The president s nominee for the next administrator for centers for medicare and Medicaid Services said all options should be considered to improve Program Quality and financial stability. Seema verma testified in a three our confirmation hearing yesterday. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come order. I would like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of seema verma to Service Administrator of the centers for medicaid, medicare and Medicaid Services. We are so happy to have you here and your family too. Appreciate your willingness to meet at the agency on this article time. I see your family has joined you today to lend support so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest Health Insurer covering over one third of the Us Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and processes over 1. 2 billion a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulner
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
Please wait outside if you care to speak submit a speaker card to make sure youre aware your name has been called for a particular item okay. As soon as an overflow room is made available ill let you all know where that is id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards thank you, commissioners commissioners, the first item on your agenda is item for continuance item one the go affordable unit general plan amendment and two Affordable Housing bonus planning Code Amendment and next Affordable Housing and public Zoning District are proposed for that continuance until december 3rd, 2015, item 4 at 1126 irving street has been withdrawn i have a number of speakers commissioners. Okay. Opening it up for Public Comment for continuances Katherine Howard calling names and if you all want to line up on that side of the room pent. For those members of the publ
How it could affect the entire American Auto industry. And the terrible violence in ukraine just keeps getting worse. Just 18 months ago, they hosted an International Soccer tournament and now are on the brink of, if not in, a civil war. Markets are starting to react to this. Russian stocks down big today. Sue is out. Kate kelly is at the new york stock exchange. We will check in with her in just a minute. We start, though, with frozenomics. Take a look at this chart of gas, up another percent today, a percent in the last month. One big reason of course is because new weather models, this big move today, 40 in one month, new weather models came in overnight. Wsi senior meteorologist dan leonard telling us today to expect cold now throughout much of the nation into quote, the first week of march and beyond. Originally, leonards model said the cold would back off by the second week of march, but now that part of the forecast has changed. Jeff grossman trades nat gas for brg brokerage. Wh
And back sabbath following the opec plus decision to slash or output. The way id say is washington is fully responsible for its own energy crisis. With very, were welcome to you. Youre watching the weekly here on our see international bringing you the latest world news updates along with the stories the shapes, the week. We start with the crimea bridge, which has now reopened after a bombing. They claim the lives of 3 people and damaged one of the highway sections. Vehicles are now crossing in both directions with the Railway Lines also open for cargo on the passenger trades. These picture shows some of the 1st traffic that is allowed to move across following the incidence. Civilian cars are accompanied by Police Officer being thoroughly inspected before entering the bridge. The collapse section of the highway remains closed. Official say all the other parts of the bridge are safe to use. And hayes the Surveillance Footage off saturdays blast the russian anti terror committee. Phase 3