the day for the dow, nasdaq and s p. Dow was 15 points away from dow 23,000. Keep an eye on that. Dow components hit alltime high, they may have you feeling pretty good. Microsoft, j j, boeing and microsoft and caterpillar finishing to the upside. Look at bank earnings. Jpmorgan and citi both beat. We had action back and forth on those stocks. Watch one more, wells fargo. That is all before the bell tomorrow morning. Last but not least, dow component disney did come under pressure but big news for disney. Five major Hollywood Studios joining disney in version of a di
Organizations that accept the risk can save money by directing the price settings and providers. It seems clear that the results improved over time and it also seems the organizations do somewhat better. That is a generalization, s so m sure that there are some tremendous organizations but as a general rule it seems to be the case it helps if you are not a hospital. So, the other thing that is important to understand and i dont know why this is so hard to explain. If you save him by suspending you shared it and that is how sharing works and so if you look after a year you are never going to do as well but im understand the shared savings are the incentives to reduce the savings. If you could share you wouldnt have any savings. We have to worry about a system that is working in 2019 said to be clear i want it to work but im much more interested getting on a path where the Healthcare System will work in 25 and 30 and if we spend all of our time trying to get a big win the risk of abandon
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Introducing each panelist in the then go on. So i will start with one of the nations most highly regarded economist. What distinguishes this model the brilliant on the theory and research of more than any other economist he understands how markets work. But he also said sits on the benefits committee where he learns firsthand why were not the least efficient. Is that fair to say . [laughter] he also serves on the panel of Health Advisers with the board of directors and vice chair of mudpack we have the good fortune to have him serve on the foundation and vice three board one of the pioneers of value based insurance design to evaluate medicare and private sector organizations please join me to welcome him to the panel. [applause] i am thrilled to be here they have done an incredible job it is great to see all of you here so i will talk broadly about benefit design because bob is going to talk about the budget i am not sure bob would have this but what did they have in common . If they e