Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
Will cover a total distance of about 35 km by land and water. The exercise includes a seventeenkilometer forced march and a kayak trip along the gauja river. From Indian Summer to cold and rainy autumn with sleet in places. Autumn surprises with its contrasts. We will also see unsettled weather over the weekend. Most of the area will experience heavy rainfall and occasional downpours. Expected. On saturday night the thermometer will drop to almost zero, with daytime highs reaching 18. Unstable and windy weather is expected in belarus this coming weekend; under the influence of sedentary frontal sections, most areas will experience rain of varying intensity and duration. On saturday, october 21, the rainfall will reach heavy levels in places overnight. At night, minimal. Daytime highs will range from 4 5 in the north to 11 16 in the southern regions of our country. The wet and cold weather will continue into the first half of next week, becoming several degrees warmer and foggy across m
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
Enrollment. There are some lessons we learned. There is some really important steps forward we need to take. There are going to be Lessons Learned at the federal level and state level. And there should be. Number one is this kind of massive i. T. Build and the implications of that. I think the difference in how we approach it has to be reflected on. We have to rethink at the government side how we do these things. For us in rhode island, weve been very fortunate. Our systems working really well. Were moving to system stabilization as opposed to as opposed to fixing were fixing, but as opposed to having to redo. That issue is the core of all of our businesses. Its essential lesson learned. Its essential cooperation between state departments and state agencies and quasipublics and the state leadership. If you tonigdont have it, its difficult to make sure you accomplish your goals. Third, there are really fundamental problems in the basic law of the aca that need to be cleaned up. If we d
Cspan. Live monday night, our series continues. Rack cara car wreck. Behold him i was in the hospital person praying the other would be ok. The other person was one of my best friends. Didnt know i didnt recognize that at the site of the crash. Because i prayed over and over for him to be ok, then he wasnt, i thought nobody listens. God wasnt answering my prayers. I went through a long time of not believing, not believing the prayers could be answered. It took me a long time and a lot of growing up to come back to faith. Laura bush, monday night. Next, the challenges of implement a state Health Insurance exchanges. Speakers include the secretary for the kentucky cabinet for health and family services, a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama during the state of the union. And experts representing a la for you, maine, new jersey, and rhode island. This was hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. It is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning and welcome to our Robert Wood Johnson foundati