a turnaround for the zimbabwean economy —— what will they cms. cms?my -- what will they cms. they will see hope and expectation. zimbabwe had many advantages, tourism, great mining sector, those opportunities have been squandered in the last a0 years. they may still be there but at the end of the day we still have zanu—pf in power and still got the army supporting them, and we have a president likely to be one of mugabe's henchmen so i perhaps would not hang out as much bunting as we saw last might on tv but the opportunity is there for a fabulous country. would you hang out any bunting? this talk about the end ofan era any bunting? this talk about the end of an era that is at the start of a new era? the suggestion from you is that probably isn't. i think it is best to be sceptical, those who are hungry in zimbabwe yesterday will still be hungry today, there's work to be done because corruption is endemic yet the opportunity is there if those people wish to take it. thank you, richard. richard will be back later to talk through the papers with us. sta

this is more of a cms regulation, but cms basically issued regulation in the last administration that for every therapeutic class, there has to be one branded drug reimbursed by a plan participating in the obamacare exchanges. what does that mean? that means the companies have leverage to charge higher prices. there's also the fact that there isn't a level playing field for most situations where insurers and drug companies are fighting against each other. right? so the drug company if it's a branded company has monopoly, but the insurers are competing with one another. they're fragmented. there's a monopoly on the other side, and the end result is that the drug company has more leverage to say hey, if you're not going to reimburse for this drug but your other competitors are, you're the bad guy. you're the one not paying for this life-saving drug, and the patients because they're insulated from all the price signals complain to the insurance company, not to the drug company, for charging the high price in the first place. there's also the fact that the cost of r & d has gone up consid

a cm summit and the east asia summit. the afghan summit is going to be something -- the aussie on summit is going to be something important. i will also discuss the growing threat from north korea. speech, the my republic of korea's national so i'm late -- assembly, all countries must react to make sure korea's rogue regime stops threatening the world with loss of life. safety and security or goals that should unite all nations. we want progress, not provocation. we have been provoked, the world has been provoked, we don't want that. we want stability, not chaos. and we want peace, not war. mr. president, thank you for being such a gracious host during my time right here in vietnam. vietnam, ands of it is magnificent what's happening. over the past two decades, our nations have continued to grow closer in advancing our shared interests. the history of our two nations reveals the possibilities for peace and progress in our world. forward, we will achieve great prosperity and success for the american people and for the viet

and all of this in the background of medicare part d has to be within the framework of the cms guidelines, so cms also has these programs in place, so many of your medicare part d programs will have these medication management type programs in place, as well. we can go to the next slide. and then, we also have another program, in terms of outreaching to providers, in terms of sending out targeting communications. again, when we detect that they are getting an abundance of opioid medication, multiple providers, multiple, you know, pharmacies, outreaching to those providers, making sure they have a full profile and comprehensive view of that retire rea retiree and what they're taking, and helping them identify there might be a problem or issue here by outreach. we are, as michael mentioned, going to have a program when we detect fraud waste and abuse, so when we detect that, we will send that off to the dea and supporting them, as well as the oid, so we're supporting all of those -- those avenues. and then, lastly, as mentioned, so we talked about making sure that there's appropriate utiliz

we were told directly by cms that we were awarded a cpc plus contract as one of the 14 pilots for 2017 specifically because of our best practice program. i had hoped i would have a little runway in this process, but my largest competitor has copied us almost already. and i guess that's a way of saying that we feel we made some of the right decisions. and then after one year, we're not quite done with the year yet. what do we expect to see? we would have a higher degree of cost transparency at the pcp level. that's also helping them make appropriate referrals. we have, as i mentioned, a couple times, a change in the referral patterns as a result. we have a very different level of provider engagement. and our value-based literacy among pcps, which they didn't know even two to three years ago, and we have seen hedis score improvement greater than traditional pay for performance programs. which has helped us in risk adjustment processes as well as our star rating. as far as actual savings, what we're looking at, we're pretty aspirational. we think probably on an overall basis, around 2% in

baltimore is my shorthand for cms headquarters. and if it's baltimore, it's going to be really, really ugly. we're not going to get higher quality, lower cost care fast enough if baltimore owns the data. we need patients to own the data and we need silicon valley to serve patients. and we need a decentralized approach to the way data poll through all of your different subsectors. i think baltimore is a disastrous shorthand for east berlin 1976. and you're never going to solve the level of problems we need if we think the federal government can own the data top down. i want to see data disrupt lots of your subsectors, and we need to figure out a way to create data polls, not just data pushes from cms, because it's going to be too slow that way. >> senator, one of the quotes i read by you -- >> that was supposed to get applause, by the way. i'm teasing. >> senator, one of the quotes i read, it wasn't until i started to learn spanish that i understood english at all. i think that's what travels about. tell us about that. >> i think th

how many of you have seen the movie of the cm. the movie about what happens in 500 years from now the earth has devolved into a massive slump in the rich people have moved from a space island. another subject. the saddest thing about the movie incidentally is both of this month seen in the rich people scenes were filmed in modern-day mexico city. think about that. the story looks like a scene out of one of these movies. it is a place where you see open sewers and beautiful young children playing outside open sewers. people are kind of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. people are dying of cholera outbreaks. a setting that shouldn't belong in the modern world. there are between 809 million people living in one of them is to beat this guy, ken kiara. i met him outside his home just after he started working and introduced me to his home. an open sewer right outside. his beautiful sewer. he was living in one tiny room in which he tried to cook. he would bring kerosene to cook, which was a major problem that causes asthma and all sorts

new jersey and utah just got a waiver of proof but as i understand that cms has insisted the waivers or budget neutral so cms is asking for states to fund fund, to find cuts elsewhere and underfunded behavioral health systems to pay for treatment and residential settings. to me that doesn't reflect the urgency of this epidemic. can you talk to us about how new jersey dealt with its? >> i think we are finding areas and this is part of the governments responsibility is to find where spending is not being given so i think it's a good start. they think once we become convinced at the state level that we have done what we need to do in terms of cost savings the administration will have to make the next decision which is made budget neutrality from it. that is our ultimate recommendation but i can tell you a new jersey that governing is about choosing and i do believe i can make the choice as governor that are necessary to make it available almost immediately. there will come a moment when you are cutting at the end not the fata when that happens and i think the broader imd exclusion that

the wave of accusations against sexual misconduct by men in positions of power in hollywood, come i cm ave -- comedy and politics. franken, who was on "saturday night live" for 15 years, straddles all three. his behavior was swiftly condemned by both democrats and republicans in the senate who called for an ethics investigation. franken says he will cooperate. >> i feel like now the tide has changed, that there is strength in numbers, and that women are coming forward and that really the culture has changed. >> reporter: leann tweeden told us she accepted franken's apology. we reached out the 16 women who used to work for franken in the senate. six got back to us. they all said they never witnessed or experienced anything inappropriate. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman at the capitol. thanks, julianna. in a tweet today, alabama senate candidate roy moore accused republican leader mitch mcconnell of a double standard for calling only for an ethics investigation of franken while calling on moore to step down, something moore refuses to do. dean reynolds is in birmingham. >> i present

i think it is important as we are moving forward, as we are working with cms to forward a new state partnership, that it has to do two things. it had to strengthen and empower states to make the reforms and it will look different in one state versus the next. but also acknowledgment a key component will be that delivery system and that payment reform. i do not know what the future is, but i do know that if we take our foot off the pedal of in value-based purchasing and system redesign, we will squander the best opportunity we have ever had to address the underlying cost drivers of health care and not just the fig leaf people see, oh your insurance premiums are x or whatever. we have to be bold and we have to be aggressive about dealing with it. we have to be realistic and reasonable and rational about it , because at the end of the day, if you try to cram something through, if you force reform down unwilling throats, they will not be sustainable. if you say to physicians or any medicaid isere, doing this and this is ohio is doing one thing and arizona is , and in ther thing commercial market is

. -- ask it is important are moving forward, as we are newing with cms to forge a state federal partnership, that it has got to do two things. it is got 2, 1, strengthen and empower state to make the reforms that are necessary. >> you get to the last of this on c-span.org. it the search bar to find online. on capitol hill, the house is about to dabble in. first up, general speeches and legislative work expected to start a four 5 p.m. eastern with four bills on the agenda. including one sticking to reduce the allowed given to former u.s. presidents for their staff and other expenses. and over in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, alabama senate candidate roy moore to xius forde cording to a senator mcconnell singh he believes the women who have accused him of sexual advances when they were between the ages of 14 and 17 and mr. moore was in his 30's. today in the senate, work on its version of the tax reform measure, the finance committee starting work on the planet 3:00 p.m. you can read highlight that c-span.org. go to the congress tab. we take you live to the floor of the house. t

a pharmacy and physician lock-in program within the medicare advantage and medicare part d, giving cms the tools to crack down on this abuse in the medicare program. and it's important for us to maintain oversight, of course, as you know, on this program as cms is developing the rules. the promise act will increase safety for opioid therapy and pain management by requiring the v.a. and dod to update their clinical practice guidelines for managing of opioid therapy for chronic pain. requiring the v.a. opioid prescribers to have the enhanced pain management and safe opioid prescribing education and training and encourage the v.a. to increase information-sharing with state licensing boards. so i think that's critical. as part of the 21st century cures act, florida has received over $27 million in grants to help fight the opioid epidemic by increasing access to treatment and recovery services, strengthening public health surveillance, and improving pain management practices. these critical funds are supporting florida's all hands on deck approach across the state to curb opioid abuse and s

>> there is notification that cm the office of cannabis. >> i just want to chai clarify. >> -- >> there is a provision in arti6 per myth. first of all, when i temporary t holder, when applications become available, there a duty to ply n that legislation that would reqe people to apply within 30 days t application becoming available. with that said, there is a provn that legislation that does reque community outreach for the administrative permit as well. i know you guys are talking abod use outreach. i want to reiterate there i is n the outreach article 16 to prove outreach to neighbors within 30f the location notification they o apply. >> this is currently, there woun mcd that would be, you know, mel and put in an application for a, is that a 312 notification? does it go out about a change o? >> no. not with this amendment. >> okay. >> so this is the amendment that supervisor safai and sheehy put. if there is automatic conversio, dispensaries do not have is to r a change of use. they automatically get converteo adult legalization. that is not temporary,s that a t change. >> no, that ch

if i'm a treatment for that patient, and that treatment costs $13,000, under the statute , the cms only allows a $1000 reimbursement for that patient. that means the central government is in at $12,000. the fee schedules for the hospitals and application for renewal, complete and accepted by cms, over five years old, we are back on a 1989 fee schedule for the hospitals. folks leave the territory and go to the mainland for services. aree who cannot afford it impacted and the central treasury of the government of the virgin islands has to subsidize that care and transport patients to the u.s. mainland and pay for their services. we want to work with the committee to make adjustments, we want to get the medicaid match rate adjusted. million eight00 years ago to spend over 10 years. unspention of it is because we cannot afford to put the dollars on the table to make the 45% medicaid match. we are saying wave it for three years, we can spend it out of that pool, remove the fiscal cliff. i have more people on medicaid because of the disaster, and we can cover it out of that a lot of pool. >>

in cm bs that is much higher delinquency rate, but we are focused on underwriting standards at banks that maintaining strong underwriting standards to protect the banking system against possible weaknesses results and especially commercial real estate. we are seeing overall in commercial real estate the valuations are very high and we have highlighted elevated asset prices, commercial real estate generally is an area also where we do see elevated prices are low cap rates, so we are focused on the soundness of underwriting standards in the safety and soundness of banks associated with it. in detail, just how this trend is going to play out, i would like to get back to you on that. >> you have any fears or concerns? >> these are obviously significant trend that are affecting retail. what they will mean for banks is something i would like to look at more closely and get back to you. >> okay, thank you. another topic i wanted to talk generally about the makeup of the federal reserve. for the last decade, the federal reserve has had at least one vacant seat on the board of directors and s

there has been a lot of movement in the last couple of years for -- from cms, the centers for medicaid and medicare services to report on hospital outcomes. but there is still a lot of opportunity to do that in the out patient setting. i think over time the va has really been a leader in this area of really sharing a lot of their health information. we do need to get where it is on equal ground. there is more information that's available to consumers to make sure they are able to make informed decisions about where, when and who they should receive their care from. and then lastly improved coordination and management. it goes along with information sharing. how do you coordinate care? more care is at home and it's in different locations. how do we make sure that no one drops the ball as the patient goes from one providers to another. how do we make sure they don't get prescribed multiple medications that overlap and might have a patient safety issue? these are challenges for the department of veteran affairs and we'll have challenges. so with that i'll summarize and then i'm happy to t

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derek: it is not necessarily that the cm why will be the -- cmy will be the answer to that. going up in china, that is inconsistent potentially with the problems that need to be dealt with. north of seven, it is a reasonable all forecast for next year, if that forecast gets going. obviously, if the chinese continue to persist with the current situation, then it is perhaps further out, but ultimately, market dynamics welcome back at some point, and that results in its depreciating. guy: thank you very much for spending so much time with us. there are company, european head is going topenny join the bloomberg radio team on daybreak. the conversation continues on radio. up next, for us here come on the market open, we are at a crossroads. the irish border has an unexpected hurdle into the brexit talks. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: good morning. welcome back. 42 minutes past the hour. let us talk about what is happening with the brexit debate. the irish border throwing an unexpected hurdle into the brexit negotiations. the e.u. has circulated a document that calls for northern irel

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aproximadamente 1 cm de grosor. que te parece. chile: le ayudo. lorena: tengo un paÑo mojado.a. lorena: hay dos cosas. vamos a marinar la carne con la cebolla en la nevera por aproximadamente dos horas. en vez de cortarla en ruedaamÁbamos a voltear la cebolla la vamos a cortar en plumas. chile: no es a la juliana? >> eso serÍa en tiritas. lorena: esta pluma es lo mÁs importante para esto. una vez que estÉs marginando la cebolla con la carne, pÓngalo en la marinada. no muy delgado que se deshaga y no muy grueso que se tarden cocinar. yo pienso siempre cuando nosotros comemos el bocado perfecto, tiene que haber una comparaciÓn entre la papa, la carne, la cebolla. chile: eso ya se ve rico. esto se ve rico hasta para ser casi un gazpacho. lorena: excelente. podemos hacer un cambia me voy a venir por un lado de la freidora. no se preocupe si no tiene una freidora. pueden usar papas del congelador que vienen listaso en este caso de frente nosotros cortamos las papas en trozos y a la freidora por aproximadamente unos cinco o seis minutos para que estÉn bien doradas. chile: se pueden

under it statute it cms only allows a $1,000 reimbursement for that patient. that means it central government is in at 12 grand and so the basing of the fee schedules for the hospitals and application for renewal complete accepted over five years old. we're back on a 1989 fee schedule for the hospitals. folks leave and go to the mainland for services but those who cannot afford it are severely impacted and then the central treasury of the government of the virgin islands have to suubsudize that care and transport patients and they for their services. we wauncht want to work with the committee to make adjustments. we want the medicaid match rate adjusts. you gave us $300 million eight years ago to spend over 10 years. 226 million of it is unspent because we can't afford to put the dollars on the table to make the 45% medicaid match. so we're saying wave it for three years. we can spend it out of that pool. remove the fiscal clip. i have more people requiring medicaid because of the disaster and we can cover it out of that allotted pool. >> i'll be brief because

the fee schedule for the hospitals, an application for renewal, complete accepted by cms, or five years old, we are back on a 1989 fee schedule for the hospitals. so, folks just leave the territory and go to the mainland for services, but those who cannot afford it are severely impacted and then the central treasury of the government of the virgin islands has to subsidize back here and airlift are transport patients to the u.s. mainland and pay for their services. we want to work with the committee to make adjustments. we want to get the medicaid match rate adjusted. you gave us $300,000,000.8 years ago to spend over ten years. 226million of it is unspent because we can't afford to put the dollars on the table to make the 45% medicaid match. we are saying waited for three years, we can spend it out of that pool, remove the fiscal cliff, i have more people requiring medicaid because of the disaster and we can cover it out of that allotted pool. >> i'll be brief because i've shared many of the concerns, affordable care act gave puerto rico a block grant for a particular time because we ar

interest rates, come out of your high-yield portfolio or you can take it vantage of securitized mortgages, cmemerging markets that are likely to benefit from that growth that the stimulus will create. jonathan: ashish, growth is about to pick up. when we look at the broader high-yield market, it comes down to what part of the high-yield market do you want to be in? do i like subordinated banks? i absolutely do. financials are going to that of it from a lot of things going on but there is a lot of that issuance coming to the market. the where else can you see that than the bank loan market. are rising, bank loans are safe, what kind of return do they give you? you have one in three quarters. high-yield, you could have gotten five and three quarters but if you had gone into a product like our high income strategy, seven and three quarters and that is the value of diversifying and going toward those assets. jonathan: i was looking at alibaba, $7 billion. this demand is going nowhere. ashish: there is a tremendous demand for yield and it is lacking out there. it is creating this dearth of yield a

. >> bart can sign in on it, we are seeing the cm is expected to futures on it that should lead to anear? >> that is really apropos, the rise for a bit coin and to some extent, the cme group did a great job, i used to regulate them all that time. a good sense of what they do. that will go ahead and regulate these things and put sideboards, in the last day or two. and u, and they have things like circuit breakers, they will have circuit breakers, 20% for the day they are done. things like that and counterparty risk backing up in case somebody on the other side say those are the types of things i have been calling for for years they don't have to be overly zealous regulations for consumers, it is taking a while. >> speaking of enthusiasm, investors in bit coin, accepting is a form of payment, is that something, it is great to cut mastercard, but that doesn't work. >> whether it is bit coin or ether or something new and the white knight will get it right and credit card whether to discover, so there will be something you can actually use, that is a big difference. maria: a big thank you

experience booze on the ground in afghanistan, i will tell you now -- remember this -- the less they cmsthe less they hate us just the less they see of us, the less they hate us. host: joe has been waiting from silver springs, maryland. do you think the u.s. should stay in afghanistan? caller: i think we should stay. i want to make three very quick points. first is that place has been under war since 1979. it has been wracked internally by war and division. and war before that. it is a place -- it will take a long time for them to sort out a very tangled mess, for them to be able to organized affairs in a way that is not so complicated , is not so messy, and does not breed instability. the second point i would like to make is the place will collapse the same weight iraq collapsed -- the same way iraq collapse. we will be faced with a choice of either having to go back into deal with the issue or just let the region found -- fend for itself and deal with the extremism that comes out of a collapse like that. the most that can possibly be reduced is a positive-negative, which is essentially

in october, cms proposed their benefitand payment parameters which if finalized could let states erode the benefits, including the substance use disorder benefits. if states develop their own benchmark, the rule would set the ceiling on the generosity of benefits states could include in their plan. before the aca was passed, more than a third of plans on the provide coverage for substance use disorders. i am concerned under the rule proposed now, states would decide to limit this critically important benefit. given your stated commitment to to rejecting the harmful changes to the essential health benefits in the proposed rules? i believe that states are most effective in determining, they are most effective in determining the benefit packages their citizens and the circumstances you described earlier, even with new hampshire, the unique circumstances of each state. the problem, of course, is when they do that, the insurance companies come in and charge much more for that benefit. and that's one of the advantages that the central health benefits. nobody in my state plans to get an ilthe

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the nypd, the fdny, the fbi, the new york state police, cms, we have the finest security on the globe. to see them in action today the newhat once again, terrorist tactics which they have called for publicly are these lone wolves who commits an act of terror. all very preliminary. it has only been a couple hours. at this point, there is no evidence that suggests a wider plot or wider scheme. but the actions of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death, and the resulting terror, and that was the purpose. vigilant, more police everywhere, you will see them in the airports, in the tunnels. it is not because there is any evidence of any ongoing threat, or any additional threat, it is just out of vigilance and out of caution. new york is an international symbol of freedom and democracy. that is what we are. we are proud of it. that also makes us a target for those people who oppose those concepts. we have lived with this before. we felt the pain before. we feel the painted a. -- we feel the pain ted a. we go forward stronger than ever. we are not going to let them