Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is are eligible but not enrolled in va have less than 50 disability rating. The threshold to where its va care comes without a copay. These are individuals who have already made a determination that the coverage theyre under is the best coverage they could have. If not, they would be enrolled in the va today. So, the fact that cbo now says with just the execution of this minor reform legislation it w
Next a british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from the members of the house of commons and outgoing president the congressional gold medal and another chance to with a tomorrow on washington journal, the author of 100 victories, special ops in the future of american warfare, discusses u. S. Military options in iraq. John gable examines the impact of the Health Care Law so far on insurance plans, including pricing. Texas congressman henry dont bonilla talks about the attempts to break gridlock in washington. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live on cspan. During this weeks question time, british Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the hiring of former news of the world editor andy colson as his inmunications your back 2010. Mr. Colson was charged with intercepting voice mails, also known as phone hacking. The Prime Minister apologized to members for hiring him, saying it was the wrong decision. Opposition l
For free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q a. Org. Programs are also available as cspan podcasts. Up next, british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. Outgoing israeli president shimon peres is awarded the congressional gold medal. Then the Supreme Court oral argument on the constitutionality of warrantless cell phone searches. Book tv set down with Hillary Clinton in little rock to discuss her newest book hard choices. Ive learned before, but certainly a secretary of state, to expect the unexpected. Nobody expected the socalled arab spring until it was upon us. We have to learn to be agile and whilefor the unexpected we try to build the world we want, especially for our children, and now for my future grandchild, but weve got to be aware of the fact that all of these other countries, all of these billions of people, they are making hard choices of recycled a. We have to be ready for that. That welut
privilege, hasn t it? it has been, and we would just like to say, keep dancing and thank you very much. thank you. thank you! that was sophie van brugen reporting. and the strictly come dancing final is on bbc one tomorrow evening at 7pm. but it will be without aj 0dudu and kai widdrington, who are having to withdraw after aj sustained an injury. now to the high street, and there were better than expected retail sales in november, as people started their festive shopping early. but what effect is 0micron having on retail in the run up to christmas day? our business correspondent emma simpson reports from northamptonshire. rushton lakes, a retail park that has no problems bringing shoppers in. this chain is doing a roaring trade. ~ ., , ., , trade. we have been double digit urowth all trade. we have been double digit growth all year-