Noem held a town hall taking questions on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state is one of few without a stay at home order. 518 meatpacking plant workers tested positive for covid19. South dakota public broadcasting posted the town hall. Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department commissionerd the of the Governors Office of Economic Development. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text 67372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one.
Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department of health, kim malsamrysdon, and the commissioner of the Governors Office of Economic Development, steve westra. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text is 9567372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one. Governor, i will start with you. You shared some encouraging news with south dakota during your first conference. You spoke to the number of projected hospital beds that we thought would be needed when south
Jose. Topping out at 72 for santa rosa as well as for fairfield. We will talk more about what you can expect taking a through the week, details on that coming up. Gianna . Good morning. Taking a look at the the roadways right now, if you are heading out the door early, if you plan on taking the san mateo bridge, headsup, we got a crash still in the clearing stages. That is our busiest spot this morning. Two lanes are blocked because of this. Give yourself a few extra minutes. You can always use the dumbarton bridge. As drive times go, 30 minutes. Between 880 and 101, as opposed to the dumbarton bridge, only about a 10minute ride if you go between 880 over towards marsh road. Now, the there is not a lot of volume on the roadways this morning. It is Holiday Light overall because of the president s day holiday. A live look at the san mateo bridge. This is closer to the toll plaza. We are dealing with some fog across the span there as well. 880, starting to be able to see the freeway a lit
What could we do, how could we work with Medicare Advantage plans and one way might be if a plan, if a beneficiary goes out of network, they have innetwork cost sharing but the plan reimbursing the out out of network hospital. Historically in particular providers have said no to Medicare Advantage because theyve been able to do so. Thank you. I saw three hands go up at once so we will go sarah and then down the road. Sarah with bloomberg law, can somebody comment on the idea that theres Cost Shifting from medicare to private plans . Seems to be assumed that there is but then there seems to be debate, is that really going on . Its important to differentiate between differences and price levels which are profound and dramatic and undeniable versus the theres a trickier question as to whether when medicare rates grow slowly or drop for some reason that that actually push out private rates and thats thats a much harder question and i did a paper that came out years ago that that, i think,
Ready to deliver his first address to a joint session of congress in just five hours, the president will lay out his bold agenda for our country amid new resistance from some top republicans, his own party. Plus the battle to repeal obamacare. Some republicans are getting cold feet about fulfilling president s promise to replace the president S Health Care law with something new. Congressman mark sanford sounding off on why his replacement plan is the best choice. Melissa back to the markets. The dow failing to end the day in the green which would mark the longest winning streak in the indexs 120 year history. Lori rothman on floor of new york stock exchange. Why didnt we make it today . Well blame you. Thats fine. Im kidding. A couple of things caught my attention at closing bell, melissa. Russell is comprised of smaller Cap Companies that have more exposure to the u. S. Economy. So it is down 1 1 2 today. Sad, sorry, the dow didnt hit the 13th, unprecedented record. It is only down.