Bay area slammed by powerful spring storm brought thunder and lightning. Some strike destroy tree and damaged homes. Heavy rain cause flooding and even left snow on local mountain top. Next band manufacturing in right now. Heres leif look from the exploratorium camera in San Francisco. Cloud hang over the city with more on the way. Good evening im dan ashley. Carolyn is off tonight. Here des again. More desperately needed rain. 7 news meteorologist sandhya is tracking the storm. Here now with live doppler 7hd. Second part of the storm is inching closer to the bay area why live doppler 7hd is now starting to see some showers developing in the north bay. I a little bit closer a little bir here. We have seen not just showers but right around the lake county area you see some of the pink and purple. Thats mixed precipitation so we have seen some mixed precipitation show up on our rad as i as i take you in closer we is he very lit rain around santa rosa highway 101. Golf course drive here h
Television for serious readers. Coming up next hearing on the Health Care Law and federal subsidies for insurance providers. This is an hourandahalf. The chair will recognize an opening statement. Todays hearing is once again about protecting taxpayers and consumers from the consequences of the Affordable Care act, mainly the giveaway of taxpayer dollars to ensures. First, section 1342 of the Affordable Care act created what are known as risc corridors, a mechanism that will protect Insurance Companies from some of the financial losses. It works by decreasing payments to plans whose expenses are below projections, those with healthier than expected and release and redistributing those dollars to plants whose expenses exceed projections, those with sicker than expected enrollees. If done in a budget neutral fashion taxpayers would have little to be worried about when it comes to risk. But while the administration has paid lip service to the program being budget neutral it has also indic
Expense. If they live far from a va hospital, 40 miles is the agreedupon distance, you will secretary the. A. Ability to fire senior managers accused of mismanagement. They can obviously fire those who are ill performing. Timekes a very long because of federal rules about letting employees go and their process to appeal. This was one of the reasons the controversy started in the first place. V. A. More to come on this deal in the house and senate. Did address the immediate crisis of veterans being forced on the long waiting lines for health care. It strengthens the va so that we can put a permanent end to long waiting lists. It addresses the very serious problem of accountability and makes certain that this honest and incompetent senior officials at the va do not remain employed there and in addition and provide some other significant benefit for veterans and their families. Funding for veterans needs must be considered a cost of law, and appropriated as charges that they. Planes and t
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single
A sustainable ceasefire. One that addresses all of the concerns, the longterm concerns as well, begin to talk about the underlying causes of the conflict in gaza, although they will not be resolved in the context of a ceasefire discussion. To try to build, to begin and move in a process and that is what we are trying to achieve. That thehe only way conflict is going to be resolved. If we can make some progress, the people in this region, who deserve peace, can take one step towards that elusive goal by stopping the violence which catches innocents on all sides in the crossfire and begin to try to build a Sustainable Way forward. Any process to asolve the crisis in gaza in lasting and meaningful way must lead to the disarmament of hamas and all terrorist groups. We will work closely with israel and regional partners and the International Community in support of this goal. We continue to have these discussions. In discussions succeeded putting a 12 hour humanitarian ceasefire in place. F