Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. The lemelson foundation. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the fur kept flying today, in the raucous republican president ial race. Donald trump and his rivals were back on the road hours after their debate in detroit. So how many of yall watched the debate last night . We had some fireworks on stage. Im not here to attack anyone. We did plenty of that last night, i suppose. When im
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. The lemelson foundation. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the fur kept flying today, in the raucous republican president ial race. Donald trump and his rivals were back on the road hours after their debate in detroit. So how many of yall watched the debate last night . We had some fireworks on stage. Im not here to attack anyone. We did plenty of that last night, i suppose. When im
be nearly fatal. bloomberg reports on the story of pam renshaw who suffered second and third degree burns over half her body because of a car crash because her local hospital closed due to funding cuts, had to travel two hours to be flown to a hospital and receive emergency care. hers is not the only story of human suffering as a result of ideological purity. as plane as 15 hospitals in georgia will be shut in months. in tennessee nearly half of the state s hospitals may face major cuts or closure if the state decides to stand firm in its resistance to medicaid expansion and place the burden instead on the poores and sickest among us. president and ceo of essential hospitals dr. bruce siegel. doctor, thank you for joining us. this is a hugely underdiscussed element of aca, what s happening to hospitals. hospitals are forced to care for people and give them emergency
0 signed up on the aca website and have actual health insurance the zeal for repeal will be greatly diminished because it will be taking away health care from people who now have it. you would think that, but that would make you living in a reality-based reality, and that s not look, here is the thing. the republicans had a gift for the last month or so, because they could take first of all, they were in the political dumpster after the shutdown. they were also in the doldrums, they had no other thing to offer. repeal and then what. all these things in the affordable care act people liked, kids staying on their parents plans loeg longer, getting rid of bars for pre-existing conditions, they only make sense if you have an individual mandate. republicans know that s why they invented the individual mandate. now all of a sudden they have this gift. they can attack the website and impugn the whole policy because the website didn t work. suddenly they can t do that no more. they are g