A delayed tax bill gop leadership in the white house putting off an announcement on tax reform as wrangling over how to pay for it continues. And tech is back on capitol hill for their role in the 2016 election and russias role we want to bring you up to speed on yesterdays deadly terror attack. Contessa brewer is in Lower Manhattan for us reporter good morning. Investigators are looking to see whether the suspected attacker had scouted this area in particular ahead of time or was he familiar with it because he was an uber driver Sayfullo Saipov left a note inside that rented home depot truck proclaiming isis lives forever in arabic. It was a home depot truck that he rented in new jersey. Investigators found at least one knife in the truck Law Enforcement believe saipov acted alone mowing down cyclists and pedestrians for 20 blocks. Its a very popular park path. And it ended, this attack, with a crash into a school bus very close to the World Trade Center near an elite Public High Scho
Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to care and quality of care. Very serious issues, and then finally let me cite the i like to thong the as the Public Trustees in exile. Former trustees who wrote a paper before they saw the report yesterday but made a very important point, which is that delaying action on medicare fiscal challenges, until a crisis is imminent, which too often has been congress approach, would not only have adverse impacts on beneficiaries but would severely restrict the remedies available to address the problem. Wait
Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to care and quality of care. Very serious issues, and then finally let me cite the i like to thong the as the Public Trustees in exile. Former trustees who wrote a paper before they saw the report yesterday but made a very important point, which is that delaying action on medicare fiscal challenges, until a crisis is imminent, which too often has been congress approach, would not only have adverse impacts on beneficiaries but would severely restrict the remedies available to address the problem. Wait
Productivity, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act or the aca, has a provision in it that the Current Administration is not taking any actions to remove, which sets payment reductions dooring to the growth and general productivity and payment reductions to Healthcare Providers, and as the trustees say, Healthcare Providers will have to realize productivity improvements as a fasterraise than experienced historically for this policy to avoid leading to serious erosion in the access to care and quality of care. Very serious issues, and then finally let me cite the i like to thong the as the Public Trustees in exile. Former trustees who wrote a paper before they saw the report yesterday but made a very important point, which is that delaying action on medicare fiscal challenges, until a crisis is imminent, which too often has been congress approach, would not only have adverse impacts on beneficiaries but would severely restrict the remedies available to address the problem. Wait
Medicares longterm fiscal conditions. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Everyone. Rning everyone here and everyone on cspan to the American Enterprise institute. Were having a discussion today about the Medicare Trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the Medicare Program but also the longterm outlook. My name is joe antos. And i will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. The perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook, as they said in their summary. A major concern has to do with the growth of health care innovation, which has its positives and negatives. The positives, of course, is with modern technology and modern techniques were able to cure or address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we could have in the past, but as the trustees say, while most health