in addition, it also changes the circumstance for people on medicare by putting a cap of a maximum $2,000 a year no matter how many prescriptions they have. which is especially important for people with cancer and long-term diseases. it s a god send. it will be a god send for many families. second, the bill locks in place lower health care premiums for the next three years for millions of families that get coverage under the affordable care act. they will meet an average savings of $800 a year for 13 million people. third, it invests $369 billion, granted i called for $500 plus, but it invests $369 billion to secure our energy future and address the climate crisis, bringing down family energy bills by hundreds of dollars, but providing working families tax credits. it gives folks rebates to buy new and efficient appliances, to weather rise their homes and tax credits for heat pumps and rooftops solar. it also to buy any electric vehicle or fuel cell vehicle. new or used. it a
Of the trump campaign. Just to state the obvious that we all know, the president shoots from the hip. Im not sure there was a ton of fore thought into what he said about sessions. I think he was honest and blunt about his feelings at that moment in time. They are feelings that he has had on and off for some time now. The Russian Investigation as we all know kind of wont go away as a story line partly because theres an open investigation but also because the president is preoccupied with it and he brings it up all the time, in private conversations and apparently in public ones. I think theres a real concern in terms of the comments hes made obviously because they also seem to indicate that, you know, first he wants loyalty from comey, now he wants loyalty or allegiance from Attorney General, like hes wanting to run this the way he runs his business, which is not the way the Government Works and certainly not the way the Justice Department works, which is an independent institution. The
Back better, it s a lot smaller at $433 billion in spending, which will span everything from health care costs, bringing those down, to offering more spending for climate-related costs. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by to dive into all of this. let s begin with white house correspondent mj lee. mj, your big take aways, the president seemingly very optimistic about just about everything. that s right. and there s no question about it that this would be a huge win for president biden and his party if this bill were to get through congress and end up on the president s desk and signed into law. it would make unprecedented investments to fight climate change. it would be an investment in lowering drug prices. this is something that democrats have been talking about and working on for a long time. it would provide significant subsidies on the health care front, and it would be paid for
Consensus within their own party and it wasn t popular with the public because the fact is that the public likes the affordable care act. people like having insurance coverage. things are better on the health care front than they were when that law was enacted. so republicans are now backing away from that. it won t stop them from criticizing the biden administration on what they they ll say they haven t done to keep health care costs down, but that s why you ll hear democrats talk about their efforts so far unsuccessful, but to get the cost of prescription drugs down, to get, for instance, this legislation across the finish line that would bring down the cost of insulin. things that people feel right now. but i don t think we re going to hear a real debate over whether or not we should repeal obamacare. the president s dismal poll numbers. can you turn them around? to be fair, i want to show you something. we always say don t believe one poll. don t believe one month. this is the
Rule was blocked from being implemented. better news from my perspective on the health care front where the court did allow it to stand. a similar rule that applies to all health care workers in facilities that are funded by medicaid or medicare. i appreciate your landing on the better news. thank you all. coming up, how the bombshell charges of sedition are causing shock waves in washington and what that could mean for the already wobbly balance of power. later as one former republican congressman put it this afternoon we ve lost the war to contain covid. we ll ask one of our top doctors what the government should do now. the 11th hour just getting under way on a thursday night. . u fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed. the brand i trust is qunol.