Find seats and we will try to get started here. My name is ed howard. I am with the alliance for Health Reform. I want to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors. I want to welcome you to the program on health and housing with an emphasis on the relationship between medicaid policy at the Community Level at the state level and the federal level as well. This is actually a first in a threepart series and we will explore the intersection of social policy over the next couple months. In october, i believe its october 9, you will be looking at how well Health Services correlate with nonmedical home and unity based services. Then in december we will examine some of the emerging issues in connection between health and incarceration, which is is a growing area of concern and activity. There is a connection between health and various determinants and we will look at the strength of that connection during this briefing and the subsequent ones in the theory. You may have seen yesterday t
Hard to get clean when you are living on the streets. The Supportive Housing with that model. Any of us can go home tonight and have a drink and is perfectly all right to do in our homes. Its an opportunity as well. We need to work with people where they are in the stabilizing and for housing so we have got that stability so people have a place for medication they have a place to put an appointment cards and keep track of time and a stable place where we can visit them. Our outreach workers cant find them when they should drown on the streets and in camas change a lot. We need to think about our recent porting housing in this way . A wide range of teambased services, when you combine the stability of housing with Health Care Services a wide range of the things listed here we can really help people be stable in their housing. This is mainstream right now for seniors and people with disabilities. My grandmother gets meals delivered to her and she can having have them come here to help he
He takes some risk with fat as well. We have more forest fires now in california than anybody has ever seen and now messing of the traffic which is sacrilegious by yet it goes up one day then goes down the next. The people say it is a big issue, paying attention. But it will be interesting to see. He understands this issue and he wants to the of the bright side. In an interesting moment for my point of view. But with the popes visit i am learning about how much it cost to travel to a country so with that financial burden to talk so much the impact of this message so food takes charge of that . The cost is the United States will be different than the cost of cameron because washington d. C. In particular and new york are two cities that are very used to do handily enormous events so in terms of cost there is always a security cost and you can go to Capitol Police and the secret service to see how much has been spent then they bring in the occupancy taxes with the department of revenue t
Textwise, our high temperatures in the rearview mirror. It happened just after midnight last night. The temperatures have been doing a steady downhill slide ever since. Thats going to continue here through the remainder of the afternoon and into the evening. Chills down near 10 by 5 00 and chills at or below temperatures dropping into the mid teens by later on this evening. An update on the snow chances in a few more minutes with a very cold forecast between now and the weekend. We cant say it enough, it is dangerously cold out there today. With that in mind, some people are making the effort to help those who need it the most. News4s justin finch joins us live where theyre collecting coats in northwest d. C. Good morning, were watching kids from thompson elementary get their free coats courtesy of the Childrens Foundation coats for kids drive. These are kindergartners and first graders, getting their free coats here courtesy of this effort. Now theyre all presized so theyre all walkin
Devastate our Nations Health care system. The American People were promised by the president of the United States, who was so supportive of the bill that even. Entually took his own name his party and the bill would lower premiums by 2,500 per family, per year. He promised the American People that no family making less than 250,000 a year would see any form of tax increase when he became president. He promised the American People that obamacare would be more choice, more competition, and lower costs for millions of americans. Now seven years later, almost to the day, it is abundantly clear that this Affordable Care act, has failed acare, the American People and the Health Care System and the people it was designed to help the most. As to the promises, premiums have increased by an average of 25 this year alone on the obamaCare Exchanges. Ruining the pocketbooks of American Families and a far cry from the 2,500 reduction that they were promised for each family. At least 4. 7 million ame