world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
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 providers out to these areas. So, the question is, if confirmed, will you work to
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not without its own challenges for retail sneers it makes it difficult to shop. you might be more inclined to shop at amazon or something online. i wonder if it turns people away. and i say this as someone who went into a drugstore just this weekend and had to flag someone down to get a product as i watched someone head out the door with two 12 packs of beer, shoplifting the beer. beer is not on your list, but maybe we should add it. stores are already under the cvs s of the world and brick and mortar are under a ton of pressure from amazon and this is creating more challenges. people are walking out of the store and buying the products on amazon. it creates the hassle factor. it also means maybe shoplifting at a larger scale. why the spike? folks are reselling it sometimes on an amazon, right? so the incentive has sort of grown. it s not just sort of stealing
before, one out of three physicians who ought to be able to see medicaid patients in this nation, do not take any medicaid patients. there s a reason for that. whether it s reimbursement or whether it s hassle factor or regulations or the like. but that s a system that isn t working for those patients. and we auought to be honest abo that, look at that and answer the question why and then address that. now, i ll note that when the house version of the aca passed, robert pear in the new york times wrote an article about a michigan physician, an oncologist, who had so many medicaid patients from michigan medicaid that she was going bankrupt. she had to discharge patients from her practice. now, the ranking members said we can t have alternative facts. agree with that. we also know new england journal of medicine article speak being medicaid expansion in oregon about how when they expanded medicaid in oregon, outcomes did not improve. so, i suppose that kind of