Least able to do without it. In north dakota the average farm is markedly different than the farm in wisconsin. North dakota family farms are thousands of acres involving multiple generations. The proposed a. G. I. Limits ignore this reality. They not only include income from farm operations but other wholly unrelated earnings. Usda Research Shows average offfarm income greatly exceeds onfarm income making the targets of this provision more collateral than actual. American farmers largely support the major policy shift that eliminates direct payments relying solely on this cost sharing arrangement with the federal government resulting in 10 taxpayer savings. Unlike previous subsidies, farmers pay for this by contributing 40 of the premium and the other 60 is not expended by the government unless a claim is made. The increaseing role of federal Crop Insurance as the family farm safety net has diminished the need for crisis appropriations. Absent the stability of an actuarially sound pro
By the white house to hide prices for Insurance Plans until after a user registered in obama care is a big reason for the website failure. And some of americas Top Health Insurance Company Chiefs have just wrapped up a hastily arranged white house meeting. They criticize the Communications Breakdown between the obama care websites and their own system. So many errors, they cant sign people up. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. We are live here at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. We have just in besides the breaking news, nbcs chuck todd. He is reporting the white house hopes to slide the deadline for individuals to be required to buy Health Insurance by as much as six weeks. Now individuals will only have to have started the process of inrolling in obama care by march 31st to avoid any financial penalties. Thats the white house going in that direction. Eamon javers live in washington, d. C. With all of this latebreaking news. Good evening, eamon
For people who had their policies canceled. The whole individual mandate may be fall apart. Meanwhile, the healthcare. Gov website was down for at three hours today, just three days before the deadline to sign up for coverage on january 1st. And getting back to the economy, the stock market still bullish on Ben Bernankes taper, and a nice revision for the q3 gdp to 4. 1 . A lot of economists are parking up q4 to 3 . So are soaring stocks predicting a big 2014 . All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were here live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. On the west coast. Call it a swan song to a pretty bad year. President obama claimed economic victory and defended his latest obamacare flipflop during a yearend News Conference today. Cnbcs Hampton Pearson joins us now with all the details. Good evening, hampton. Reporter how you doing, larry . Yeah, president barack obama wrapped
First of all, we couldnt dealt with the debt of the existing medicaid, which is for women, the elderly, children, and the disabled. What Medicaid Expansion does is expand that to much more of the population, and i could argue for good reasons because theyre being served off in the emergency room and so forth, but the dilemma i had was this. In a very short period of time, i would have had to put a brand new democracy bureaucracy together at a time period that i couldnt meet. I knew i couldnt meet it. When my current bureaucracy couldnt handle medicaid cost overruns happening. In my state, it was 500 million over projections set forth by the Previous Legislature and previous governor. Over 500 million over projection. Thats out of a 20 billion budget. Thats a big hit. There went all my teacher raises right there. Infrastructure. So the Medicaid Expansion is, i think, one of the most difficult issues on governors plates right now. Let me tell you the other issue we are having, and that i
Nations health care problem. We plan to take your phone calls this morning. We have tried to take your phone calls. Thank you to all of you that have called in. If you missed any of what the president has to say, it will reair tonight. We will take your questions about your health care exchanges. Facebook. Com cspan where you can weigh in. Xers of the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. He worked for duke energy for quite a few years. An event withg to kathleen civilians. All of these things do a very good job of preparing someone to be the governor of the 10th largest state in the country. Welcome, governor. [applause] thank you very much. Great to see so many people. It is great. Have ae are going to great conversation and there are so many things on my list. Tell us a little bit, if you governingt your principles. What do you think about when you think about governing a state as large and diverse as North Carolina . Lex one principle may surprise you in one that i bring from the pr