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i m aishah hasnie. and they ll feast on a big banquet of barbecue. the main hall where the candidates will be speaking later today, but the g.o.p. presidential front runner donald trump not expected. rich edson joining us on the ground in des moines with a special guest. hi, rich. hey, good afternoon, aishah. the barbecue is coming a little later today. we ve got some speeches coming up and that includes senator tim scott who recently declared he would be running for president. senator, thank you for joining us this afternoon. it s a crowded stage, a crowded field. how do you break through? easily, the optimistic positive message when i take it on the road, people are starving for optimism as long as it s anchored in conservativism and you have backbone. and i have both and that s good news for the american people and the campaign trail. you ve talked about the positive message and explicit about it. what do you think of the tone from some of the other candidate ....
Best practices within the ihs system itself and shared those and incense vized the ability to move that kind of activity that is providing highquality care for individuals in that system, in certain areas, and making certain that were able to extend that across the country in the ihs. Okay. We look forward to working with you on that. I think Best Practices is a good place to start. Obviously, those have not been employed in a lot of facilities in our state. In 2009, cms issued a final rule that required all Outpatient Therapeutic Services to be provided under direct supervision every year since then. The rule has been delayed. Either administratively or legislatively in small and rural hospitals. I shared this with you as well. In my statement we have a lot of critical access hospitals, rural areas, big geography to cover, and sometimes difficult to get prov ....
Out with my optimistic perspective, and tax cuts and jobs act, i was one of the three main authors, lowered taxes by single moms, and returned to the american people more than $4,000 on average. it s time for us to get back to work, get people their money back and let s let the american dream continue to be the beacon that we all look for. republicans talk a lot about debt and deficits, a big vote in the senate. yeah. back when you were in the house there was a lot of talk about block granting medicaid, that you can t deal with deficits and debts unless you deal with entitlements. republican stopped talking to it and should they? in 2011, a reduction over $40 billion i had a good fortune of being part of the team that cut the budget for our country. there s no question a, we have ....
What is it is replacing. dr. emanuel, let me ask you this, given the fact that the house republican leadership has come out with some changes, does that make it better? well, actually in some ways it makes it worse. and some of the changes are irrelevant. you know, requiring people who are able bodied on medicaid has nothing to do with healthcare. maybe ideological but nothing to make the bill better. block granting medicaid to states is actually going to be worse. in a block grant more people need medicaid it doesn t go up it doesn t reflect people. have you got a recession and rural kentucky, rural west virginia, rural areas in this country are going to be devastated because they won t have the money to provide healthcare. this is the reason the american hospital association, the american medical association, aarp are all against this bill. it s bad for medicine and it s bad for healthcare in this country. steve: doctor, when you tell donald trump these things as you did yesterday, ....
That basically, people aren t going to understand before this law is passed the damage this could do to our nation. that you have taken that we have taken a fundamental step forward with obamacare to finally for the first time in our country s history protect the poor, the sick and the old from the crushing burden of health care bills and this law would remove that promise in the short term, in the long-term, it would go further by block granting medicaid and actual remove the promise we ve made since 1965 to protect all of our indigent and lower income disabled and elderly and low income families from crush crushing medical bills by block granting medicaid this law proposed to cut it by 25%, one of the great pillars of our society which is improve millions of lives and slash it by 25% to give atach break to the rich, i don t understand why this makes sense. what is this really all about? this was the president yesterday in the oval office, you know, ....