We cant lose ground. The new treatments can be extremely expensive and cost as much as 1,000 a pill. I understand the v. A. Has been able to negotiate with the Drug Companies to a lower cost. And ive heard estimates that v. A. Is instead paying closer to 600 a bill, is that correct . I you may not have a answer. I would like to not have to answer that question. We work very slowly and collaboratively with the manufacturers of those drugs and have been able to reach attractive arrangements for the continued purchase of those drugs. And we continue to have those conversations. My what im curious about is if maybe our veterans are maybe choosing to go to v. A. As opposed to the private care or tricare or other options because they might get access to this medication more easily and the doctors might be able to get the treatment done in a more timely manner . I think that is certainly the case. If a veteran who is medicare eligible was to go to a private provider, he would wind up with a v
Ive read of waivers that schools have to know the mpr piece. None of them have been approved. More on that later. One last question. Im annie martin from the orlando sentinel. My question has to do with the accountability for schools that are receiving either the Tax Credit Program money or voucher money. In our state it seems like the parents are the primary mechanism of accountability for schools and the philosophy is if the schools not getting the job done the parents will put their kids elsewhere, but theres also not a lot of Public Information available about the schools that receive this money in terms of how kids performed on standardized tests or whos teaching at the school or what kind of qualifications we have and im interested to hear this groups take on that issue. So given our time. What im going to say is if you can boil it down to 30 seconds and if you want to share one or two of the questions that you were suggesting journalists should pursue as they cover choice progra
Strong through the delta, gusting at 28 miles an hour meaning that cool pacificare continues to move through, pacific air continues to move through. 88 in antioch, 86 and concord, low 80s in santa rosa, south bay looking just this nice or an afternoon high of 80. In san jose and around the bay a lot of 70s, 72 in oakland, 65 in San Francisco where it will remain cool and partly cloudy. Half moon bay has low 60s in the forecast with temperatures cooling slightly into the holiday, a look at those numbers and your extended forecast is coming up. Thousands of people spent some of the Holiday Weekend at demonstrations calling for the impeachment of President Trump. I think people are mad and fed up with what he is doing, and they are not happy. Hundreds gathered at the Justin Herman plaza, calling on congress to remove donald trump from the white house, many saying the president is making america look bad to the rest of the world. He is certainly not president ial integrating to the office
And a half, we will go live to the u. S. Institute of peace here in washington for a discussion on combating isis and protecting minority groups in iraq. We will hear from the Regional Government representative to the u. S. , member of iraqs parliament, the ambassador to the u. S. And a state department official. That gets underway at 1 30 p. M. Eastern live on cspan. After that, President Trump in the east room of the white house meeting with Small Business owners set to start at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and you will watch it live here on cspan. Also today at the white house, President Trump has been on twitter and just before 10 00 a. M. Eastern the president tweeted old only the fake media and enemies want me to stop using social media. Only way for me to get the truth out. Posted aaker paul ryan video with the message retweet if you degree it is time for the wall. I have the opportunity to travel down to texas to go to the Rio Grande Valley and spend time with our border patrol. When you
And a half, we will go live to the u. S. Institute of peace here in washington for a discussion on combating isis and protecting minority groups in iraq. We will hear from the Regional Government representative to the u. S. , member of iraqs parliament, the ambassador to the u. S. And a state department official. That gets underway at 1 30 p. M. Eastern live on cspan. After that, President Trump in the east room of the white house meeting with Small Business owners set to start at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and you will watch it live here on cspan. Also today at the white house, President Trump has been on twitter and just before 10 00 a. M. Eastern the president tweeted old only the fake media and enemies want me to stop using social media. Only way for me to get the truth out. Posted aaker paul ryan video with the message retweet if you degree it is time for the wall. I have the opportunity to travel down to texas to go to the Rio Grande Valley and spend time with our border patrol. When you