, karenewsmakers ignagni president and ceo of Americas Health insurance plans. She will offer the Insurance Industry perspective on the Affordable Care act including delays and how the act has affected competition. Here are some of her comments. Create a lower tier so people could gradually get into the program so they would be part of the risk cool, so we , so we dorisk pool. Hold the healthier people outside. We have the healthy and the sick. Just from a human natures perspective, it make sense. Wouldnt healthier people congregate in the lowest tier . We are not seeing that. We have the bronze, silver, and gold areas by that hypothesis you would expect a high number of people to buy bronze. Instead we see more in silver. The point is, people are choosing. What i would do is give people more choices. Human nature suggests people like that. They are in more control if they have more choices. I would do that, julie, too. If the targets are not met that are so importance to the implement
We had the cognizant ceo on, hes one of the youngest ceos, 38 or 39 years old. This is one of the deals that i didnt realize cog anizant is a big as they are. They were there before but this changes the game because the systems that this company is buying puts together, we may use it, actually, its back technology between the payer and provider. So thats what the deal is. A nice little merger monday. Joe is looking at me like this is okay. Good job. Not interesting. This is what you want. You tell him you want breaking news. You want news at 6 01 in the morning. You want news. Okay. I dont recall trizetto being acquired. I have never heard of them before. Im sure you hadnt yet until you got this. I dont even know if i know apex well. You know apex. In the u. K. , thats where we were based originally. This company is based in colorado. And what in health care would or did they actually they actually do the Technology Service behind sort of the computers where you have the provider and t
Among the key market drivers, we have the fed. Policymakers will gather in washington at the start of a twoday meeting. A decision on rates is expected by tomorrow afternoon, but more important than rates, we have the question of what to do about taper. Will it be cut even further . There are a number of other economic reports to watch today. At 8 30 eastern time, we get december durable goods. Theyre expected to rise by 1. 6 . At 9 00 p. M. Eastern time, we have the s p caseshiller home index. An hour later, january Consumer Confidence and the richmond fed survey. In earnings central today, the beat continues. We have dupont, pfizer and ford. Those are among the names expected to post results before the open. Dupont just crossing the wires and well have those numbers in just a moment. This afternoon, well hear from at t, yahoo and amgen. Becky, great you have to back. We have Global Market news for you, which is really what may be driving all of this. China shares eeking out gains fin
Uniform. Once again, happy veterans day. Especially my dad in baltimore, maryland. Happy veterans day, dad. That does it for way too way early. Morning joe starts right now. Bob schieffer is the kind of guy who knows how to take care of business. He interviewed president obama sunday morning yesterday morning, didnt beat around the bush, didnt waste any time. Went right to it. This is face the nation. All the president s in modern history who have been successful, lbj, fdr, Ronald Reagan, teddy roosevelt, bill clinton they all seem to have a zest for politics. I dont have a sense that you have the same feeling they did. It makes me do you like politicians . Do you like politics . No. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you. I enjoyed it. All right then. Good morning it is tuesday, november 11th, veterans day. Welcome to morning joe. With us on the set we have Mike Barnacle and msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. And willie an
Defending donald trump, jr. , on sunday. Seeing that there was nothing illegal about the meeting that he held with the russian lawyer during the president ial campaign. Now the secret service is getting involved. Jon Kristin Fisher live at the white house for us. The secret service stays away from issues like this, why is it weighing in now . Over the weekend, the president s personal attorney seemed to try to shift the blame from the secret service by saying that if these russians were really so questionable, then why did the secret service not properly fed them and keep the meeting from taking place . Heres a clip. Well, i wonder why the secret Service Official is nefarious, why did they allow these people end . The president had secret Service Protection at that point. That raises questions. The problem with that logic, then candidate trump had secret service production, but his son did not. The secret service says donald trump, jr. , was not a protest t of the secret service in jun