House. Please help those who labor here to recognize how you are present in their service and leadership. Guide them as they seek to be effective for the good of all your people. Loving god, may our leaders be alert to the cares and hurts and challenges of our citizens and our communities. Help these leaders choose well, directions and actions that benefit those likely to be left out and all who express and strengthen our nations values which are our greatest assets. May we hear and pursue your sacred message, merciful god, that we be women and men with the capacity of peacemakers, realistic and also deeply thoughtful and wise. Finally, gentle god, bring to those who serve here a participation in your own gifts, such as rich insight and also joy in their care for the wellbeing of our country and the world. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands a
Additional support is provided by from the tisch wnet studios in new york, ari sreenivasan. The house of representatives voted 407 to nothing to grarnt back pay to 800,000 federal employees now furloughed. The senate also is expected to approve the legislation. In a separate development, chuck hagel said the pentagon is ordering most of its furloughed civilian employees back to work, he did not say exactly how many. Meanwhile, there are new signs the Government Shutdown is damaging the economy, thousands of home buyers may not be able to qualify for mortgages because of the furloughing of irs workers. The irs often verifies the income of home buyers trying to get a lone. For weeks now, washington watchers have been saying resolution of the conflict will hinge on the actions of two men, president obama and House Speaker john boehner. Well have two conversations with the reporters who cover each of them. For more, were joined by janet hook of the wall street journal, i have to ask, does
Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to solve. These plans were almost always preceded by funding cuts, system i can safety and reliability problems caused a great deal of upheaval in the transportation and forced countries to renational lies a system. With that being said, we think that amtraks longterm next general plan for the northeast corridor provides a temp plate for a Public Private partnership that is worth discussing. If the par
Instead of seeing you went to the emergency room. This is not a typical example in this room, but i personally can think of many times when i wanted to see my primary care physician and there was inadequate and available for weeks. Your only option is the emergency room. What would it run in your case . Did she make the case, the system set up wrong case for her . We were available. Broken seven days a week. The weekend of christmas was my weekend to work. We saw 95 patients that weekend. Work seven days a week. We have access to imaging and most of her primary care product is and specialists have that now is a service giving up from studies that decreases the cost of care bulleted to those of extended hours by about 10 . But it really has to be incentivized for what were doing in terms of creating a tepid economic model that is about access that works. In this situation, the patient just wasnt used to it. She caught a friend of hers and said what do you do . In the same thing may have
A users guide to health care last week and cover the secret committee of doctors pay in america put out by the American Medical Association and is up the signs codes for every imaginable procedure imaginable purview have seen them and they set the price you and your Insurance Company have to pay but unlike every other part this code has not kept up with the times and that means it allows them to putted for a 50 hour day that stretches the imagination and here is the best part the federal government and i read the prices the services pay are up to 50 . You say this may be part of the reason . It is a total racket. The ama conducts surveys and they never err on the side to say it is too little but it is so challenging we have to be reimbursed more. Gerri when we talked about this last week that makes no sense of all. Give us the example. With the intensity of the work required and the time that it takes is the overhead costs so basically that is the incentive for higher reimbursement for