kat, wouldn't you see this more as a factual virtue cigna?uch dead cow and it's like the cancel culture offset. kat: if it's good for the earth, that's great. i live on the earth. however, i've talked about this on the show before about how women are not men can turn 40 into a career. they focus only on the 40 cows. bulls far, to but they are men so they can for all they want. why are they extending into the animal kingdom? i am offended. it's misogynistic and i demand an apology. greg: interesting. tyrus, what are your thoughts? tyrus: first of all, on behalf of bulls, cats, we apologize. second, can you imagine the preparation it is to become a scientist, especially if it's a zoologist, you got to go to school eight years plus in turn for another two and then go back to get your doctorate you've got to be somebody like david, travel the world, find a new species, no. what's your first assignment after all that school? you're going to count cow parts. could you imagine? scientists sitting there in the field with a monitor going i went to sch

were seen coming in and out some for the removal of those that going in and out of the compound that cigna of the u.s. consulate was also removed over the weekend now as to why china has targeted this particular consulate well they didn't says that some of the stop working that were involved in activities inconsistent with that capacity but we also know this is this was quite a significant operation a significant mission pull the u.s. because of its location here in southwest china which closely but this is located in nearby coaching and also acted as a kind of listening post for any important happenings into bed all she young of beijing of course says that this is a reciprocal move in response to the full disclosure of the chinese consulate in texas they deny any charges that they were spying will theft of intellectual property taking place that they said that it was an unjustified. and they say that washington simply false its hands and we've seen today the closure of the consulate here in changes in katrina just remind our viewers of what the consulate closures need and why it's importa

. >> in california, cigna is looking at ending it july 31. united health care has extended benefits for virtual visits through september. kaiser patients will be covered through the end of the year. anthem, blue cross says there will be no change until further notice. however, the end of any telehealth coverage in the state will just be temporary. a new state law starting in 2021 requires health plans to extend coverage of telehealth visits at the same rate as in person visits. the doctor says patients will be able to access special. is far away from their home. anyone who lacks transportation can more easily see their doctor. and she said, physicians are learning, there doesn't always need to be a physical exam to gauge information about a patient's health. >> we're learning to provide data to provide high level of care. >> it is a high level of access and a way to take care of our patients that is here to stay. >> a study by ucsf finds many doctors are planning to offer video visits as a normal part of their practic. >> yeah. we may head th

have not-for-profit insurance you shouldn't think they are all for profit we are familiar with like cigna and aetna and humana but there are plenty blue cross and blue shield plans that remain not-for-profit and still have costs that are just as hig high. >> can you give a comparison of friends quick. >> it was a country we looked a at. it's hard to do it justice in a minute or two but that's an interesting case the contrast is with canada. france covers a lot of healthcare services that pays a very small amount. 95 percent of people in france have to buy supplemental insurance to cover co-pay and other elements to the statutory health system. they have comprehensive services but the payment by the government is low. they need supplemental. people have a very good choice of doctors they like having the choice of doctors and specialists. if there is a real problem in france, it's the lack of coordination for care and i lack of focus that's not the only one but i would heavily emphasize that we saw repeated the they are very interested to get better coordination of care. interestingly it ha

president trump saying it is time and his health secretary cigna risks are overstated. are they?: the risks are not overstated but i agree it is important for kids to get back to school. the question is not necessarily if they should get back to school but how to do it safely. i would draw parallels to how we reopen. there are ways of reopening safely in some places have shown it can be done, and their ways of reopening not so safely, and it is the same thing with schools. there are parts of the country where i think in person education could very much happen. think about new york, new jersey, delaware, and connecticut. on the other hand, i cannot ingine schools reopening person in florida and texas or arizona, or perhaps they could reopen but they would shut down quickly because there is so much viral spread in the community that he would have students and sick quickly. lisa: i am struck by the certainty. you say we know how to prevent the spread of the virus, yet when i look into how the virus is spread, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty, whether it is airborne or not. of

express scripts is now a subsidy of cigna insurance. and i think that there's some concern that maybe cvs or walgreens are trying to buy it, but there's now cigna. and so my understanding now is that the decisions and the relationships and the reimbursement and the price setting now is under the auspices, frankly, of another insurance company -- cigna. so i think that this is opening up a hornet's nest in terms of pricing for all of these specialty drugs. i know that they specialize in drugs that have to be administered intravenously, and it can be administered by the members themselves. but there may be other drugs. so i point this out because this is an issue not resolved for this benefit and i think that it deserves our look at it more carefully for all of our contracts that involve this kind of a pharmacy benefit company, a for-profit company, where our members are paying outrageous amounts of money for drugs that are accessible to them in other ways. >> yes, thank you. and i think that is exactly why, you know, we are seeking addit

calling about cigna.ting $2.15 on june 8th. >> i think it's a good company i know the chart is awful. it's hard to pick a bottom lieic the stock here i think that group is going to do okay. they will eventually care. we'll go to adrienne in new york >> caller: boo ya. how is it going? >> going well. thank you for asking how about you? >> caller: good. love the show thank you for taking the call. >> thank you >> caller: what are your thoughts on slack? >> i like slack a lot. i think it's a very -- it's a great product and i think it would be great stock the question is, is microsoft really enveloping them or not? they have to decide that let's go to sean in colorado sean >> caller: jim sean hogan in denver, colorado new to the show. >> i like that >> caller: the stock i'm calling about had about 60,000 with the $10 strike price two weeks ago and some of the excitement has dissipated, my research shows over the past year, executives and insiders and other insiders have bought into the stock for an average o

.>> reporter: the governor's rollbacks on reopening feels like a roller coaster for the staff at cigna hair salon. >> we had a ton of energy when we first opened. to be told we had to shut down again was devastating. >> since the restaurants are allowed to be open outside, we thought maybe we could do the same thing, with all the safety procedures. >> reporter: following the announcements on closures, the salon moved haircuts outside, only to be told that the state is not allowing that. state code requires cosmetology and barbershop services to be performed in the licensed establishment, not outdoors. a letters sent from fresno to the governor is asking him to temporarily waive that rule for thousands of beauty professionals. >> this is a simple solution. just lift that restriction, and allow these individuals some light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: it is signed by the professional beauty federation of california. >> we want at least the option of being able to perform the services outside. this is not a solution for many skin care professionals that are licensed aesthetician

we are cigna hpitals veryy overstretched here in houston. i asked that question abouout te death.course, nobody knows s r sure. some of the factorors t that mae cocontributed to the deaths beig lower, number one, the younger patient population with this -- i don't want to say wave, it is considered thehe same way, butt this surge of patitients is generally younger. they have better outcomes. number two, therere are ththings that -- doctors haveeeeen araring knowledge, science has been advancing, so there are some treatments t that seem to e efeffective. the phyhysicians, n nurses, feel they are able toto care e for te patients betetter. that m maybe conibibuting t to e better outcomes. the concern is that if the people who are younger are then going to pass the virus ototo the older patient a the old populaon, tn we mayay see som of this shift. the other ththing is that from infection to getting sick to getttting hospital sick if you'e gogoing to and then getting critically ill, there is a lag titime of weeds in between thos. so even as we hohopefully starto e some mbers ofew infe

meeting and blamed exiles of foreign forces trying to destabilize the country following the death of cigna. u.s. customs says it seized almost 12 metric tons of human hair products exported from china which are believed to have been taken from mozambique is and other detained minorities the products were shipped from china's far west region where vast camps have been set up it's believed more than a 1000000 people are held in subjected to forced labor and abuse china denies this insisting the facilities they used to provide vocational training. is the communications director at campaign for a week it's she says companies that sell these hair products should bear some responsibility. i think that unfortunately a lot of people are not aware of these connections and hopefully that will continue to change as this information continues to come out but even most recently a few months ago amazon purchased 10000000 u.s. dollars in equipment which they claimed was to help with temperature monitoring in their warehouses in the united states but they purchased that equipment from a company that's alr

who work there, the several layers to see what's happening now in a victory in 2020 for trump will cignal of them that it's okay. that to me is far more dangerous than bernie sanders third term frankly. i get this is hard for all of us to reconcile with the reality that he might be the democratic nominee. that's difficult, sorry that's difficult for me. but i'm far more afraid of donald trump for former years i could just explain the name of bernie sanders in the white house or democratic senate that is probably not going to let him get anything through. and then we live to fight another day. i will leave it there. [applause] >> we go whole list of topics and ideas that we'd hoped we'd be able to discuss and we haven't been able to get to which i guess we should have expected. i will try to rap things up although i can't simply do better than all these gentlemen here in expressing this. you know we talk about the constitution for example and the desecration of the constitution of this administration and so much, everything that we are all talking about and i know all of you are truly sin

not-for-profit insurers and a lot of the blues are and we are familiar with the big for-profits united, cigna, and some, aetna, humana but there are plenty of state blue cross and blue shield's which are not or remain not-for-profit and they are still have costs that are pretty much just as high. >> okay, tina. was france a country you looked at? if so, could you give us a comparison of france to the u.s. >> france was a country we looked at and it is hard to do with this justice in a minute or two but let's say france is an interesting case and its interesting contrast this with canada. so, france covers a lot of healthcare services but pays very small amounts and so everyone, 95% of people in france have supplemental insurance to cover the co-pays and other elements supplement to the statutory health system. so they actually have comprehensive services but the payments by the government is low and people need supplemental services. i say people have a very good choice or free choice of doctors and they like having the choice of doctors, both primary care doctors and specialists. but there i

i'm haidi stroud-watts in cigna -- sydney. shery: i'm shery ahn in new york.berg daybreak: asia." our top stories. asian stock its look set to slide amid fresh geopolitical tensions and worries about covid-19. futures decline in tokyo and sydney. hong kong's new virus restrictions might weigh on stocks. singapore's economy contracted sharply in the second quarter, although activity may be steadily recovering from april's lows. the u.s. and china trade new punches. washington rejects beijing's claims to the south china sea, and top u.s. senators are facing mainland sanctions. haidi: that's right. we have the singapore gdp for the second quarter just crossing the bloomberg. it is bad. worse than expected, but perhaps not as bad as some estimates. singaporean economic activity contracted by 12.6% on a year on year basis in the second quarter of 2020. remember, we had the circuit breaker we implemented from the first week of april 2 essentially the start of june in response to escalating cases of covid-19. that meant nonessential parts of the economy came to a com

so you did see a little bit of an impact to stocks like cvs, united health and cigna which owns expresssomething the industry really opposed finally, also talking about tying the prices of certain drugs and medicare to a basket of prices internationally. now the president was just talking about a meeting with drug industry executives and potentially trying to talk with them about ways to lower drug prices so that he wouldn't implement that last plan so sort of waiting to hear more from him as he is still discussing this right now, guys. but the executive orders, he announcing just now. back to you. >> what is the biggest deal as far as the impact, meg is it the allowing importation of foreigndrugs? this international pricing inzechl, the fourth one, wouldn't take effect for a month and, you know, that is something pretty interesting as well drugs with a lot of exposure to medicare part b like the big drug, that is potentially impacted the most. but again, not a lot of clarity about how these things get implemented. >> meg tirrell, thank you. health care, the worst performing sector anyw

earnings today, we've got dow component proctor&gamble this morning which we are waiting on as well as cigna and we have technology giants on the hot seat yesterday, apple, amazon, google parent alphabet. what has been your assessment of earnings you've seen so far and what to expect tonight? >> we expect to see tech continue to exhibit strength, we expect to health care continue to exhibit strength, tailwinds of the pandemic as opposed to other sectors who have been hammered by it. we don't see anything in the medical data to suggest that the trends, consumer staples, tech, health care are going any time soon. for those looking on the value stocks side of the fence saying their valuations are dramatically cheap that they are raging by, we are not buying that. we still think it's a value trap, we still think you can let tech winners run so long as counter balance by defensive bull works, bonds, we like to have reserves in portfolios, we are seeing evidence that gold which obviously has been gaining dramatically momentum here is also tactical models are intrigued about. maria: all right, you