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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 ....
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 ....
Our top story this morning. Bart workers are on strike. No trains are running this morning. Heres a live look at the bay bridge. Over to the Golden Gate Bridge and then the san mateo bridge talks broke down yesterday between the unions and management. Commuters are looking for a plan b this morning. We want to start with kron fours will tran live from 20th and broadway in oakland. I was here and back in july and i cant tell you that the lines are getting much longer and sooner. You can see people in line the buses come along and it barely makes a dent. Here is the video at 5 30 a. M. After we got off the air, a bus pulled up. Look at how awful this was was what it came. People have learned that station hop on the bustling. This buzz was so full of people that some people menaced to hop on and many others were told that they were to fall and was not safe for them to stand. That work left waiting for the next bus to our dry. If ....
The china bosses and i. So china has to be very careful about what this will mean in terms of their own investments in europe. If tomorrow i want a book, i show them the same scenario and done with with leo. And of course other countries rich are investing in europe. Would then have to worry a little bit about whether theyre going to rely on this for golden rule of law on which, which is the foundation of business in, in the european union. And most of our former foreign secretary of india anzac ambassadors to take it from south russia. Many thanks for speaking to us today, really appreciate it. Thank you and thank you for joining us there. And i see international, were back at the top of the i was more ah, ah, it is said talk is cheap, but loose. Talk about dirty bombs is nothing less than dangerous with both russia and ukraine preparing for new offenses. The west is not shy, talking about nuclear weapons, is the west thinking the unthinkable ah, the eradication of love ism was also c ....
Her party will elect a new leader in the next week. Its 5th and 6th years with former chancellor wishes to knock and even bars. Johnson expected to run out with a mi barker. This is al jazeera life from london, also coming up at the 60 dead off to chad. Security forces. Open fire on protest is demanding a quicker transition to democratic rule. Tribal clashes in sedans, blue knives of state, kill them over the 150 people in 2 days. And ukraines National Grid stone imposing blackouts on its citizens to allow infrastructure destroyed by russia as strikes to be repaired. Ah, you case Prime Minister has resigned to a turbulent 44 days in office full of policy. You terms, market turmoil and cabinet resignations. This trust she, she was quitting because she couldnt deliver the mandate. She was elected on by the tory party after being forced to rip up economic plans. The tories now ha ....