Whatever you call it, critics are calling it a betrayal. I think that taxpayers will be upset with this idea. Reporter San Jose City councilman john mccain is says what the bta is proposing is a bait and switch, a betrayal of the spirit, if not the letter. We told taxpayers would improve the roads and driving conditions. This will just be a broken promise in the future. Reporter in 2016, voters in supported this measure, projecting to generate more than 3. 6 billion over 30 years. The money was earmarked for transportation projects, with 25 a hard cap on b. A. R. T. Construction. What is the best use of the sales tax . Is there timing to do that, based on project delivery . The very beginning of that exercise. Reporter last week, vta floated the controversial idea, what if the shared the tax revenue generated over the next decade at 75 to build b. A. R. T. , the likely spins of other transportation projects . We have got to say that this it was one thing i think we should follow throug
She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
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