Good morning everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished oversight investigation room. This is the first one of 115th congress. Welcome here and welcome our Witnesses Today. Welcome back to my friend and colleague. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the program. The Sub Committee convenes to examine patient and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. It provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of health dacare spending in th United States. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise from 371 billion in 2016 to 624 billion in 2026, ten years. At a time when Medicaid Program costs are skyrocketing it makes sense to ask is it adequately serving our most vulnerable populations . 20 and 40 cents of value for each the government spends on their behalf. Further, reports by nonpartisan watchdogs, two of which are here today show that the Program Remains a target for waste, fraud and abuse. B
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished oversight investigation room. This is the first one of 115th congress. Welcome here and welcome our Witnesses Today. Welcome back to my friend and colleague. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the program. The Sub Committee convenes to examine patient and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. It provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of health dacare spending in th United States. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise from 371 billion in 2016 to 624 billion in 2026, ten years. At a time when Medicaid Program costs are skyrocketing it makes sense to ask is it adequately serving our most vulnerable populations . 20 and 40 cents of value for each the government spends on their behalf. Further, reports by nonpartisan watchdogs, two of which are here today show that the Program Remains a target for waste, fraud and abuse. B
I know you did not want to be very political, but do you put out anything at all . Because when i look at things that the government does, i draw a different conclusion than what my friend mr. Sherman draws. I see regulations that say the has regulation hayes regulation being implement it in the west, you cannot see the difference in the air. You have to have a computer to measure it. Using that regulation, coal miners being sent to the house in new mexico make 60,000 a year and they are going to be on subsistence level Government Support checks. That is an actual regulation that is penalizing the job market. I see those penalties, but do you all put out any kind of a fact sheet that says, look, you increase minimum wage, burger king is going to go and put kiosks in. The poor people are never going to get into the labor market. The gap between the rich and the poor is going to increase because we have outsourced and sent those jobs out of america on the low end of the scale that allow
Reporter what we have our thing started not much in the way a fall of the clause we have coastal clouds perhaps but for the most part it will be a sunny day from beginning toward the end that is what you can expect to look at the to the choose we do have some for as of the border we will see these numbers start to really popped today but more important tomorrow. Reporter not much of the whale light cloud oakland here is the breakdown even there the car temperatures soar to 78 we will are we see 80s today a little bit of a southwest when not real apparent notice how quick the temperatures climb and then dropped by 3 00 mostly sunny hot inland as the time the judge will be well in the business of the 90s some areas maypop until the middle to perhaps even the upper 90s and it reaches to the far east and. Robin winston fairly quiet this morning on westbound 80 approaching the toll plaza if you need to did in is looking pretty good no major problems coming out of oakland into downtown San F
Kind of drive time doit yourself enough time. I would leave about 2025 minutes early earlier than usual. Theres more slow traffic the topic act. All. Have more all day if dave today all the hot. We have a High Pressure zone going deaf flow pattern giving in the right location. It will inch up a bit and give us a better wording happening tomorrow. It is sunny from beginning to end. Were in the upper 60s territories are now. Lady in for the members to come up at any season different. Numbers coming different 544 napa. A breakdown for coastal clouds temperatures will be approaching 70s and in spots and. The bay even by noon will be up to 79. 85 for the inland areas and by 3 00 the areas will be in the 90s. The bay shoreline will be about the 90s. Of more details of the forecasts coming. its over cleveland is a city at champions once again. The cavaliers are nba champions. Mark there is a shocker of the bay area with a disappointing end of the historic season for the warriors. The warriors