bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
Praise, you talked only about taxes. You said essentially that you have pushed this item for local Property Taxpayers for the region that albany was very proactive in pushing Thistaxpay Faso only talked about the environment. This is to eliminate and save new york 19 Property Taxpayers millions of dollars. If this is about reforming medicaid, why are and you your colleagues only talking about tax cuts . Youre praising tax cuts. I wholly support john faso and mr. Collins amendment. Here in western new york, people are leaving in droves because they cant pay their bills and take care of their homes. What we should do is put the burden on the State Capitol because they control how this program is delivered at the local level. New york is one of the only states that puts it on the taxpayers to foot the bill. From my perspective, this is a great amendment that needs to be supported and reduce the 145 million in my low income areas across this district are going to be relieved. Thats the rig
which ironically, bret, isn t even good for them. so if we roll back those regulations, allow ourselves to drill and frac and unlock labor in this country, that s going to help small businesses and the rest of this country alike. bret: how would you address rising healthcare costs while maintaining quality of care? i gold so far as to say improving quality of care. because we don t really have a healthcare system in this country. we have a sick care system that s that s what causes the costs to balloon as well. we have a system pay for all kinds of pill pushing behaviors. feeding tubes or other types of expensive interventions. my wife actually is a throat surgeon at the cancer hospital in ohio state. many she treats as a surgeon have not swallowed food for years. yet we have a system pay for all kinds of pill pushing behaviors doesn t in many cases pay for the procedures she does except she doesn t get paid for many of those procedures. it s a broken system. and so i think we need
Dr. Firouz Daneshgari writes that health care systems have 'become financial institutions that aim to increase their revenue by delivering more sick care services, regardless of whether the services positively affect the health outcomes of their consumers.'
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