Meaningful action. He was notified by Homeland Security advisor john brennan. He ordered flags lowered to half staff. This is about 5 minutes. I spoke with governor malloy and fbi director muller. I offered governor malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate this crime, care for theirctimw and families. We have endured too many of these tragedies. Each time i learned the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. That was true today. There is not a parent in america who does not feel the same grief i fail. Do. The majority of folks who died today were children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives head of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers, who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams. Our hearts are broken today. For the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of t
These organizations move to pay people for quality instead of quantity. The Obama Administration will give a hospital a set amount of money for caring for the patients. Then the doctor has to strategize so they dont have to go into the red. They are hoping the model will drive down costs and get rid of the incentive or just that were at the start of that program. Host brian from massachusetts with sarah kliff. Caller a caller talked about marriage practitioners and there is a lot of them. They pretty much have a lot of schools are graduating many Nurse Practitioners and physicians assistants. There is a cap on the amount of doctors they can create. Nurse practitioners have two years of crammed education. I think they are good providers. We cannot assume that a Nurse Practitioner or physicians assistant are going to be as good as medical doctors. Guest that is a criticism that a lot of people raise. Are these people going to be as good as doctors . In certain spaces, they provide justic
Across the nation more than 82 billion in direct spending in one year. The highest burden is in the south where it cost about 35 billion in one year. Are you concerned not expanding medicaid would exacerbate the disparities and leave more people as the sickest in our nation and increase the financial costs in the end . They are going to come to you at some point without having Preventive Care or Health Care Maintenance when they are very sick and cost the state more. Thank you very much to focus the attention on what all of the coverage is supposed to address, which is people oppose the Health Status and outcomes. In my state and states nearby, was a great disparity in diabetes and obesity. We have looked at the outcomes on medicaid and we do not see a great bit of difference. We have a system not turning out the kind of Health Outcomes we would expect for the amount of money we put a in. We have looked at expanding medicaid. Let me show you some numbers around it. Chairman waxman went
If you read the governments brief in the Fourth Circuit appeal, its what they say theres no such thing as a reporters privilege. So they turned this case into a showdown over the First Amendment and freedom of the press in the united states. I am happy to carry on that fight, but it wasnt me who really started it. [laughter] this has been a long case i got subpoenaed in 2008 first, but what i can say now is with all of these people showing their support, im willing to keep fighting because now i know i have just an enormous group of people supporting me. One of the things i would like to say is the real reason i am doing this is for the future of journalism. My oldest son, tom, standing right there, is a journalist. I want to make sure the same protections i have had in my career are there for the future reporters in america. There is no way we could do our jobs if we dont have the ability to have aggressive investigative reporting in america and have the ability to maintain confidenti
We are seeing this play out now. The politicians have made some choices reticulated republicans supporting the iraq war and the democrats. They made cheap commitments and now they have thousands of kids with their legs blown off. Or their mind screwed up by war. We have to take care of them. We have to leave it there thank you. More Live Programming coming our way. Later today, a discussion on how the media covers asianamerican issues. The focus on the asian journalist association. It is live on cspan 3. We are at a bullying prevention summit hosted by federal partners in bullying prevention. And a look at the primetime programming tonight. At 8 eastern it is our American History tour. We travelled looking for civil war stories. And booktv tonight. Books on hilary clinton, obama, and the snowden links. And American History tv. Sports and history is the theme. Here are some of the highlights for this weekend. A history tour looking at the civil war. This weekend the communicators visits