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
Tonight on q and then. A. Following last weekends National Governors Association Winter meeting here in washington, republican governors met with President Trump at the white house on monday. After that meeting some of the governors spoke with the news media about the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. This is 25 minutes. Just let us know when you a number of us governors joined with a number of our colleagues. We should acknowledge you always hear. Rick snyder from michigan, doug ducey from arizona, Asia Hutchinson from arkansas, met devon from kentucky, mary fairman from oklahoma, bill haslam from tennessee. We will be joining a number of our colleagues as well at the capital to join a number of governors from both parties who will be meeting with congressional leaders as well to finish off the day. They wanted to comment on the meeting. Specifically on obamacare. I should just say in a minute youll hear from a couple of other governors that we really appreciate th
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
Hall meeting concerning the future of their health care. Congressman Jared Huffman vowing to stop the repeal of obamacare. Right now my job is to fight. And thats what were going to do. Dont repeal the Affordable Care act, improve it. Reporter 9yearold rhett crowett said the Affordable Care act helped his family pay for chemotherapy treatments after battling leukemia for years. Thanks to my doctors and nurses, my family and friends, my church and my community and the Affordable Care act, now im gone with the cancer. Aca all the way. Reporter many worry the House Republican plan to replace aca would flood hospital Emergency Rooms with patients. We all know its not perfect, but its improved care and access for so many individuals. Reporter donna fife says the Affordable Care act has got to go. The Affordable Care act is definitely in a death spiral and its very to think the country can go on like this, people need to take their own responsibility for their health care. By 2026, 24 millio
How about the commute this morning . Couple issues working right now. No new details but this crash, westbound 80 before you get to Central Avenue, three vehicles involved, blocking the left center lane and youre backing up into the East Richmond area so a little under two miles but if thats blocking for long, thats a bad spot. Southbound 680, we had reports into chp, someone saw smoke coming from the bottom of their vehicle and smelled smoke so pulled over to the shoulder. Possibly have a vehicle fire in the area. Well take a look at drive times coming up. On to developing news, now, a Homicide Investigation underway in the east bay. A san leandro neighborhood is blocked off right now and abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there live. Reporter the Sheriffs Department is still dedicating resources to this. And its in its 16th hour of an investigation. Look behind me. They have a sheriffs deputy here protecting the scene until investigators get back out here to finish looking for evid