demand the release of the other americans. we ve done a lot of good faith efforts. it would have been a good faith effort on iran s part to release the americans. my heart bleeds for you. we ve had conversations before and i want your husband to come home yesterday. i heard secretary of state john kerry, i was totally with you, why didn t they bring him up in the discussions. i heard secretary of state john kerry say he feared the talks on the nuclear weapons issue would fall apart and your husband would be pinned to it, be part of it and less of a chance to get him out because he would be seen as a pawn in the talks. do you understand or have any thought on that? that s exactly why we asked not for it to be discussed during the nuclear talks but as a precondition. even before talking, before even discussing any nuclear issues to have it be a precondition they would release. we ve taken actions that have shown good faith efforts from our end to have a precondition
additional $58 million in grants to navigators on top of the 150 million already granted to outreach and enrollment. do we need this? carl? it s worse than you just depicted. this is additional $58 million to navigator services to be performed by community health centers. there is $67 million given to groups in 34 states. we re literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars on these so-called navigators, mostly community outreach groups, whose job it is to help people navigate the affordable care act and sign up for care. how effective is it? thus far the evidence is not particularly exciting. take south dakota, $600,000 went to community groups in south dakota. there are 833,000 people all together in the state. you re spending a lot of money for relatively small state. 372 people have signed up on the private exchanges. north dakota, another $600,000,
congressman on that committee with us. how are you? fine. how are you? fine. are you accusing hhs of criminal obstruction? they re perilously close. as you know, greta, i m going to need all the facts. chairman issa may have access to some i don t have. i do know this, congress is not a third party. i don t care what the contract say, some contracts are void for public policy. you can t tell someone in the contract not to call the police if there a s a bad act or tell e person in the branch of government not to comply with that subpoena. if there is evidence secretary sebelius is telling people not to cooperate with a jurisdiction of people in congress she will be in more trouble than she s currently in and that s a lot. have you actually sent the subpoena to the contractors for information? are they under subpoena to
provide that information? yes. there have also been subpoenas to the department of haeealth a human services. what will be very interesting if the production is different, if we get less documents from hhs than we get from the contractor, that will also make our interest peak. are you going to do anything about it? there s a lot of sabre rattling historically on capitol hill when subpoenas are ignored. will you enforce this stuff and demand if there s criminal obstruction demand there be an investigation and possibly a criminal investigation? greta, as you know, congress has tried that in the past with eric holder. we even held him in contempt. we referred to the criminal prosecution to the dc u.s. attorney and it went nowhere and now in the courts. and we just had a hearing about executive overreach ignoring the congress branch.
lot of time doing things you didn t go to medical school for. we have a lot of parvets on other health insurance plans too in the exchanges who have been really stable on a current therapy and they weren t before. now they are getting restricted drug list. is this unique to m.s.? or we finding it across other diseases as well? metrics are based on outcomes that are part of cms and part of the insurance. this is why united health care said they took people off united health care, medicare advantage plans, for about a few weeks ago. metrics are based on general populations of people. i don t take care of general populations of people. i take care of difficult group other groups like that. m.s. is example of different types of treatments. you have thought about what it s going to be like if you tell a patient if the appeal is denied, to tell a patient you have been taking care of for a long time