My customers can shop around; see who does good work and compare costs. It can also work that way with healthcare. With united healthcare, i get information on quality ratings of doctors, Treatment Options and estimates for how much ill pay. That helps me and my guys make informed decisions. I dont like guesses with my business and definitely not with our health. Thats health in numbers. United healthcare. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight, the partial Government Shutdown stretched into the weekend, and the impasse stretched tempers in congress.
My customers can shop around; see who does good work and compare costs. It can also work that way with healthcare. With united healthcare, i get information on quality ratings of doctors, Treatment Options and estimates for how much ill pay. That helps me and my guys make informed decisions. I dont like guesses with my business and definitely not with our health. Thats health in numbers. United healthcare. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight, the partial Government Shutdown stretched into the weekend, and the impasse stretched tempers in congress.
News. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by my customers can shop around; see who does good work and compare costs. It can also work that way with healthcare. With united healthcare, i get information on quality ratings of doctors, Treatment Options and estimates for how much ill pay. That helps me and my guys make informed decisions. I dont like guesses with my business and definitely not with our health. Thats health in numbers. United healthcare. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Wo
Try to merge the two issues in a renewed quest for a grand bargain. Speaker boehner said today republicans will insist on spending cuts if theyre going to vote to raise the borrowing limit. I dont believe that we should default on our debt. Its not good for our country. But after 55 years of spending more than what you bring in, something ought to be addressed. This year well have more revenue than any year in the history of our country and yet still have a nearly 700 billion deficit. And i think the American People expect if were going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem and the lack of Economic Growth in our country. Reporter for his part, president obama said again hed be willing to negotiate on spending cuts and other issues, but only after the government reopens. In the meantime, the president , citing the shutdown and the debt ceiling fight, canceled his planned trip to asia for economic summits. Woodruff in other news,