Over medicaid and the Hawki Program which insures kids. Letters like this went out to families asking them to make their decision by february 17th about which company they want to use. But theres a major hiccup for people who have to make this choice. Theyre health care providers. Whether thats a doctor, pharmacist, a clinic, pediatrician or case manager, might not be signed u u with one of these companieie cording to the department of human services, only 60 of providers in the state have signed contracts with all three of the private companies. About 70 have signed with two, and 90 have signed with just one of the companies. Thats a major concern of cms, the federal group that has to give its approval for this transition. Their worry that iowas network of providers isnt robust enough. Its one of 16 items they gave the state to improve on before they felt they could give iowa permission to move ahead to managed care. Iowas medicaid director says change. The states ready. The state was
Last weekend in february. Thanks. Shooting suspect showed before police say he went on a rampage saturday night. Night. Dalton was arrested and is now accused of a series of random shootings that killed six people and injured two others. Police believe in between the several shootings, dalton continued driving some passengers around. Kalamazoo residentatt mellen says dalton was acting strange, acting strange, running stop signs and driving around 80 miles an hour. We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along and when we came to a stop, i jumped out the car and raaway. Away. Police say dalton did not have a criminal history and they dont believe these attacks are related to terrorism. He is sitting in jail right now and is set t be arraigned later today. Since dalton didnt have a criminal history he passed the companys background check. Check. Ubers chief Security Officer joe sullivan heartbken at the senseless violence in kalamazoo. We have reached out to t
Amy walter, Cook Political Report and jon ralston, deen of the Nevada Political Press Corps and nbc analyst. Chuck, rubio, cruz and sanders, welcome to sunday in a postprimary and caucus edition of meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meett the press with chuck todd. Good morning. Im wishing every saturday had primaries because welcome to an amazing sunday where everything morning. Very simply two headlines out of shakakup saturday thanks to South Carolina kp nevada. We now have the reeway republican race so many expected and we now have a democratic frontrunner again, anan her name is Hillary Clinton, again. But lets start with the republicans. Donald trump made it clear that he is now the republican frontrunner. Trump scored a big win in South Carolina winning 33 of the vote. And all 50 delegates at stake. The battle for second, a distant second frankly, was a back and forth affair all night with by just one percentage point, 2322. Bush, kasich, carson they all finish
Ron youre not in kansas anymore. Matt thats exactly right. And have been the executive director of Progress Iowa since it started in spring of 2012, and what we do is we work to advocate for progressive issues all across the board, whether thats in the state legislature, whether thats in congress, but really our focus is on pushing for Progressive Solutions to Public Policy problems and getting iowans involved in the process. So a lot of what we deuce taking is helping people take action, signing online petitions which then send an email or contact their local elected official or in this case, this week, their federal elected official. We really want to get people involved and engaged in the process. Ron now, one article described Progress Iowa that i read as being powered by a community of more than 30,000 progressives, focused on research, education, and advocacy and i think that article came out of an appearance that you made just the bright bart News Sunday Program on xm 25 right b
Announcer this is the steele report. Ron this week on the steele report, our topic as we talk with the executive director of the leftleaning Progress Iowa questioning begins right now. Captioning provided by caption associates, llc www. Captionassociates. Com announcer now from kwwl, this is the steele report. Ron and welcome to this weeks edition of the steele report. Very interesting topic today. Eye like on id like to introduce my guest right now, matt sinovic, hes the executive director of Progress Iowa and also the organization known as why courts matter. The Iowa Coalition, they go together. Matt is going to explain that. They caused a little bit of controversy this week when they attended some of senator Charles Grassleys town Hall Meetings talking about the judicial process and thats what were going to talk about extensively here on the program today. First of all, before we go any further, matt, i want to get some background on now and kind of understand, get a perspective abo