Stephen kicked off the debate in a recent and widely read article for Time Magazine where he delved into the absurd hospital charge master, revealing a hospital pricing model as absurd, they charge the highest prices to the people who are least likely to pay them, the uninsured. He pointed out his point of view that the only force disciplining it is medicare, which still guarantees wide access and quality medical care for beneficiaries. We could bring more to the system and save patients a lot of heartache and expense. In rebuttal, he says our system is so dysfunctional because medicare distorts pricing in ways that produce perverse outcomes for payers. Allow me to introduce both of our speakers before we begin. Stephen designed a company to create a viable Business Model for journalism to flourish on line. He is a feature writer for magazines and trains journalist and founded brills content magazine. He is a graduate of yale and yale law school. The chief executive officer of the game
Fasten your seatbelts, federal judge in hawaii blocked the travel been just before it takes effect, has extended that order. Derek watson further blocking the government from restricting noncitizen travelers from six muslim majority countries. In seattle mayor ed murray announced he is suing the Trump Administration over threats to withhold federal funds from Sanctuary Cities who refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials, that brought several Sanctuary City Mayors and Police Chiefs to washington for a meeting with john kelly seeking to find some Common Ground. It is absolutely untrue that our priorities anything other than keeping our communities safe. We dont have the resources to be the immigration police, nor would that benefit the population, nor will that be proven. We cooperate with ice, make sure we are aware of who is in our custody but we do not prosecute based on immigration status. First priority is to keep the bad guys off the street. Cutting funding, taking r
React to that. Fox and friends begins right now. Good sunday morning. We start with a fox news alert. Breaking overnight police have killed the man believed to be behind two terror attacks in denmark. In a shootout outside of a train station in copenhagen. Coming hours after the same man allegedly shot two officers and killed a jewish man near the citys main synagogue. He also carried out an attack at the free speech event. It left one dead and three Police Officers wounded. The chilling reporting from inside the event has been released. [ gunshots ] we are also getting a new look at suspected gunmans home. The danish Prime Minister is calling the attack, quote an act of terror. And its what early similar to last months terror attack at the Charlie Hebdo office in paris. Authorities do not believe that anyone else was involved in the coppen hagan attacks but theyre keeping the city on high alert. We find fox reporter tom carson is live in koeben hagan with the latest. What can you tell
And a Daring Rescue caught on video, officers try to save a teen who fell through the ice, they go under themselves. Everyone is okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Happy friday, january 25th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Not so much a happy friday for those 800,000 federal workers however who will miss a second paycheck on this day, day 35 of the partial government shutdown. Democrats and republicans dueling bills to reopen the government, both failed in the senate. But that set the stage for lawmakers working behind the scenes on a solution. More than a dozen senators from both parties trying to put pressure on both sides. They want President Trump to reopen the government temporarily and nancy pelosi to make more commitments border security. The white house indicating it would be open to a three week stopgap funding bill only if it included a large down payment on the wall. One of the ideas suggested is they pay sort of a prorated down payment for the wall, which i thin