Declared a saint. Good morning. This is alJazeera America, and im morgan radford. 17 hours, thats how much Time Congress has to avoid a Government Shutdown. The gop has tied the bill to a one year delay of the Affordable Care act, also known as obamacare. The democratic controlled senate is promising to scrap that provision. The American People overwhelmingly reject obamacare. The only people not listening to the argument are the career politicians in washington. Theres a time and place to debate obamacare but not at a time when millions of innocent people are held hostage if we dont fund the government. Some have come out against the gop strategy and senator Susan Collins of maine is the latest. The bill was sent to the senate this morning and they are expected to send a simple spending measure back to the house, then putting the legislative hot potato back in the lap of john boehner. Lib ewe is live in washington, d. C. Theres been no progress at all between the parties, is there any
As for the institutional analysts that follow our business, i really kind of conflicted about the impact of this law in the Health Care System. For example, my friend gary taylor at citigroup believes the trend for will be earnings for the publicly traded care system, hospital systems, the physician group, et cetera because of a large number of folks that are present we not going to be able to afford their care. And in the cases of some of these institutions, like tenet healthcare, for example, 30 million a year income gain as a result of the Affordable Care act, im not so sure. I think the combination of the deductible since, the fact that there is a very significant break for that, 12 to 15 Million People that will have exchange coverage, the fact theyre going to be facing anywhere from 2500 5000 or perhaps even more in front and cost before they get a dimes worth of benefit i think is going to dampen demand. Its a very small number that spend enough to get to the point where theyre
Drying out. I wonder, are you familiar with the work of james okeefe, the more entrepreneurial, lesser known young journalists . The question i get a lot, to say that he is the only investigative journalist in america is a disservice. All sorts of names being tossed around as i said, i am optimistic about journalism, optimistic that there will continue to be new ways of people as indignant and is angry as seymour hersh. Whether anyone can persist for as many years and have as many scoops in stories says seymour hersh, that i am doubtful of, certainly not that there will be tremendous investigative journalists. It is also a new world. The internet has given us all sorts of new possibilities. What is we is snowden releases his material. He would have leaked that material to a journalist. The nature of traditional journalism has been turned upsidedown. [inaudible question] maybe i am misremembering. Them the least talented he predicts that the u. S. Would be invading iran and make a reall
In our net assets of 21 million but there are a lot of things that could occur between now and the end of june that could affect that. The 21 million includes 13 1 2 million in assets and this as we mentioned before they are reserves and an analysis of stables reserves and contingency reserves that will be done and incorporated into next year. 2. 8 million in favorable claims experiences in blue shields and nor the reported. 2. 4 million in the shared dental plan and a reduction of 1 million estimated medical hmo premium revenues avenue application of the early retirement reassurance program. This is the federal money being used. One of the things that happens is a reduction in the estimated hmo insurance premiums. 700,000 increase to account for the time between the fsa contribution and filing of claims. 800,000 for interest assuming that we have no significant increases in those yearend value including investments. 200,000 reduction for transfers to the general fund. So what does thi
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th