About becoming smart, strong and tough men. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the head of nato is calling for a Spearhead Force to deter any russian aggression in eastern europe. Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced the plan today, in response to russias actions in ukraine. It calls for several thousand troops, ready to move on short notice. Alliance leaders will consider the plan on thursday. Well turn to the days events in ukraine, after the news summary. The United Nations Human Rights Council today condemned the Islamic State
Enrolling in the program as a result. A question about the physician spending projections. You mention that your projections included the 21 i think reduction thats coming april 1st. Actually, no. Im sorry. Ill let you finish. I just wanted to clarify. Sure. The 21 reduction is in current law and thats under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. But what our projections our projections are consistent with the projected baseline scenario in the Medicare Trustees report. And in that, payment rates are expected to grow at 0 for 2015, then. 6 through the remainder of the projection period, per year, on average. These projections do not include the cut under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. In terms of the couple times it came up, the increase in highcost specially drugs and a specific mention of the hepatitis treatments that are out there. Does this analysis include any offsetting factors for someone getting cured of hepatitis and therefore not having ongoing costs in the future as a re
Must be expert riders willing to risk death the daily. Wage is 25 a week, which is a large sum of money for the time period. But of course, risking death daily comes with this type of occupation. The telegraph comes across the prairie and often times the is stretchede across the sagebrush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the planes. With the telegraph laid out across the prairie, annals would run through it. Native americans learned the talking wireman more white people coming down the prairie. They would use it for ornamented accessories or jewelry, etc. The story of the trails ends with the Continental Railroad bringing in mass populations very rapidly through the western United States. It also begins a new chapter with the modern highway that we now have today. I hope visitors take away from the Interpretive Center here in appreciation of the people that settled the american west. They were not large people. They were tough people with
Angry about this money and the millions that the coke brothers are spending through many different venues. If youre just tuning in or listening on cspan radio, our focus, the mid term elections less than 60 days before voters go to the polls and early voting in many parts of the country. Ac from missouri. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller ive always considered myself a democrat. Ok. Im 56 years old. And a taxpayer. From a single mans point of view, missouri ive been clearly, cleared for medicaid. But missouri being having opted having medicaid come through. Since im legally by medicaid i am not eligible for obamacare. As a u. S. Tax citizens, as single, a 56yearold man, where should i swing my vote to get the most impact . I said this time i want to know should it go to a woman, should it go to im right now, im always considered myself democrat. Ok, im at this point in my life where maybe i need to switch my way of thinking. Host thanks very u much for the call. Nathan let me turn to you
And im reena uribe. We begin with the growing International Concerns over russias movement in ukraine just as president obama heads to europe today. The president is visiting estonia in a show of u. S. Support for the baltics before heading to the nato summit in wales where the ukraine crisis is looming large. More from abcs gloria riviera. Reporter with large swaths of the country ravaged by war and prorussian separatists readying for more fighting deeper into eastern ukraine, this was the new normal for one mother taking her daughter to the first day of school in mariopol. Im scared that someone will shoot, she says. Her daughter recalling explosions and tanks. Abcs Hamish Macdonald is there in mariopol. Theyre ready if, in fact, theres an advance and this trench system will operate as a last line of defense for this city around a Million People live here and theyre divided. Reporter ukrainian leaders say there are thousands of russian soldiers fighting alongside the rebels amping up