far seem to be in the way they put it, quote, extremely mild. do you take comfort in that? what does that do to your level of concern about the omicron variant now? i think that could potentially be good news. this is a doctor taking care of patients on the ground there. as everyone has said already, tease are early days. we know that the majority of the patients that were initially seen were young, and those patients tend to have milder sort of courses of illness already. so, you know, how much of that is something we should take comfort in versus this is sort of a natural trajectory of this particular virus. i think there s all sorts of data. there s two things to point out. one is that south africa oop op was in a quiet time right now in terms of the overall pandemic. it s sort of late spring there, kate. numbers have come way down. weather is getting warmer, all of that. but at the same time, when we
what pelosi and the president says would be less than a million people would choose to voluntarily leave because of this entitlement law. turns out now that figure is three times as large. but also, look, this is not working from a technical standpoint with the website, with the sign-ups. it is also not working from the human standpoint. people who have chronic diseases, who have depended on a doctor for years and years, are now being told you will not keep your own doctor. you have to find somebody else. this is devastating news to somebody who has multiple sclerosis for example. they re told that the doctor taking care of them for years and years is not available to them because of this new law which was supposed to help people at the human level. it is a disaster from the point of human suffering. bill: senator, i appreciate your time. we will see what comes on this next. glad to be with you. bill: appears to be anybody s guess. roger wicker from mississippi. thank you. jamie. j
which i thought was a bad argument. one that would politically you wouldn t be able to sell a single payer plan. all this stuff we re talking about here gets down to the question of cost and delivery and i m not arguing that we don t have excellent medical care in this country. when you if you can afford to get it. i think there s two levels of care in this country. one for those who have money and the rest of the people. that s what you ll create. you don t thing that was there to begin with? no, i think in general, you got good medical care. whether you re going to an emergency room or you have a private doctor taking care of you. what you re doing now is creating everyone on obama care we talked about this a lot. a good doctor is going to take a private patient or a group of private patients rather than seeing what he can get on obama care and seeing what they re going to pay him back. it s medicare and medicaid on steroids. they don t like it. ask any doctor in the wo
they say the move will hurt patients jie. the government is looking to manage better care by having a patient centered medical home. you have a doctor taking care of every aspect of the patient and coordinating it, but this is not a patient center decision. in a statement released to a local tv station, united health care says they will help patients transition to a new doctor. it is day 13 of the partial shutdown and for lots of americans the past few days have felt like alice falling down the rabbit hole p. what are the odds you will come out unscathed? a lot of americans are feeling the brunt of the shutdown, but both republicans and democrats are taking hits in the polls. perhaps republicans more than democrats. ultimately who is to blame and who suffers the most politically? well for answers to that we are joined by former republican congressman from florida.
how about you? oh, i m a bears fan. she s a chicago boy. i ll give you the highlights. there you go. okay, drew. thanks a lot. drew griffin here in studio 7 for suzanne malveaux, who s over in afghanistan. let s get you up to speed. new numbers out today provide more evidence of a very weak job market. the number of americans filing first-time claims rose. it was up to 414,000 last week. why is that important? economists say the number needs to fall below 400,000 to reduce the unemployment rate, which is stuck at 9.1%. president obama lays out his jobs plan tonight. our special coverage, obvious, beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern. republican front runner rick perry made his debate debut last night. quickly, it became clear that he and former massachusetts governor mitt romney were willing to slug it out. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four yeast in massachusetts. it s is a great state. texas has zero income texas. governor