Consistency and adjudication. Part of that is training. Had approximately 20 training sessions delivered by cms, their doctors, their policy experts. To the Administrative Law judges since 2010. What you will see if you look at the Historical Data is the reversal rates have actually been going down. Were at a high in 2010, 50 5. 5 fully favorable and that is now down to 35. 2 . To 35. 2 . Do you think there is a better quality of decision . The case is coming up to you. They either make better decisions at a lower level where there is something that has happened at the alj with better training and youre making better decisions earlier in finding people fully favorable more often than what would be consistent with policy. Or joint training leading to better consistency among different adjudication levels. Say in herns if you training has fixed that, it was an issue at some point that we were doing too many fully favorable and partially favorable. I dont think i would go so far as to say
Twitter. Or post your comments on facebook. You can also email us. Well get to your thoughts here in just a minute but joining us on the phone is peeper baker of the New York Times. What is the u. S. Response so far . And what is the president weighing . What are his options . Good morning. Its nice to talk to you. It is a tough situation for barack obama obviously. There are two different distinct issues here as you raised them already. First is for the american side and the european side getting access to the site and getting the bodies out of there sitting in the field many of them still bloated and literally rotting. A terrible ordeal for the families of the victims that only want their loved ones back at this point. The second point is the larger implication. What does it mean for the relations between the west and the rest of the world with russia at this point . The investigation being conducted by american intelligence agencies and others around the world increasingly pointed t
Im going to give you another question to avoid. Lets start to where the crisis hit the fan. Bear stearns has been saved. Lehman brothers was the next one up. We can talk about whether they could or couldnt but in your mind, was that the right decision as when liam fell and well leave the discussion to go for a briefing with the spokesman, rear admiral john kirby. [captioning performed by National Captioning Institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org as you may recall and i talked about this before, a couple of weeks ago, secretary hagel led a task force to accelerate resupply efforts and the Central Government of iraq and baghdad. Secretary hagel will announce today that seven additional ations have committed to helping provide Kurdish Forces urgently needed arms and question. Operations have already begun. The secretary is grateful to each of these allies for working alongside the United States mi
We look at the two nations in the week ahead. Under arrest. Investigators athis is the man that shot two Police Officers last thursday in ferguson, missouri. The officers were wounded outside the Police Department during protests that followed the resignation of Ferguson Police chief thomas jackson. More arrests may come. Richelle carey reports. At this point, in the investigation, and i stress it is ongoing, theres a lot to be done. St. Louis country prosecuting attorney announced the arrest of 20yearold Jeffrey Williams in connection with the shooting of two Police Officers thursday morning. Essentially what we charged him with. Is its possible that he was firing shots at someone other are than the press, but struck the Police Officers. The charge is still assault in the first degree they are class a felonies. In addition to the charges of two counts of first degree assault, williams has been charged with one count of firing, and three counts of armed criminal action. Investigators a
His image for different causes. This Lincoln Group of d. C. Talk is about 45 minutes. Our first speaker today is paul quickly. The director of the Virginia Center of civil war studies at Virginia Tech university. He holds degrees from Lancaster University and the university of North Carolina and chapel hill. His first book, shifting ground nationalism and the American South was published in 2011 and one both a british and american historical award. He is currently working on a book on Preston Brooks which exacerbated the tensions that led to the outbreak of the war. He has distinguished himself among a Younger Generation of historians who are bringing new perspectives to the civil war. His particular contribution is to highlight the dimensions of the war and today he will talk about abraham aiken. [applause] mr. Quigley thank you very much and thank you to the audience for coming out today or this program. One solution for the speakers wouldve been to ask for the remaining speakers to