joining us is charlie ornstein from propublica.artin to us what medicare d is and how it operates. guest: sure. the affordable care act is complicated. it medicare part d is more narrow. it is the prescription drug component of the medicare program. about 36 people -- 36% -- it helps subsidize their drug costs. it is hard to believe that it was just a decade ago that if you were old or sick, you were really struggling with your prescription drug costs. you are deciding whether you could pay our rent, buy your food, pay your car payment, or whether you would buy drugs. --s is how to really be a alleviate those choices. host: about $60 billion spent on this program in 2012. providehat goes to payments to insurers to provide drug coverage under medicare part d. government, but it is controlled by insurance companies. they bid each year to provide coverage for people in different parts of the country. people have the choice of choosing a medicare part d plan. the government plays an amount of money to subsidize the cost of everybody wh

host: we have been talking with charlie ornstein with propublica . that is all the time we have. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] ♪ hear from general motors chair and ceo daniel son he will beer speaking on the state of the audio industry. the house has completed its legislative work for the year but it will gather at 11:00 a.m. for a brief pro forma session. tw nominationso remain. several other major items include the budget agreement and the bill setting out the defense policies for next year. furthermore, we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. host: thank you for joining as. this is the final week in session. give us what we can see over the next couple of days? they're coming into session after he got this afternoon and to work there a couple more nominations with folks at 530 as is fairly normal on monday afternoons. we will see the confirmation of and patterson to be a state as well as the confirmation of jeh johnson to be the secretary of homeland security. that will clear the dec

latest numbers in terms of the enrollment in the affordable care act, and we will hear from charlie ornsteinlica, prescription drugs under medicare, tomorrow morning, "washington journal" every day beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] host: we will see you here tomorrow at 7 a.m. hope you enjoy your rest of your weekend. ♪ >> today on c-span, "newsmakers" with kentucky republican representative harold rogers. on thethleen sebelius health-care law and the health care website, healthcare.gov. then treasury secretary jack lew testifying about the system. >> we want to welcome back to ."niel newhauseto "newsmakers" daniel newhauser is a reporter for a roll call. derek wallbank is with bloomberg news. >> thank you for being here. capital ist of the julius. they are both saying this will avert any shutdown fears for january 15 and possibly for october 1 as well. thatno