5 to 11 years old. new york s mayor tonight calling it a preemptive strike as cases now strike across the country, up 27% in a week. and tonight, the u.s. army now sending medical teams to colorado, michigan and new mexico, just to help treat covid patients. the nation now averaging 100,000 new cases a day. 24 states and washington, d.c. seeing cases rise of more than 10% in the last week. new york s businessmandate could effect more than 184,000 employ years. and for the first time, that mandate effecting children 5 to 11, requiring at least one dose of vaccine for many of those indoor activities. there are also new details tonight about that cruise ship out of new orleans. at least 17 fully vaccinated people testing positive, including a south african crew member. that s the omicron variant. and now everyone traveling to the u.s. from abroad, including u.s. citizens, must test negative within 24 hours of taking off for the rust. so far, the delta variant is
compromise cr? steve: they didn t exactly lift the small businessmandate. what it s really kind of these glitches where the small business exchanges were supposed to be open. it s called the shop exchange, supposed to be open on the first day of october. because of software glitches and they haven t figured out quite how to do it, they re going to say essentially, you can fill out a paper, however, it won t be available on-line probably until november. they ve had three years to get this thing ready. and yet, they won t be ready til november. remember during the original argument about whether or not we should go ahead and pass the affordable care act, also now known as obamacare, very famously karl rove said on this program, he said, 85% of the country has health care and likes it. so why blow up the entire system for 15%? there is a new poll out this morning that says that, take a guess, how many people in this
the government. well, i have been hearing it how sooner or later it is going to be popular, but it is not. parts in effect now, and we were told it would be a, you know, popular within a couple of years, and certain things happen, but it is simply not. you look toward but congressman, you and it would not be pushing back the businessmandate. and let me move on to another piece of this, and you have highlighted the fact that it is being implemented and parts of it being implemented in a sort of sporadic fashion across the country, and you now have the situation where some states are expand i expanding the medicaid rolls and setting up exchanges and your state is not. nearby in arkansas, they are, and now the medicaid expansion of medicaid is going to go towards the private insurers, but nonetheless, two neighboring states and one of which is yours where poor people have access to health care in one state and not another, and are you at all concerned about that dynamic? wel
steve: why is kim kardashian famous, aside from her father. anna: come on. you love her, hate her. she s made a lot of money. steve: she certainly has. all right. let s talk about brian: ike ian. he made a loft money off his money. steve: i hope there is no porn tape. brian: we don t know. there is so much sketches. steve: he would probably be standing up if there was. that s a whole nother story. anna: moving on. steve: house of representatives later today is going to vote on perhaps obamacare delays. remember the administration announced now a couple of weeks ago that there would be a delay in the businessmandate. brian: july 3 and 35. but no one is paying attention. steve: a document dump saying businesses would not be required to provide insurance for a year, give people a break. so the house will say, it s not fair just to give the break to
holiday week in washington, politics time or right before a big holiday, if you got bad news or something you want to get out there where you don t think people will pay much attention, why not put that out on like a friday afternoon when people are hitting the roads, going to the beach? that s the criticism this morning being heaped upon president obama. greta van susteren writing an opinion piece saying, when did the administration know about the small businessmandate, that is the 50-person threshold with which they would be forced to pay a penalty if they didn t give and provide health care for their employees? when did the administration know they were going to roll back this and put it on delay? jesse: you don t delay something if it s working well. they ve had almost four years in order to figure this out. remember, this is the cornerstone of president obama s domestic policy agenda. let s recall how this happened in the first place. first there was a waiver for the states in o