Largest health care player in the american system. A huge and growing federal entitlement. A little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment, from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees. Total Program Spending will double. Today, roughly, one trillion dollars. Within ten years, it will be nearly two trillion dollars. At the same time, medicare is rapidly changing. Today roughly half of all Senior Citizens are enrolled in Medicare Advantage. A system of private coverage, which is the leading alternative to traditional medicare, and Medicare Advantage, a defined contribution system. What that means is what that means is the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary, plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare coverage. The question before the house, and before the main nation, is a very big one. That is how do we provide high quality medical care to a huge and rapidly growing older population. At a cost th
With these Television Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen for coming. Our topic todays medicare. The Largest Health care player in the american system. A huge and growing federal entitlement. A little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment, from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees. Total Program Spending will double. Today, roughly, one trillion dollars. Within ten years, it will be nearly two trillion dollars. At the same time, medicare is rapidly changing. Today roughly half of all Senior Citizens are enrolled in Medicare Advantage. A system of private coverage, which is the leading alternative to traditional medicare, and Medicare Advantage, a defined contribution system. What that means is what that means is the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary, plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare coverage. The question before the house, and b
That if the next congress does not want to provide aid, direct aid, budgetary aid to ukraine, then there is a lendlis and we can to use, and all this time the states regularly allocate direct nonrefundable funds for our defense, since the beginning of the great war they have provided more than 60 billion dollars, 43 of them specifically for weapons, and this is a much better way than lendlease, experts insist, because it is not known what the conditions are. Would be spelled out in additional agreements, and the lendlease actually provides for the return of weapons and equipment after the end of the war. Landlis does not open up the possibility for us, relatively speaking, to provide any weapon that we would like, there would also be a story political decisions, and the white house would decide whether or not to provide us, the atakamsa or f16 or some other types of weapons, as part of the lendlease . Legally the document is not valid now, but is the window of opportunity closed . Ukra
I dont see the possibility that there would be any other option from our side, and thats fine, me thank you very much to our friends, the poles, the polish authorities, for how at the beginning of the war they started to help us ukrainians, how during the war, how you continue to help us now, and please tell me, but inside poland itself, this is an interesting situation, for example , once again, if the opposition led by donald tusk comes to power, the president of andrzej duda still remains from the ruling party of law and justice. Please tell me to what extent it is possible within the polish political community, well, i am i will not talk about the split, but about any possible problems, what could there be . Well, of course, the opposition will probably have, of course there will be a certain problem here, yes, because eh , if the president is from a different political force, which is the case in this case, then eh, you have to keep in mind that pewni reci, pewne , pewne, the laws
Deadliest in israels history. A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense forces, or the idf, confirmed that 700 israelis have been killed. And the Palestinian Health ministry reported that 413 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip. The israeli and the Palestinian Death tolls are expected to rise it have been injured. There are more reports that a number of idf, members and many civilians have been taken hostage, including children. This morning, on nbcs meet the press, u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken said, the State Department is working to confirm whether americans are among them, and how many. Mister secretary, does the administration know, at this moment, if u. S. Citizens were among the dead, or those taken hostage . So, we have reports that several americans may be among the dead. We are very actively working to verify those reports. Similarly, we have seen reports about hostages, and they are again, we are very actively trying to verify them, and nail that down. Mea