sylvia burwell joined us yesterday in san francisco to talk about president obama's in medicine initiative is precision medicine? check this out. sylvia: a number of different things to forward this effort of making sure we can have medicine that is to the individual, treating to the individual. the first thing it will do is create a million person cohort or group of people that can be researched so we can understand the genetics, and so you have a base of people to understand different things for different types of diseases. the second thing the money will go for is to work on using cancer specifically and was able to see that here today, in terms of research going on and meeting a patient whose life was saved. cory: one of the main aspects of the program is to build a cohort, a database of medical information that includes genome sequences and the chemical makeup of one million anonymized volunteers. how do you keep this data safe from hackers? sylvia: privacy and security will be important. we are getting input from consumers as we design the database. making sure the information can be

cory: that was sylvia burwell, the secretary of health and human services. the precision medicine plan is in the budget proposed for 2016. congress will vote on the budget later this year. coming up, you may have thought it was ridiculous like i did, but amazon and drones coming soon, maybe? we'll talk about that next. cory: you're watching "bloomberg west," where we focus on innovation, technology and the future of business. i'm cory johnson. let's check on some bloomberg top headlines. what is house speaker john boehner doing on this congressional recess next week? he's going to israel. the trip comes on the heels of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's reelection. four weeks after netanyahu spoke to congress on boehner's invitation. the house speaker last visited israel in 2008. ukraine's fragile 6-week ceasefire could be in jeopardy. pro-russian rebels saying they're preparing another offensive to defend their territory. at the eu summit, eu leaders vowed to keep sanctions against russia, at least for the rest of the year, due to its involvement i

don beyer will also be there along with sylvia burwell and lots of people affected by the law. >>> marylandnor larry hogan's plan to increase the number of charter schools in the state could be in jeopardy. the "washington post" reports state senators are planning to strike down key provisions in the bill. hogan's plan would have given charter school leaders the power to hire and fire set admissions criteria and get more public funding. state and house leaders are working on their own separate plans. >>> all the teams from our area that you were rooting for no longer playing in the madness this month. >> upset losses by georgetown virginia and maryland this weekend mean a lot of you you were hoping for a decent bracket, whatever that means that the point. maryland posted a thank you to its seniors on facebook. that has more than 4,000 likes right now. >> and news 4 sports reporter carol maloney shows us how they're reacting in the locker room. >> reporter: the road ends here for the maryland terrapins. but it wasn't the game that had the guys in tears affidavits. it was the good-bye. >> i h

. >> sylvia burwell acknowledged that the obama administration doesn't have a backup plan. >> we don't have an administrative action that we believe can undo the damage. >> they suggest that context is key in the subsidy language not just the literal text, the very short phrase in the very big health care law. a decision is expected sometime before july. karen travers, channel 6 "action news." >>> there is more ahead on "action news" at 12:30. in texas a mother and her two-year-old were trapped inside and hear from the good samaritan stopped to help. >>> it's called free range parenting, this couple is facing charges for letting their children walk alone. >>> and a drug that the fda says is now being overused and therefore unsafe. woman: i was tired of my chronic constipation and the way it made me feel the discomfort the bloating the straining. i'd just felt this way for too long. so i finally talked to my doctor about my symptoms. i'd tried laxatives before. he prescribed amitiza (lubiprostone) for my chronic constipation. it works differently than laxatives. man: amitiza is clinical

health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell, says 16.4 million people gained insurance coverage due to the affordable health care laws. the latest estimates, as the white house prepares to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the law's signing on march 23. that's a look at the top stories we are following at this hour. israeli voters head to the polls on tuesday. the opposition zionist union party is poised to upset prime minister benjamin netanyahu. my middle east editor joins me on the phone now from tel aviv. the prime minister's hardy is running second and the polls going into tomorrow's vote will stop what is he doing to turn things around? >> he's doing everything he can. he spoke at a rally late last night along with other parties, trying to rally the cause to say yes, there's a chance they may lose this vote, but they will close the gap. he's also talking about international conspiracies, how millions of dollars in funding has been bundled -- has been funneled from scandinavia and the united states. anyone trying to usher in a left of center government that would make co

don beyer will also be there along with sylvia burwell. other people affected by the law. >>> your tap water may smell and taste a little funny starting today. the reason is the washington aquaduct is switching over to chlorine for its ablennual disinfection period. the disinfection effort will last until heymay. if you're worried, you can use a water filter or let the tap run for a couple of minutes before you drink it. >> mayor bowser expected to announce new early childhood education initiatives this morning. bow are are is he office says the new program is neighborhood based and will ensure more children and families in d.c. receive more comprehensive child development services. today's announcement is part of the run up to bowser's first state of the district address next tuesday. the theme of that speech will be creating quote pathway to the middle class. >>> today kids from all over the united states will be here for the white house science fair. this is the 50th year that this is happening. and you can watch it streaming online all

because you've got to remember that last week sylvia burwell of obama care, she doesn't have any solutions so what are your solutions? >> the administration says they have no plan b and they're basically burying their head in the sand. what republicans are ready to do is protect the people, but not protect this law. we want to do it by setting up a temporary transition for people who are currently setting up subsidies and get them off of obama care ux and getting better insurance in their home state where is they have much more flexibility where there's more freedom, more choice then the states can decide whether the individual mandate applies or not, the employer mandate applies or not. >> we will see how the supreme court rules, thank you so much senator, great to see you. >> thanks for having me, gretchen. >>> back to the e-mails of then secretary of state hillary clinton, one of the big things coming out is that clinton set up and ran the e-mail server from her own home in the state of new york. morgan wright is a cyber security analyst and the founder of safe life, and ronald kaufman

i want to thank sylvia burwell our outstanding head of health and human services. we've got some wonderful members of congress here today who helped make this happen. and i want to offer a heartfelt thanks to all of the top medical professionals who are here today. we've got hospital leaders. we've got health care ceo's, doctors, patients, advocates consumer groups, democrats and republicans. we've all come together to spend time and effort to make the affordable care act and america's health care system work even better. make the affordable care act even better. with one big goal, to continue to improve the cost and quality of health care in america. you've already taken steps on your own. the american cancer society is committed to teaching its members about how new patient centered approaches can improve cancer care. a doctor that is here set a goal of having 80% of the citizens of delaware received care from new payment and delivery models than five years. a doctor from grand junction colorado, is using a new model that allows patients to have access 24/7. i do

sylvia burwell underlined the importance of subsidies for people in states using the federal exchange. subsidies that could be withdrawn if the supreme court rules against the obama administration in a pending case. administration officials suggest more than seven million people would lose subsidies making insurance uneap -- unaffordable. the plaintiffs contend that the affordable care act does not allow subsidies in the federal exchange. in florida 1.6 million people have selected or been automatically reenrolled in health plans the largest enrollment of any state in the federal exchange. and 1.5 million of them qualified for subsidies in the form of tax credits which average about $300 a month. in texas 1.2 million people selected were reenrolled in health plans and one million of them qualified for finance assistance averaging $239 a month. in north carolina, 560,000 people selected health plans in the federal marketplace and -- i'm sorry 515,000 qualified for subsidies averaging about $300 a month. mr. president, a lot rides on what the supreme court does. one of the things riding

acting solicitor general of the obama administration and health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. this is about 45 minutes. >> high, my name is pam hearst and i'm here with my husband doug. we are here today on behalf of all the plaintiffs in king versus burwell. decisions made here in washington directly affect middle-class families like ours. we believe it's time that those who have been hurt by washington take a stand. that's why doug joined the case. we never imagined we would end up at the supreme court. but that just shows you how important this case is not just for us, but for others around the country who are affected by obamacare. there are millions of americans who have lost their plans or their doctors or who, like doug and i, are forced by the internal revenue service to either buy insurance we don't want or face a tax penalty. we want americans to have options. we believe there is a better way to take care of people who need help. but there is no reason to force millions of us to pay tax penalties if we don't join a government program. we elect our state and national

as health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell said in a letter to congress this week.now of no administrative actions that could and, therefore, we have no plans that would undue the massive damage to our health care system that would be caused by an adverse decision. what does that damage look like? according to a study by the rand corporation, 9.6 million would lose their insurance in states with federal exchanges and premiums in those states would increase by 47%. still with me is congressman gregory meeks and is joined by a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. akeel amar and amy goodman, host and executive producer of "democracy now." congressman meeks, i'm going to start with you. what did you all mean when you said the states? >> we meant everyone. every citizen who is eligible in the united states should be eligible for the tax credit. that is clear. and i think that the language is clear that's the only way the courts could rule. there's no way we were just leaving it up to the states. we know just based upon politics that some of the governors of the stat

that is according to health and human services secretary sylvia buchlt burwell, the largest reductioninority leader nancy pelosi are on the verge of fixing the formula for reimbursing physicians for medicare patients as well as extending the children's health care program for another two years. john boehner and nancy pelosi actually working together on health care. this could be a big moment. but looming just over the horizon, the supreme court could once again change health care in america. here to talk about the stakes are jonathan kohn and in seattle, 16-year-old health care activist marcelas owens who stood by the president's side when he signed obamacare into law five years ago tomorrow. jonathan, i'm going to start with you. tell us what this week's announcement on the uninsured means and whether it matches up with the expectations set back in 2010. >> sure. well it's a huge development. if you think about -- look back in time to the 1960s after the creation of medicare and medicaid, the number of americans without health insurance pretty steadily grew over time. basically more

health and human services secretary sylvia mathews burwell told us that the administration has no administrativet would do in the event of an unfavorable decision by the supreme court. in fact, the administration declined to warn americans enrolling this year on what could happen if the supreme court found that the administration was illegally providing subsidies. mr. president, clearly the millions of americans who could lose their health care premium subsidy thanks to the administration's abuse of its authority need a solution. republicans have been working on solutions. the junior senator from nebraska has put forward a plan to use the 1985 cobra law to extend temporary health care assistance to these americans for 18 months. other republicans -- senator hatch from utah, senator alexander from tennessee senator barrasso have offered their plan to provide temporary effective assistance to americans while they recover the loss of the subsidies. the chairman of the house ways and means energy and commerce and education and the workforce committees released a road map for replacing obamacare with