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. >>> mary agnes carey covers all things health care for kaiser health news, khn.org. she's joining us on the phone in washington. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so walk us through some of the highlights of what house republicans are now working through. first, repealing the financial penalty for the insurance mandate. what does that mean? >> this is a requirement now in affordable care act that you have health insurance or pay a penalty unless you have an exemption for a particular reason, so what they're saying now is that you won't be -- you as an individual will not be charged a penalty if you don't enroll in health insurance. this has been something republicans have wanted to do for a long time, they don't like the idea of the government requiring, most americans, rather, to have insurance or pay a fine. that's why they put that into the proposal. >> to be clear, it is repealing the insurance penalty, but not the insurance mandate. why? >> right. well, as we know, the first part of this effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act

what i wanted to share with you and my colleagues and also anyone watching this speech is that the kaiser family foundation which is, again, one of the most respected health care, nonprofit, educational institutions in our country, has produced an interactive website which basically shows -- it gives any american an opportunity to scroll across the map of america, find the county you live in, compare the existing law with the american health care act. gain, that website is kff.org/ interactive. again, kff.org. i had an opportunity to use that site for my district, eastern connecticut. the home of the uconn women huskies, the oldest submarine base and what it showed is for people living in new london county and wind ham county and middlesex county, if you're 60 years old and making $50,000 a year, you lose $3,230 in terms of premium tax credits compared to existing law in the proposal which was finally unveiled two weeks ago. if you make only $30,000 a year and you're 60 years old, you ose $5,850, 59% reduction in terms of your income assistance buy health coverage. again, the prior number

minutes left with julie rovner of kaiser health news, khn.org, to check out her work there. walter jackson on twitter has a question. please ask -- healthcare ceo's that help patient care? >> this was basically a the democrats put in care -- dable pay a special d tax. reconciliation, you can go after taxes, that would be bill. than the republican in then't have that much otheral exact won't now. to say mocrats can use this a giveaway to wealthy ceo's? i suppose they can. host: debbie, marie tta georgia, independent, go ahead. caller: i would like to ask a question that is a little far the box. as alternative to single-payer possibleould it not be for profit ate not insurance companies because it healthcare a lot of these days is driven by profit if we take the profit margins out of the healthcare, would that easier to get insurance and with he problems between the two parties would solve some problem fist insurance companies were these profits of a lthcare, shouldn't be profit service in this society and more people with care. would like to get your take on something like th

then mary agnes carey from kaiser health news discusses the latest on the house leadership's effort to pass the affordable care act's replacement. then in alabama congressman, member of the house freedom congress, talks about the gop health plan and why he is against it. be sure to watch and's "washington journal," beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. trumpcer: next, president talks about the house republican health care bill and is critical of the current affordable care act. he joined medicare and medicaid services administrator seema verma, who was hosting a discussion on women's health care. pres. trump: thank you very much. i'm sorry, we just getting an update on london. thank you very much, i appreciate you being here. it is a great honor, a very great honor. i want to thank vice president pence, secretary tom price, and --inistrator seema verma incredible job, by the way -- for the time and energy they put into repealing and replacing obamacare ahead of tomorrow's crucial vote. i want to especially thank seema , the administrator for the cen

and kaiser health news chief care splendid will review the republican health care bill. join the discussion. services tom human price made an appearance at today's white house briefing to talk about the republican health care bill. it is about 30 minutes. >> good afternoon. first let me share with you what an honor it is to serve as the secretary of health and human services. i am the third physician who is had -- has had the honor out of 23 individuals. the mission at our department is to improve the health and safety and well-being of the american people and we take that mission very seriously. for many americans right now, the ability to gain health care or health coverage is a real challenge. for most americans, they receive their health coverage through their employer. it is about 175 million folks. those individuals will see no significant change, other than they will not be a penalty for not purchasing coverage. for the folks in the medicare system, there'll be no changes at all in the current law. but we are talking about those people in the individual and small

abc7 was in santa clara in yesterday's event put on by kaiser permaneur kaiser. 40 girls spent the day operating, kind of, with the help of orthopedic surgeons and team doctors for the sharks and warriors. >> they are doing a variety of things including learning how to fix fractures, so something that would be done in an operating room so they get hands on experience with drills and bones and fractures. >> the initiative was started in 2009 by two women in san francisco, and since then more than 4,500 female high school and medical students participated in the groups outreach programs. >>> the kind of police chase you could expect in texas, and the officer uses his patrol car to round up this way word cow, and successfully gets him in an gated area, but then the cow charged at him, and the cow, we are told, is still on the run this morning. >>> still to come, a new video surfacing about a mass burglary. suspects running through the lobby of t lobby a hotel. >>> and then a >>> good morning. we are starting this half hour with a look at the weather. >> good morning to you. if you are an

me, kaiser faly foundation.sing a 60-year-old person who's currently eligible for the american -- the aca tax credits, the obamacare tax credit and found that they would lose $8,000. so if this person has $8700 less money, less in tax credits but they have more choices of things to buy, how are they better off? >> one of the things that they're going to be better off is more competition in the market. >> even though they have less money to buy? even though they have less money to purchase them? >> even the cbo score told you that the premiums were going to be decreasing. so yeah, they'll be able to buy more with less because we're going to increase the competition. we're going to increase choices so that health care costs come down. >> so my producers, if you could put up the information on premiums because we actually looked at what the cbo said about what would happen with premiums. actually this is premiums under the affordable care act, sorry. but the cbo looked at you guys' plan and found that premiums woul

. >> reporter: larry levitt is with the kaiser family foundation. >> so far these plans would likely significant reductions in the number of people insured. >> reporter: the vice president made the opposite case today. >> no one is going to fall through the cracks in this. >> reporter: and republicans argue that a simpler plan with fewer government mandates will unleash competition. >> the principles are good principles. they're the right ones. >> reporter: one big question -- what would republicans do about medicaid? obamacare expanded it by 11 million americans at a cost of a trillion dollars. south carolina's lindsey graham. >> if we repackage obamacare and call it something else, we haven't succeeded. >>> vice president mike pence is denying reports that the commando raid in yemen turned up that raid played a central role in the president's congressional address. david martin reports. >> reporter: rarely has someone struggled so hard and so publicly to keep it together as carryn owens, widow of navy s.e.a.l. ryan owens. for one minute and 38 seconds, one of the longest standing o

their plan,ing to kaiser, would increase those deductibles. joining me now, senate orr bernie sanders of vermont. senator, let's start on deductibles. this has been a genuine critique of the plans offered on the exchanges, that they have been high deductible plans and also apparently something this bill would exacerbate. >> chris, i think it's probably wrong to refer to this legislation as a health care plan. its primary purpose is to give some $300 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2%. it's a tax plan to help the very wealthy and the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies with huge tax breaks. in terms of the essence of their so-called plan, they're going to throw 20 million people off of insurance, defund planned parenthood and according to the aarp if you are 64 years of age trying to get by on $25,000 a year, your health care costs are going to go up from $1700 today to $13,000. as you just indicated, as difficult as the deductible situation is now -- and it is a real problem for millions of people -- this plan makes it even

over in kaiser health news in arkansas, largest u.s. health insurer pulls out of health exchanges in georgia and arkansas. from "the washington post," aetna chief executive says obamacare is in a death spiral. and from the courier tribune had north carolina, blue cross projects $400 million loss in a.c.a. in just two years. mr. speaker, while we could argue about whether we correctly identify the problem to begin with, while we can argue about whether or not we crafted the right solution to begin with, what's undisputed is that the affordable care act is failing and it is taking american families down with it. that's not just the newspapers talking, mr. speaker. i'll quote from former president barack obama. in august of last year. he says, despite this progress, he's talking about the progress of the a.c.a., too many americans still strain to pay for their physician visits and prescriptions. to cover their deductibles. or pay their monthly insurance bills. they struggle to navigate a complex sometimes bewildering system and they remain

according to the kaiser family foundation. earning $40,000 gets you about $10,000 in six disat $60,000, nothing. under the gop plan, $20,000 and $40,000 earners would only get $4,000 in tax credits. or $60 to 70% less. those earning up to 75,000 would now gain $4,000. but insurers would also be allowed to charge 60-year-olds five times higher rates than younger people. up from three times under obamacare. >> what happens when people can't afford insurance is the only people that tend to buy it are the sicker people. so this is not only going to cover fewer people but it won't be good for the others. >> the gop plan repeals the aca employer mandate to provide coverage. for companies like the one in north carolina, it is a mixed bag. the so-called cadillac tax is not repealed. just postponed to 2025. >> the cadillac tax has been a mythical creature that may or may not happen. i feel that we already made strides to reduce kind of the value of our plans. >> for now, they're planning to offer more high deductible plans no matter wh

julie rovner of kaiser health news joins us again. welcome back, julie. so remind us briefly how did medicaid work under the affordable care act? how does it work now? >> well, medicaid has always been thought of as the health insurance program for the poor, but you had to be more than poor to get on medicaid prior to the affordable care act. you had to be poor and a pregnant woman or child, poor and disabled, poor and elderly. if you were poor and none of those things, you were not eligible in many states. the affordable care act changed that. it said that all you had to be was poor, and you could get medicaid. originally it was a requirement. the supreme court struck that down and made it optional, and as you mention, 31 states have expanded medicaid to basically allow everyone who is poor. and that's under 138% of poverty, about 15,000 a year for an individual. >> woodruff: why is the republican leadership changing this? >> well, the republican leadership, the republican party has been agitating to really scale back medicaid for many, many years, reall

familyt the kaiser -- website, the smoking cessation program, also the other programs include wellness newsletters and jim membership. william in virginia, independent line. story andust a quick i'm not sure there is anything you can do about this. and we were in our 50's and my wife got laid off. she could not find another job. herhad cobra and paid health insurance for the 18 months, then we had to go to the same company, she filled out the application and we answered every question honestly. end result is they found out she was on a cpac machine and instantly her premium went to $1000 a month. what we stard complaining, the person online said if you had not been with us before, there's no way you would get insurance. right now, we are between out-of-pocket and her premium it is $2000 a month. that hits hard. i wonder if young people who constantly go to the doctor and thathings, i would suggest unless it is a dire emergency that you get nothing on your record. host: thank you for sharing that with us. i'm not sure if that was part of a wellness program or something else. these welln

later, julie rovner of kaiser health news will deep into the health care at later this morning on "washington journal." >> this weekend, c-span2's book tv is live from the tucson days of of books with 2 panels and author interviews. our coverage begins at noon with richard reeves and his book "infamy: the shocking story of the interment in world war world war ii." won the national book award with "stamped from the beginning." p.m., politics00 the immigration with the national magazine correspondent john nichols and his book "people get ready." columnistimes op-ed and a year of owning dangerously -- and the year of voting dangerously. and the book "my underground american dream." the book tv is live from the tucson festival of saturday afternoon and sunday at 1:00 p.m. on c-span2.

host: the kaiser health news website, khn doifering, and the reporting of mary agnes carey. thank you for your time. guest: thank you. >> house republican leader kvetch mccarthy and others met with president trump and vice president pence at the white house. they discussed progress on the health care law replacement. before going, leader mccarthy and the chairs talked to reporters on the -- on capitol hill. mr. mccarthy: good morning. i want to start off by thanking scharme kevin brady and chairman greg walden and the members of their committee. this is the first phase in a three-phase process. the energy and commerce committee marked up more than 27 hours, the ways and means committee, 18 hours. that's collective 45 hours of debate and deliberation. this is regular order. this is the committee and our members at work. just what the american people expected from their representatives. the work will continue next week under the leadership of chairwoman diane black in the budget committee. i want to put this work in perspective osmba macare is failing. -- obamacare is failing.

so the first thing that was paid by the county to these employees whether they have kaiser or blue shield, the city plan, was the 10 county amount. i was postponed or i think you could say deferred or not being utilized under this present collective bargaining arrangements. it may or may not be used in the future. so this number used to have incredible pertinence to how the final employee contribution was determined. but it is still used for early retirees and for post-65 retirees to its apartment number. the strength of this number is more from a well it's going up 7% and how are we going to end up in 2018 is yet to be seen so we have approximate what they are paying now and we will be able to prepare this as we go for especially in the may meeting and say, okay you presented the 10 county. as an action item you have to accept the 10 county will be at the end of this explanation of what we are doing and you can say, okay at 649, all of our numbers are less so we are doing excellent like kaiser right now i just pulled a premium of the website is $540 approximate. so this 10 county is more

mary agnes carey is with the kaiser health news. she is joining us now on washington journal. how radical or different is the plan being voted on today than the aca? >> one of the biggest changes would be how they fund the medicaid program. now it is an entitlement, a matched federal state program. they get a 57% match from the federal government. it would now change the republicans health care plan would change that to a set amount of money that states could then spend. they could take a per capita cap allotment, they could have block grants but the biggest change is that shift of about $880 billion in change from federal funding over the next decade. it takes it out of that entitlement status. that is one of the biggest changes. another is the tax credits. about that now. in the affordable care act the subsidies were based on income. and they were tied to not only your income but the cost of health care in your local area. so if that increases the house republican plan, really looks at age. there is an income threshold where the subsidies begin to taper down. that it tends t

in fayette county, west virginia, kaiser family foundation estimates the $4,000 tax credit that a 60-year-old making $30,000 a year will get under the american healthcare act is almost $8,000 less than they would get under obamacare. this is a county, by the way, that voted overwhelmingly for president trump. the point is this, you say that this will make it more affordable and access to coverage, under this plan in this county in this state, less money and more expensive for these folks. >> that's looking at it in a silo. if you look at it in the way that the market will allow them for individuals to have choices, who knows what that 60-year-old wants. i know the federal government doesn't know what the 60-year-old wants. i know that he or she knows what he or she wants and they'll provide decreasing costs and choices for folks you make it so the system can be responsive to that individual. that's the way you drive down costs. >> why not means test the tax credits? why do it by age where you may essentially have it where you're incentivizing folks not to buy health insurance until th

i want to point out it's not clear kaiser agrees on that. >> kaiser does agree with a 50-year-old int all. >> my district is probably one of the most diverse districts you can find. >> okay. >> it's not high income. >> okay. fair enough. >> we shall see. what's next. >> legislative process. the key to this is when we get health care fixed -- remember, we're not -- we don't want to compare ourselves to obamacare. we want something better. that has failed. there's a reason why we're at the place where we are. that's in this whole debate people forget that. if we did nothing, what would you end up with? medicaid is not sustainable. it's going to take every discretionary dollar you ask for, so you wipe out all of government. secondly this doesn't do anything with medicare, health care you have in business so the exchanges. the exchanges are on a spiral. that's not my words, that's the health care. that's not a study. that's what's actually happening today. i'd rather live in reality than what someone sits back -- >> no question a lot of this stuff is unraveling, we've seen big insurers s

let's look at a chart from the kaiser family foundation, a repeatable -- reputable organization. talk aboutlot of premiums since obamacare. let's take a walk let's take a little walk down memory lane and let's go back, in the first five years between 2000 and 2005. average premiums for a family in this country increased from $6,438 up to about $10,800, an increase of a little over $4000. in the five years between 2005 and 2010, average premiums for a family increased about $3000. years before the premium average annual for a family more than doubled, from $6,438 to $13,770. that is the 10 years before the aca. what has happened after the aca? according to the kaiser family foundation, in the five years between 2010 and 2015, these premiums increased from $13,770 to over $17,800. an increase of about $4000. since that time in the last couple years, there's been increases too. the fact of the matter is, if you look at the 10 years before the aca and the eight years since the aca, the premiums have gone up about the same rate as they did before the aca. so this myth out there that s

the current subsidies for someone in arizona who is 60 years old making $40,000, according to the kaiser family foundation. for some patients in this red state, the future of their health care is uncertain. katie beck, nbc news, mesa, arizona. >>> let's turn now to the heated moments in our nations capital. the marine corps top brass took incoming fire from senators over the nude photo scandal rocking the military and faced tough questions about how something so shocking could happen under their commend. nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols has details. >> reporter: tonight, the country's most powerful marines under fire on capitol hill. >> denigrating female marines who will give their life to this country in the way they have with no response from leadership. i can tell you your answers today are unsatisfactory. >> reporter: testifying why he didn't know about nude photos of female marines circulating online without their consent. the photos allegedly posted to a 30,000 member group, the marines united. they say roughly 500 members accessed the images. >> we haven't just fact w

host: unfortunately, mary agnes carey of kaiser is gone, she would have been the perfect person to have addressed that. someday on thet washington journal in the near future that will be addressed again. it has been addressed several times but i am sure it will be addressed again. stockton, massachusetts, independent line. >> how is it going? calling in from pittsburgh, that guy had a question and i have a question for married but unfortunately she is gone. i couldn't think of anything is to bring up, but my question was going to be, regarding the numbers of people that experienced price premium raises and raises and their premiums, how many of those people -- my question was going to be -- how many of those people were in states that did not accept the medicaid expansion versus states that did accept the expansion? are premiums rising for people in the state that did accept the medicaid expansion? my question was going to be that. that was what i was going to ask. host: how do you feel about the replacement bill being debated today? >> i am not really familiar with it. theoes seem like

then there was the successful 4-decade career at kaiser aluminum, retiring as the company's chairman. it was a part of life that was very good to cornell financially, and he has been good to others in return, which brings us to ucsf benioff children's hospital oakland and this latest chapter in cornell's life. you see, over the years, cornell has been very generous with his donations to the hospital. cornell: i'd say several hundred thousand dollars. garvin: so many thousands, in fact, in the 1980s the hospital ceo offered cornell a seat on the board of directors. cornell: and i said, "i'm gonna join ya." he said, "great!" but i said, "not as a director, but rather as a volunteer." garvin: turns out, for this part of cornell's life, this is not the type of chair he wanted to sit in. this one-- cornell: shh. garvin: doing this-- cornell: shh. garvin: for them. cornell: shh, i think you're gettin' sleepy. garvin: two days a week for the past 20 years, cornell has been coming to the neonatal intensive care unit at oakland children-- cornell: oh. garvin: volunteering to give premature an

. >> it doesn't require the owner of kaiser to live in oakland. >> last night's vote is going to need another council vote to receive final approval. >>> all right, let's talk about what's going on with our temperatures. you can see start with radar, actually. temperatures are up to 7 degrees cooler so make sure you grab something to stay warmer but you can see we have a healthy amount of wet weather, especially south of the san mateo bridge so let's take a look at what's going o happen. we're about 45, look at that, 49 in black hawk, 50 to 53 degrees in most inland east bay neighborhoods. the air is so unstable. you've got cold air on top of a warm air and that's what's leading to these storms. 52 to 55 degrees elsewhere. let's look at highs today. 59 at half moon bay, 61 to about 63 degrees from san francisco to our inland neighborhoods and you notice you see some green still hanging around during the afternoon hours. here's a look at san jose. this is 101 and 880, and on the road, they're going to be wet this morning. choppy on the water this morning, and an umbrella early, so ever

according to an analysis from the kaiser family foundation. on this map, you can see how a 40-year-old consumer fares across the country. the darker blue areas show increases in tax credits under the new plan, the darker orange show decreases. there are, though, a lot of unknowns. what are you hearing from businesses right now? are they nervous about things? are they excited about things? >> i think almost any client that we sit down with is asking what will be the future, what will be the impact. >> reporter: this man's company is an insurance broker for small businesses. he's watching developments carefully, but there's one thing he's not expecting. >> i think it's unrealistic to expect that costs are going to stay flat or go down. i really -- i don't see anything in these provisions that will make that happen. >> reporter: one interesting thing he is watching, whether for businesses buying health insurance, will that remains tax deductib deductible. that could affect a business's decision to keep offering insurance or let employees buy it o

another man, 43-year-old, was taken to kaiser hospital in antioch and is expected to survive. police haven't released a possible suspect yet. >>> a new poll conducted by the san francisco chamber of commerce shows approved the use of stun guns. the poll also found 60% have a favorable view of police. opponents say the question was framed to get the chamber the answer it wanted. the chamber supports the use of stun guns. opponents point to studs addy show it doesn't reduce police violence. >>> a massive fire ripped through the motel many were living in. firefighters helped 40 people escape from the travel inn on lincoln road east yet. everyone got out, including a man in a wheelchair. some tenants are claiming their units had no working smoke detector s. >> we were they ever woke up from a smoke detector. we don't have extinguishers. >> there was black smoke everywhere. i was banging on everybody's doors. i don't know if they had gotten out or not. >> again, thank goodness they all got out. the motel owner said the building had working smoke detectors and was in compliance with

mostly light to moderate shores from cross junction -- showers from cross junction north to han and kaiser and romney and cumberland and flint tone and pawpaw. all seeing the showers here and here it is just across i-85 in around the state line. north of winchester. right up into tigers how long and -- hagerstown and carlisle and green castle showing the showers and some of the -- seeing the showers and some of the sprinkles in northern freder few minutes. lots of clouds in town on the michael & son camera but quiet right now. and mild. 67 breezy too. we've got winds gusting over 30 miles an hour. helping to bring the warmer air here and you see them a moment ago the temperatures which are in the upper 60s in fredericksburg. it's 64 for easton and cambridge. in the 40s in cumberland with the rain and hagerstown. but the milder air is going to come your way in a little while and talking temperatures, these are the current air temperatures. in alaska, 43 below in battles and fairbanks 47 below. even parts of canada in the 30, 40 below range. this extends into north central canada. a lot of c

then mary agnes carey from kaiser health news discusses the latest on the house leadership's effort to pass the affordable care act's replacement. then in alabama congressman, member of the house freedom congress, talks about the gop health plan and why he is against it. be sure to watch and's "washington journal," beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. trumpcer: next, president talks about the house republican health care bill and is critical of the current affordable care t.

the nonprofit kaiser family foundation says the plans currently discussed would most likely lead to fewer people being insured than under obamacare. >>> recovery efforts are underway after deadly storms swept across the nation's midsection. more than two dozen tornadoes reported -- were reported from the south to the midwest. and if violent weather is blamed for at least five deaths. chattanooga, tennessee where the storms left a trail of damage. >> reporter: the storms stretched hundreds of miles. whipping through the south and parts of the east coast. hail slammed alabama, heavy rains flooded parts of ohio. strong winds blew the roof off this car dealership in north carolina. and toppled trees in tennessee. crushing this mobile home and injuring a young boy inside. parts of the midwest are still cleaning up after the storm system roared through the area tuesday night. more than 100 homes in perryville, missouri were damaged with many destroyed. from above you can see the scope of the damage in ottawa, illinois about 80 miles outside of chicago. in the small nearby village of naplate. do

. >> reporter: larry leavitt is with the kaiser family foundation, which has been studying the republican proposals. >> so far these plans would reductions in the number of people insured. >> reporter: the vice president made the opposite case today. >> no one is going to fall through the cracks in this. >> reporter: and republicans argue that a simpler plan with fewer government mandates will unleash competition. >> the principles are good principles. they're the right ones. >> reporter: one big question: what would republicans do about medicaid? obamacare expanded it by 11 million americans at a cost of a trillion dollars. south carolina's lindsey graham. >> if we repackage obamacare and call it something else, we haven't succeeded. >> reporter: and that is the big challenge for republican leaders. they have vowed to move away from obamacare, and yet, scott, they are promising that no one is going to fall through the cracks. it's awfully hard to do both. >> pelley: nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. some of the problems mr. trump promised to solve last night don't actually

in kaiser health news chief washington correspondent will also review the republican health care proposal. be sure to watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. nominate to trump's serve under attorney general jeff sessions visited capitol hill to testify before the senate judiciary committee. his confirmation hearing as about three hours and 30 minutes.

state democratic congresswoman on trump administration immigration policy and border security and kaiser health news will also review the health care proposal. join the discussion live wednesday morning. >> house republicans released their health care plan yesterday that repeals parts of the affordable care act. scaling back the federal role in health care and tomorrow we'll be live at the house ways and means committee as they make changes to the bill. both the ways and means committee and the energy and commerce committee share jurisdiction over the legislation. watch live markup coverage at 10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span3 and you can read the

the kaiser family foundation does a survey annually where they ask people what percentage of the u.s. budget do you think goes to foreign aid. last year was 25 or 26% with an average response the lowest it's been as 11%. if you just carve out that we spend on global health assistance, it is significantly less than 1% of the total budget. and so, although the majority of the funds that the united states invest around the world more than one in five probably seems like a big number but compared to the $4 trillion, it's not a big number so i think we don't have the luxury of choosing only one priority when we do live in the interconnected and independent world where the united states has the prerogative and more security responsibility to leverage the hard and soft power and that is what you're seeing here in the united states is such a robust defense from across the political spectrum and the u.s. development assistance because there is a broad-based understanding that not only do we not have the luxury to have the offending that we could invest in whether it is here at home and not be

kendra ann kaiser, how beautiful is this photo. those lights look gorgeous. she's from west virginia and took this stunning photo. to send us more photos like this and also christopher short he might be a meteorologist himself. looks how detail he is caption, now small flakes in page county. this was late last night. the roads at this point were just wet. send us your photo, we'll be sharing them all morning. >>> 4:21. so how much longer before this whole thing is out of here. >> meteorologist melissa nord is keeping an eye on the storm. we're going to be with you all morning. we have a big team just for you we will have >>> welcome back. wake up washington in extended coverage for the winter storm tracking through the area. we have seen over laths six hours or so really a transition in a lot of spots from snow over to sleet. it has been sleeting nonstop. in d. c. we have about a half inch to an inch of just pure sleet on top of a little bit of snow that fell earlier yesterday evening. here's the latest, scanning the sktr precipitation. it's a mixture of slee

the chinese developer kaiser group is holding a board meeting to publish its first and results in threeears. this is the final condition that the shenzhen-based developer needs to meet before applying to lift a two-year suspension in hong kong. they became the first and only chinese developer to fall for an overseas dos fall into overseas debt -- fall into overseas debt. and stocks could raise three quarters of $1 billion. yes bank is seeking about $650 million in the base offering, and could raise 100 million more for a so-called green shoe option. saidfter shareholders have goldman sachs and several other are taking steps to address pay gap inequality. our next guest says china risks stagnation, and bloomberg stephen engle is standing by. a bit of a gray morning for an economy growing more than 6% a year. that is right. it is on the mind of everybody here and the risks that are associated with this economy, and also the opportunity as we hit a patch of stability in the chinese economy. it wanted to ask about our next guest kicking off day to of the .orum he is the chairman of the prim

like kaiser has made these lightts -- like kaiser -- haiser has made these comments.nd communist party have been taking a very powerful prose -- approach to how they respond to the comments out of washington. clearly, this meeting between the two presidents in april is going to be key. what they want to do, the chinese, is to have some role as washington firms up their asia policy. let's see what we hear from atme minister -- premier li this press event. thene: do we get any sense last week of the political chess game going on behind the scenes? been a very has tightly orchestrated affair. what we haven't seen are any of the likely contenders coming and hogging the limelight. it is a very different pictures what we saw five years ago. you might remember in 2012, party secretary who is a very ambitious politician, seen as potentially a candidate for some of the top leadership here in china, he was dethroned fairly dramatically. the premier at the time made a comment about him. he was then purged from the party and got embroiled in this corruption scandal and was jailed

. >>> mary agnes carey covers all things health care for kaiser health news, khn.org. she's joining us on the phone in washington. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so walk us through some of the highlights of what house republicans are now working through. first, repealing the financial penalty for the insurance mandate. what does that mean? >> this is a requirement now in affordable care act that you have health insurance or pay a penalty unless you have an exemption for a particular reason, so what they're saying now is that you won't be -- you as an individual will not be charged a penalty if you don't enroll in health insurance. this has been something republicans have wante