Says its too early to tell if the latest covid restrictions are working and urges people and urges people to keep following the rules. I have to tell you, in all candour, it will continue to be bumpy through to christmas, it may even be bumpy beyond. But this is the only way to do it. Russia calls for an immediate ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh as the fighting escalates between azerbaijani and Armenian Forces. Coming up on sport today in 15 minutes time. Goals galore in the premier league. Mourinho has a happy return to old trafford, and there are nine more goals in one other game. Hello, and welcome to bbc news. Doctors treating President Trump for coronavirus say he is continuing to improve and could leave hospital for the white house as early as tomorrow. They also gave more details about his treatment, revealing that he is on the steroid dexamethasone and a five day course of the anti viral drug remdesivir. After confusion yesterday about the president s condition, the doctors also
Can Work Together as we go through the Implementation Phase to find out what is wrong with the program and if we can make some changes to fix it. Let us do it and let us do it in a bipartisan fashion. It is too big a program and too important to too many people to do that. Having said that it does appear that it is working. Let us not keep beating a dead horse. My beloved friend who gave us the beginning of our efforts today. Madame secretary, i see reports that consumers receiving plan cancellation notices from their Insurance Companies saying that plans are no longer available. Does the aca require Insurance Companies to discontinue the plans that people had when the law was passed, yes or no . Not when the law was passed. No, sir. Thats the grandfather clause. Thats because the plans existed prior to passage of the law are grandfathered in as you have said . Thats correct. So if an Insurance Company is no longer offering a certain plan, thats because that Insurance Company made a de
Unexpected medical expense. Never again will a woman have to pay twice as much as a man for the same insurance. That is why allowing insurers to continue offering deficient plans next year is such a bad policy. The law says that all plans except those that were grandfathered in 2010, must meet the new Consumer Protection standards. If we dont enforce this policy, Insurance Companies can continue offering flimsy coverage that disappears when people actually need it and no one should want that. It is understandable that there will be a focus today on what isnt working, but we must also remember what is working. The Health Insurance plans that are being offered in the exchanges are good plans. The premiums are much lower than expected. 60 of the uninsured individuals shopping in the new marketplaces will be able to get coverage for less than 100 per month. Half of the young adults will be able to get coverage for less than 50 per month. And since congress adopted the Affordable Care act,
Elaborate lengths to do that and will continue to do so. We are pleased to have this opportunity to share with this subcommittee some of the measures enacted in this pursuit. National Hockey League was the first Major Professional Sports League to launch a comprehensive leaguewide program to evaluate players after they incur head injuries. Beginning in 1997 the nllpa Concussion Program required that all players on all clubs undergo preseason baseline neuropsychological testing. After a player diagnosed with a concussion he undergoes postinjury neuropsychological testing and preand post injury test results are compared to determine when the player is safe to return or returns to neurological baseline which is a relevant determination in the players ability to safely return to play. Data collected and analyzed pursuant to the nhl, nhlpa Concussion Program confirmed to us that neuropsychological testing results had added value and should be taken into account along with player reported sy
Scenes, and helping them out policywise. What does the house want to do ultimately, because they separated the farm bill from the food stamp bill, and tackle them separately. The houseot know what is going to do, because we have a very factionalized house of representatives. They say keep the food stamps and the farm bill separate raid separate. A lot of the institutions on capitol hill see themselves as them again the world. Against the world. Trying tosswoman is be a good soldier, and the democrats are trying to get a bill through, but they know that the snap program is very important. If they had for different figured out how to bridge these gaps, we would have progress. The house and Senate Conferees are trying to negotiate some sort of deal on what they call on the ground common ground. Does the farm bill get thrown in that . Could be part of the budget agreement, and that is a good and bad thing for the senate committee. It is good because it is part of the bill, but then they lo