and again appointed by and reports to the hss us board of seven members. were both elected and appointed. i don't think you change that >> no. we did not. so that one is correct >> is clear were appointed by and report to the right we've added onto the request for proposal section. okay. those are the suggested edits or changes unless there's others that other board members have at this point. to both of the documents. if there's not i'm going >> i just one question. the current health certificate in other words may be substituted for a ba degree and i'm not so sure that person should have a ba degree as well. >> well, in the job description on page 4, minimum qualifications question of a baccalaureate degree from accredited college or university and human resources, business health administration or, other related disciplines and increasing levels of responsibility in employee health benefits policy design administration with five years of management level experience impairments that is been administrative expense in a minimum of three years of senior enr

board and health service board and hss to have an independent entity collect the single contribution for the 10 most populous counties in the state of california. and how we do that is we take every plan that opportunity or employees, take the employee contribution and average all those amounts and say, this is what this particular county is going to pay for their employees forgiven your. then once we get that the charter says once you have the averages for the array of benefits offered by a respected county, average those numbers. then as part of section, i think it's a-20 812 apps that do whatever you would deem as necessary to adjust that number so it represents what you would anticipate to be the average contribution afforded public-sector employees in the state for these 10 counties. with that being said, we have done the work and i want to do a strong appreciation to the work done by [inaudible] at hss and other parties because they did the majority of the collection of the data i got to be actuated to review the data and copulating and say what is the answer. >> is he in the r

on a normal day meals on wheels receives about $1 hss this in unsolicited online donations. however, this week after the president's budget was released online donors gave more than $100,000 in two days. meals on wheels delivers healthy meals to elderly people and others who have difficulties getting around. >>> president trump's budget director says the cuts to the meals on wheels program added to just 3% of funding across the country. today on "meet the press" he laid out the president's vision of his proposed budget. >> if you go back, which is what we did, and look at his speeches, his interviews, talk to him directly, what's important to you. look for that message the president was trying to deliver. that meant more money for defense, more money to secure the border, more money for law enforcement generally and more money for thins like veterans affair s veterans health care ad that's where we spent more money. >> mr. mulvaney adds that president trump is also very clear that he does not want to add to the deficit this year. >>> forget about helping hands. how about som

hss secretary? who has the magic touch?>> i don't think people live in fear of president trump going out and campaigning -- he's at 37% in the polls though still popular with the republicans, but it's not like the president is there with a green eye shade an rolling up his sleeves an saying what can we do about the provision of the medicaid. i think in a odd way i think maybe paul ryan. i don't know, do you agree? >> it's a great question you're asking brooke, we don't know because we haven't seen it yet, this is the first big legislative push an phil mat sg -- mattingly was making this, this is the first time they're in the majority with the oval office and the first time the trump team is trying to get something like this other the finish line and we just haven't seen who is the close around how they do it. >> magic number 216. >> no lbj not yet. >> do want to talk london now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> here we go on the breaking news out of london. an attack being treated as a terrorist incident. british parliament

i thought it was interesting in your interview with hss secretary tom price, when you who is the president to blame, he said the president has done all he can do to get this done. again, shifting blame up to capitol hill not to get this done. >> what we keep hearing from our pundits is it probably is going to pass. >> the house. >> the house. at the home there's 31 on the fence, we had our two former congressmen on who peeled back the curtain and said really there's eight sort of that you have to rely on and, if it's just single digits, when you're sitting there on the floor and the votes happening, there's a lot of pressure and you might pass it at the 11th hour there. >> you might pass it and then what happens? it goes over to the united states senate and everything we've seen done in the house is probably going to get untied when it gets to the senate. guess what? they have to come together in a radio, the house and a senate to get it done. >> that's what i was talking to secretary price about which is it's impossible to know what it really will look like and what it really will mean fo

he said he actually can't do much but hss secretary tom price can. >> tom price for legal reasons can't tell you what he's thinking about doing. there's laws that prevent that. we can do so much deregulation through the executive branch by the secretary of health and human services. he put one regulation out the other day which will go a long ways towards lowering the cost of health insurance. >> reporter: karl rove said the affordable care act to write some 1,400 laws and that the bulk of the relief for the industry will come from that power but the challenge will be getting the industry doctors, hospitals, insurers on board. now insurers support the deal, but the backlash has been widespread. take a look who doesn't support it. the american medical association, aarp, the american hospital association, the academy of ped at tricks and then several other organizations have also come out even the chief medical officer for medicaid broke with the department of health and human services and tweeted his criticism despite what he said political messaging. in the meantime other areas of the i

we saw hss secretary out this morning on "morning joe." he was asked pretty tough questions about the number of people who would lose their insurance. his answer was they were going to actually have more options. he was also asked, hallie, about the push for this plan, without an estimate on how much it was going to cost. here was his response. >> the congressional budget office is an organization that does their doggonest to get their numbers right. they've been underperforming when it comes to evaluating health systems. that's not because they're bad folks. it's because this is challenging stuff. >> yeah, challenging stuff, that's the part one, which is the sell. part two is what the president is going to be doing again today. you mentioned that meeting at 11:30. these are all the critical chairmen of the various committees in the house he's going to ned to get on board in order to pass this. committees like ways and means, energy and commerce. some of them have already been in meetings. he tweeted a picture yesterday. this is the shift

>> well, i think collaboration and a coordination is critical within a hss and i'll appreciate secretary price in his leadership there. careful coordination and collaboration between similar agencies and sister agencies is important. i think being on the front end and discussing with them, understanding understanding what their intentions are what is coming down the pipeline making sure that cms is prepared -- to -- and coordinated with any efforts that fda has. >> i must tell you that, and in health care has talking to many of my hospital administrators, and the rural providers in charge of cms, the term used a lot in the past has been it's a mess. i know you're going to fix what. but there is a -- cms's senator for consumer information in insurance oversight societal that's the new acronym i was not aware of that. i thought i knew most of them has responsibility for governing and health care act marketplace. what do you see it pointing under your leadership? >> if i'm confirmed as administrator my job is to implement the law to playing a role with the current law, and so i would look t