Harry reid is calling it a career after five terms in the u. S. Senate. He announced today that he will not seek election to a six term. He released a statement that said, i have had time to ponder and to think and got to be more concerned about the country. The senate and the state of nevada than about us. As a result, im not going to run for reelection. Heres a look at portion of his video announcement where he talks about his plans for the remainder of his term. This accident has caused us for the first time to have a little downtime. I have had time to ponder and think we day that we have to be more concerned about the country, the senate, the state of nevada and us. As a result of that, i am not going to run for reelection. My friend senator mcconnell, dont be too elated. I will be here and i will be doing the same thing i have done since i came to the senate. The National Republican Senatorial Committee did not take long in reacting. On the verge of losing his own election and lo
These are the goals that the secretary announced. Really focus on the dark circle on the page. The dark circle is the percentage of medicare fee for Service Payments in the alternative payment models. In 2011, they were zero. No medicare payments in the model. In 2014, at the end of 2014, about 20 of the 362 billion of the medicare feeforService Payments, excluding Medicare Advantage. But the numbers are similar. 20 were alternative payment models. The goal is by the end of 2016 30 of the feeforService Payments will be in the new alternative payment models that work and 50 by the end of 2018. So this is the first time in the history of the Medicare Program that we have set Broad National goals, and what is critical to understand is its not just a medicare project. This past wednesday at the white house, you may have seen president obama picked up something called off something called for health care learning Action Network where we have convened a commercial payers medicare organizatio