Fruit long after their passing. It is also important to remember the contributions of any and play ands and sizes vital role to supporting the work we do here at the center, and that includes student research, fellowships, travel, and public programming and public education. Thank all of our friends at the center who are here today, and this eating an event on the topic of civil religion, i salute you as well. For those of you who are just learning about the centers work or if this is one of our first times if this is why your first times attending our talks, we want to make sense of the past, the current moment, and to shape our shared future. I would encourage you to become a friend of the center. There are envelopes touted around the room, stuck to the bottom scattered around the room, stuck to the bottom of your shoe. There are assignments as a table at the tables on the entryways that you can take with you. I would be remiss if i did not think the outstanding staff that works at t
This is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up zimbabwes new president unveils his cabinet renewing fears that this is a continuation of the mugabe regime. The date is set for japans emperor to step down making it the first to cation in more than two hundred years plus. Clashes in honduras is the country anxiously awaits results of a contentious president ial election. Ahead of the Roman Catholic church has led a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladeshs capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region hes been criticized for not publicly mentioning the wrangel crisis during the min my leg of the tour but he will meet the refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping a military crackdown in myanmar. Is following developments from coxs bazar in bangladesh where many are living in camps. Pope francis is only the second pope ever to visit bangladesh he has been holding mass o
Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.
Next, navy and marine corps leaders will discuss the state of the Naval Aviation fleet and National Maritime policy at a forum cohosted by the center for strategic and International Studies and the u. S. Naval institute. Live coverage starting shortly here on cspan3. While we wait for this discussion at the center for strategic and International Studies to start, a look at other happening on the cspan networks today. The National Business group on health discusses how the Largest Companies are handling health care. That will be live, 10 a. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Then at 10 30 eastern on cspan, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosts a discussion on immigration ant 2016 campaign. Good morning, everyone and welcome csis. I have a brief security announcement before we kick off todays convenient. I want to share with you one of our Building Security precautions. Overall, we want you to know that we feel very secure in our building but as a convener of such meetings, we hav