Imagine from the title of its organization and this includes more than 3000 Public Schools and agencies and state employers covering more than a million and a half and david is here to tell us about the calpers reference pricing and its impact on health care and the cost as andrea has said that he might been promised that he might. We thank you for coming. Thank you, ed. Okay. Im going to talk about this program for hip replacement and it provides Health Benefits for 1. 1 million members statewide and that includes active and retired state employees including school districts. About a third of those end up in the preferred provider organizations with Anthem Blue Cross of california and we spent about 7. 75 billion and the impetus for referencebased pricing was also a variety of studies in this includes for Knee Replacements and we looked at cost drivers and it turned out that the osteoarthritis is one of the drivers in about a third of those costs come from hip or Knee Replacements. In
And butter. Were talking about her and oeismt ceo blunders. Tyler is out and simon is back with me. Hi. Good afternoon. We start with something on this show 24 hours ago it was a big headsup on a stock that could have been about to make a very big move. A biostock that many analysts will quickly double, vertex pharmaceutical reporting data. And move it did. Vertex shares up big on news that the drug combo is an effective fighter on cystic fibrosis. Its up, up and away today. Our own meg tirrell fresh from doing a lap of honor around the headquarters joins us with more. They met and exceeded the streets expect aations this co bock improved function. We took a look at how they work. Cystic fibrosis is caused by mutations to a gene known as cftr. When the gene is defective, the protein it creates cant help fluoride escape the cell. That hampers the movement of fluid across the cell wall and leads to product of thick mucus. The first medicine cass kaledyco. Which allows chloride to pass th
Sometimes a thousand dollars a month. I mean, you know, its a wide range. Some people will get subsidies and support and pay less. But theres this group in the middle who make just enough, they get no subsidy, and the price of their premiums for their plans is going up dramatically. But moreover, and this is just what after 36 meetings in my own district their deductibles, their deductibles, they fear, are at a level where unless you have a Catastrophic Health event in your family, you really dont have Health Insurance because youre paying upwards of 12, 15,000 where it was 2 or 3,000. And so they may go without, because you have a guarantee issue. So you can always go to the emergency room, right . The penalties are not more than the premiums. I think this is the chaos im talking about out there on the ground in communities all across america. A quick follow up . Sure, of course. Has there been time to actually figure out as this legislation has been going on which is the worst case .
How essential is arizona to the president s path to the white house, jeremy . Reporter its an extremely important state for the president. This is a state the president won by four points in 2016. In fact the democratic president ial candidate hasnt won this state since bill clinton in 1996. The cnn polling average shows that joe biden is ahead by about four points here in the state of arizona. Thats about the same amount that President Trump was ahead by in the polls before the 2016 election here in this state. So what youre going to see from the president , hes going to stop where we are in bullhead city. This is a ruby red county where the president will be focused on driving up turnout among his base. You already have thousands who are here, most of them from arizona, some as well from neighboring nevada, because we are on the arizona nevada border, and hes going to head to Maricopa County to a suburb of phoenix. Youll perhaps hearing a different message or the same message, but he
In fracking or unfortunately coal in ohio. Its a different place for me a decade ago. This president has done nothing. He cares nothing about climate change, he ignores it, doesnt buy the science and then done nothing about the jobs in energy in eastern ohio. So things are worse than they were. No help to this president. Weve obviously got to be more serious about climate issues. Senator brown, im sorry about the technical difficulties we had more to talk about, but well have you back. Thanks for the time. Thanks, poppy. Appreciate it. You got it. Byebye. Very good friday morning to you, im jim sciutto. Im poppy harlow. So its only four days before this election and the nation is fighting a virus that is surging this morning almost everywhere in the country. Both President Trump and joe biden are racing across the midwest in a last ditch effort to win votes, campaigning in states hit so hard by the virus. Here are the numbers. The u. S. Will likely surpass 9 million confirmed covid cas