york. so tammy, insurers are blaming trump and trump blames the democrats. can you clear up what is causing this huge spike in cost? certainly obamacare premiums have risen a lot in recent years, but many signs they were stabilizing for next year. then president trump ended the funding for the cost sharing subsidies. the insurers have to provide them to lower income enrollees and they need the money to do that. they decided to raise premiums to make up the funding loss. let s use pennsylvania as an example. regulators expected a 7.6% increase. instead they recently announced a jump of 30.6%. pennsylvania s acting commissioner said and i m quoting, this is not the situation i hoped we would be in. due to president trump s refusal to make cost sharing reduction payments for 2018 and congress s
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rates on the richest americans, many of whom have done nothing particularly useful to get rich, and in firing teachers so we can pay for tax cuts for the richest americans, they just can t keep doing that. i think if you look at the fact that they always talk about, well, regulation has been the problem and this is what has strangled the corporate america that they can t move because they re regulated. the fact of the matter is, if you look at the bureau of labor statistics, 0.2% of layoffs was caused by government regulation, 30.6% caused by lack of demand. so it s just a blatant lie, it s hogwash what they re saying. but already before the bill even gets to the senate, this breakdown of now how we re going to go piece by piece, eric cantor, before he even studied how it breaks down, this is what eric cantor showed in the spirit
carbon emissions last year worldwide were the highest in history. the international energy agency is calling its latest findings a quote serious setback, but what does this all mean? the implications to the environment and as a result to you and me are quite troubling and we are going to break it down for you today in the big breakdown. here is what the international energy agency found. emissions up 5% breaking the previous record set in 2008. and levels jumped to 30.6 giga tons and to realize how much that is, consider one giga ton is 1 billion tons and one car weighs one ton. the world is emitting what weighs a 30.6 billion cars in greenhouse gases, but the thing is that the u.n. set a 2 degree goal in the talks last year in cancun which is to limit the increase in global temperatures
cooperation and development, it s called. it usually studies economic data for the world s largest economies but it s releasing its first obesity forecast because many governments worry bigger people could lead to bigger health care costs. gee, you think? according to the report, the u.s. currently leads the fat pack with an obesity rate of 30.6%. prosecutors say a group of high school students pestered, harassed and bullied a classmate so ruthlessly, they pushed their 15-year-old victim to kill herself. now the suspect s lawyers say there s really no case here. we ll explain what the judge what they told the judge today and investigators say two guys broke into a home, tied up and tortured the family, lit a fire and drove off. now chilling details of what the police say the murder suspects did before the attack. it seems they were text messaging each other. and wait until you see. [ male announcer ] what is performance? 0 to 60? or0 to 0?