Redesigned if you worked across state lines. I dont think theres any reason to think that the plan issues change if you have an interstate exchanges about administrative infrastructure. One thing that is present are the multistate plans which is not quite interstate exchange but it is the potential to increase competition across the lands. I cannot imagine an interstate exchange. Its difficult for me to imagine an interstate exchange either helping facilitate or not being a real challenge to a state thats doing the third way expansion. I dont want the 36 counties in mississippi that i want to keep my 75 and try to get them is covered as possible because that is within the degree of illegal operational and policy flexibility that i have. Okay. This has been at least for me and enlightening conversation and keep in mind allens presentation and what does it take to get to yes . We will be watching this as it develops over not just the next weeks but the next couple of years and we will se
Promotes better access and better healthcare particularly for society most audible. Mightt issues in the senate when it comes to health care but before that i want to ask you about this new survey that came out that shows health care in the United States particularly for those under the Affordable Care act. 8 in the First Quarter of 2022, that previous number was 9 in 2016. What is the number tell you . Why is it significant . Guest it is really as historic moment in our progress. We saw a drop after the Affordable Care act and this is a new low, a new high over 6 Million People have had coverage including 5 million including children we have seen an uptick in a number of the insured and this is a significant downward trend in universal coverage but we are down significantly on the uninsured in 2019. The biggest occurred among people with low and moderate incomes. Statistic about the survey half of those they got insurance from ac marketplaces can you elaborate on that . Guest these ga
For security of democracy david washington journal live 7 a. M. Eastern friday morning on cspan or cspan now our free mobile app. Text messages and tweets. This is sarah call and she is with the Vice President of coverage and access to talk about health care in the United States. And ms. Collins think you for joining us. Thanks for having me. About the fund, what is it as far as the thing you do when it comes to health care . We are a nonprofit nonpartisan foundation, we support independent research on Health Care Issues and promote better access and improve call quality and efficiency and health care. So we invited you on to talk about issues in the senate when it comes to health care. Before that6 Million People. We have seen an uptick in the number of uninsured and it is a significant downward trend. Its on a path for universal coverage. That we are down this is a new low and new high in coverage for people over six billion people have coverage since 2019. This is including more tha
The finance committee will come to order. The last place anybody wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. That is precisely at unfortunately with the finance committee needs to discuss today. This mornings hearing is an update on the investigation senator, grassley and i, along with senator young have been conducting for more than 2. 5 years. It examines a network of dozens of organizations with the demand to organ transplant and a group that oversees and coordinates them. The United Network for organ sharing. We have reviewed 100 thousand of their documents, totaling more than half a million pages. Before i get to specific findings, i want to frame what we have learned as simply as possible. Already Many Americans are dying needlessly becauseuno and many of the transplant organizations it oversees are failing and seem uninterested in improving. The existing alphabet soup of acronyms and organizations, i will start out with a bitter b
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