and we actually have the actuary from united health care whose job is to build these numbers to answer any questions that we'd like to pose to united health care. with that i'll stop and say would you like me to call their actuary up or ask questions directly to me or --. >> commissioner breslin. >> so you're saying it's $218 per member, per month. >> yeah. >> this is added on to each person's premium. >> it's part of the premium build. >> last year the city premium plan for medicare retiree --. >> $280 and change. >> so $218 of that would be --. >> on top of -- no, embedded in that was the 171, so 171, we had a stablization reduction last year so there was --. >> be like three-quarter, over half your premium. >> we had excess cash so we brought the premium down to the 280. >> i think you are not hearing her question. it's the proportion of this cost for the premium that's being charged. last year the rate was whatever the rate was. >> (inaudible). >> and the amount being paid was $170, so you are saying in effect that $170 last year of the $280 was attributable. >> to drugs, yes. >> a

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help of obamacare is now in question as united health exits a large portion of the marketplace, prompting more concern about the sustainability of the affordable carect. we have a check up on the president's signature. >> health insurance costs will rise again. >> too many sick people. that means costs go up. that's why we are seeing united pull out and seeing $650 million in lawsuits. that's why we are going to see rate hikes this fall. >> reporter: losing hundreds of millions of dollars annually offering obamacare plans, united health care, the nation's largest insurer is scaling back involvement in the government health exchange. in total, they have lost billions in obamacare. to adjust, experts say insurance companies will raise premiums again for 2017, as they have in previous years. one analyst says the obamacare market is developing. insurance companies will make money and premium wills stabilize. if not -- >> eventually, they can only stay in a marketplace so long and afford to take so much loss. we don't think the time has come where most of them will start exiting. >> reporter: another writes, quote, obamacare is not about the insurance c

why are united health care and humana getting out of arizona? they both said they lost money from obamacare plans. they are getting out of there. why is bill gates a top target for al qaeda? catherine herridge is standing by to go "on the record." what is going on on college campuses? a display to honor police vandalized and one student take a stand against those vandals. that's coming up. >>> this is a fox news alert. al qaeda calling on jihadis to assistant american business leaders. the newest edition of al qaeda's english language magazine even naming microsoft founder and billionaire bill gates as a target. catherine herridge is here. what is this call for assassinations? >> well, right. this is sort of the new flavor of terrorism for al qaeda and also for isis. these kill lists. in this particular issue of "inspire" sort of a lifestyle magazine for al qaeda followers, it gives step-by-step instructions for leaders bombs that use magnets to adhere to the base of cars. and then also door trap bombs. it's pretty specific. and it's also about

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health care law. this health care law has made health care worse across the united states of america. we know that some insurance companies are dropping states entirely in terms of a place to do business. so millions of americans are going to lose their insurance plan even again next year. remember what the president said? if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. well, not next year, not last year, not the year before that. even the kaiser family foundation, who studies these things, says that there are more than 650 counties where families will have only one choice for insurance next year. now, mr. president, i just pulled up an article from "the new york times." that's not the only place there has been a similar article. this is monday. this is monday's paper, may 16, "wall street journal," "health insurers quit rural exchanges." just abandoning rural areas all across the country. my home state of wyoming, but it's happening everywhere. entire states: alaska, alabama, wyoming. there's only one choice where people can buy obamacare insurance next year. often if you only have on

united health care motion it's a benefit plan employer groups can purchase and it includes a fitnesshose -- that benefit plan is tied to participation in walking. so you can earn money into health savings account by merely walking at work. 10,000 steps a day and 3,000 steps in 307 minutes and employees can earn up to 1460 per year into hsa account by tracking on activity tracker. it's a great program. it also helps employer keep lower premiums. so it's a really win, win situation for employer as well as employee. we're happy to do that. >> in the last couple years we've seen the fitness tck them and there's like different brands and different companies coming out with these and so did you guys feel like this was something had you to to jump on board with. >> we d we do a lot in wellness arena my job is fully dedicated to helping employees live healthier lives and the fitness track rerz good at tracking activity and track how sedentaryy you are. >> how much works goes into it if it requires too much work i'm on the lazy side. >> i hear you. >> less is better for me. >> yeah, simple. t

we know united health care is leaving all but a handful of states. in colorado 20,000 people have gotten letters saying that they're losing their insurance plan next year because companies cannot afford to sell it. and it's only going to get worse. according to a recent survey by mckenzie and company, turns out that only one out of every four health insurance companies made a profit last year. those are the ones i'm talking about specifically selling insurance on the obamacare exchange. so one out of four made a profit. three out of four lost money. and you say how is it that they were able to make a profit? well, this is what they did. the ones that were able to make a profit tended to be the companies that have a lot of experience offering medicaid insurance which basically they took their medicaid plans and sold them to people on the obamacare exchange. now these are plans with very narrow networks of doctors. you can't just go to any doctor you like. very narrow numbers of hospitals so you can't go to any hospital you like. and for these specific

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oflth care is partly because the politics in the united states. we think healthe has a quite good value. actually there is a lot going on in terms of opportunities to attack new disease areas that they have not been in to do before, like oncology. that looks attractive. we know prices are under pressure and that is going to continue the u.s. is going to play that game. if you have innovative drug and provide new therapy, that will become something the markets are prepared to pay for. mark: stay with us. we will come back and talk about more of your top picks. more from mark. he says investors should focus on the stability of earnings. we will talk equities, volatility and top picks next. stay with us. ♪ mark: i want to bring you our chart. it tracks u.s. equity volatility is climbed 25% from its april low. ahead of indices of other asset classes. crude oil much lower than other peak levels. the average is the highest since 2011. the timing of fed interest rate increases. let's get more from this from our guest. he says it bloom and bust has been replaced by bubbl

va's the largest integrated health care system in the united states. over 1,200 health care facilities from large medical centers all the way to outpatient clinics. over 350,000 employees. 25,000 physicians. the largest employer of nurses in the country. affiliations with over 1,800 academic institutions. and more. a single electronic health record across the entire enterprise. a lifetime relationship with 9 million patients. a psychosocial support for homeless patients. integrated mental health care. an organic pharmacy system. organic geriatric care. besides health care va is veterans services for career transition support, education services, vocational rehabilitation, fiduciary services, pension resources, disability compensation, home loan guarantees, insurance, and much, much more. in the private sector if va's budget were its revenue, in private sector va would be fortune six, the sixth largest company in the country. the point is this -- the failure that manifested itself in mid-2014 was a crisis, but it was also an opportunity, an opportunity f

health conditions. hager says the laws have stopped numerical limits and high copays. >> another incentives take place of that. >> the unit analyzed data from the department of health care. since 2001 nearly 2100 consumers asked the state for an independent medical review of mental health decisions based on medical necessa medical necessities. >> what it tells me is that our medical review process is working. >> shelly says the processer has a check on the health plans. >> it is not right on the plan to deny them medically necessary care. >> what is it going to take for health care to do the right thing? >> it is going to take a lot of over sight. >> dave jones supervises health insures. the department of insurance also runs an independent medical review, data of 2011 shows the department over turned 53% of mental health denials. >> that does not mean health insurance won't continue to deny treatments. >> they're not strong enough. >> south bay senator has introduced a number of failed bills to beef up california's parody law. right now it is unclear just how many people are being denied coverage and argues that of complaints does not work for anyone. >> that's wrong. >

that's because health care costs plummet just one year after stopping smoking new research from the university of california san francisco says just a 10% decrease in smoking in the unitedion. >>> and this is a totally different take on obesity. it may not take years off your life after all. it found that overall healthier living and medicine has erased the risk of dying early for overweight people. but both the danish scientists and u.s. experts note that a longer life may not be a better life especially if one is overweight. >>> and friday at 6 become and august are the angriest time for american drivers. research hes looked at thousands of posts with the hash tag road rage. late friday afternoons in august were the most tense, perhaps due to a combination of humidity, traffic and possibly alcohol. the survey found hawaii was the state with the most road rage followed by california, los angeles had the most rage of any city with new york second. from the nasdaq, i'm jane king. here's to your health. >>> abc 7 news at 4 does continue. ♪ a little music to soothe the soul. the loud classical music blaring from speakers outside a bay area burger king. >> kristen is here w

affordable care act, firmly that this is the step we need today take in order to expand health care in these united states to at least 80 million more people. having said that, if we had universal health care and universal access was to inferior and discriminatory care you would still end up with disparity that is i'm describing in this book. access has been the focus for the past 25 years, the first generation of documenting health disparities and understanding the extent of those health disparities, that's the work that had to go before so that all of the statistics i quoted about cancer disparities, diabetes disparities and death rate for infants, their copious. we thought that once we described the problem and got people access to health care it would change these disparities and inequalities, it has not. 80% of the disparity measures for health quality haven't moved in 25 years, right, so pardon me, but some of my best friends are conservatives, but conservatives like to point thoth fact that we are narrowing the life expectancy gap, right, it's still the case if you're a black man you're goin

medically necessary. >> tonight at 11:00, the investigative unit takes this family's struggle to the regulator in charge of protecting health care rights. we reveal how often the state finds health plans and insurers are improperly denying coverage for mental health services. if you have a tip for our investigative unit or that one, give us a call at 888-996-tips. >>> there's a lot more bikes in the office today. it's bike to work day. >> mayors on bikes should be a fairly common site. bay area bike share will offer free rides today and for that you do have to register on their website. >>> so we have an excuse -- well, you have a particular excuse why we didn't bike to work today because you don't have a tandem bike because we go to work at like 3:00 in the morning. >> i have seen people out there at 3:00 in the morning. >> it's so dangerous because it's completely dark outside unless you have a major headlight or something on the front of your bike. >> at least it's nice and cool for those folks riding to work. >> yes. it's beautiful out there and our skies are clear. a great day to get out on the bike or walk to work or take

health care and retirement savings. it's within the power of congress to pull them back. the united mine workers of america's health care and pension plans cover some 100,000 mine workers, about 7,000 of them living in my state, mostly in southeast ohio. the plans were almost completely funded before the financial collapse in 2008, but the industry and its pension funds were devastated by the recession. the plan has too few assets, too few employers and too few union workers now paying in. if congress fails to act, thousands of retired miners would lose their health care this year, and the entire plan could fail as early as next year. this would be devastating for retired mine workers like my constituent norm skinner. i met norm in march before a finance committee hearing on pension plans that are under threat. norm is a veteran. he started working as a miner for what became peabody coal in 1973. he worked for 22 years and retired in 1994. for every one of those years, he earned and he contributed to his retiree health care plan and his pension plan. since he retired, norm has had n

attorney's office there has a health care fraud unit and they are closely looked at -- and they closelyd at the pharma industries in the past. the relationship between the charities and pharma companies, it's pretty clear these charities are allowed to dole out money from pharma companies to patients. what is not allowed to happen, drug companies cannot be exerting sway over the charities. charities cannot be favoring patients from donor companies over patients from companies that don't donate to these companies. it's pretty clear that's probably what they are looking into. shery: which drugmakers are we talking about right now being targeted? ben: the ones that have disclosed recently have been gilead, biogen, and jazz pharmaceuticals. the first one that really came the end ofeant at last year, with the first indication that this probe is going on. david: remind us why companies do this. there could be altruistic motives here, but there is certainly more to it than that. these companies are giving tens of hundreds of millions of dollars to these charities, and it helps these charities

is the largest integrated health care system in the united states. house and 200 health care for's -- over 1200 health care facilities all the way to outpatient clinics. , 25,000,000 employees physicians, the largest employer of nurses in the country. 1800iations with over academic institutions and more. a single electronic health record across the entire enterprise, a lifetime relationship with 9 million patients, a psychosocial report for homeless patients, ,ntegrated mental health care and organic pharmacy system, organic geriatric care. besides health care, va is a veterans resource for important nonmedical determinants of health. these are services like career transition support, education services, vocational rehabilitation, fiduciary services, pension resources, disability compensation, home loan guarantees, insurance and much more. vathe private sector, if the budget was its revenue, it would be fortune 6, the sixth largest company in the country. the point is this, the failure that manifested itself in mid-2014 was a crisis. but it was also

how does it happen that the united states is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right? the affordable care act has got some very important things, but we -- [no audio] [chanting "bernie!"] sen. sanders: ahhh! the sound system has reappeared. see, that is thinking big. you don't have it and is suddenly it is in right of you. but, the affordable care act has done some good things but we have got to do more. and what this campaign is about in all respects is making the american people understand what we have and should have as americans. every day, the media and establishment tells us, think small. well, you know what? i kind of think if people in the united kingdom, germany, scandinavia, holland, canada can have health care as a right, you know what? i do think that the people of america are entitled to have help care. -- health care. and i want you to think big and think about this. when we pass a medicare for all islth care what it means anybody goes to the doctor there are when they have to go to the doctor. not worry about a deductible or a c

they want to have the united states join every other major country, and guarantee health care to all people as a right. they want to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and create 13 million jobs. and the people of west virginia, and the people of kentucky, and the people of oregon, understand that in the year 2016, we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. at a time of massive income and wealth inequality where the top 10 of 1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%, the people of oregon, the people of oregon, and kentucky, and west virginia, know, that it is high time for the wealthy and large corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. with our victory tonight in west virginia, we have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states. and let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination. we are going to fight for every last vote in oregon, kentucky, california, and the dakotas, now, we fully acknowledge, we are good in arithmatic, we are used to fighting up-hill climbs. we have been fighting up hill from the

sanders: they want to have the united states join every other major country and a guarantee health care for all people as a right. applause] they want to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and reate 13 million jobs. [cheers and applause] and the people of west virginia and the people of kentucky and the people of oregon understand that in the year 2016, we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. cheers and applause] and at a time of massive income and wealth inequality where the of 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, the people of oregon -- the people of oregon and kentucky and west virginia know that it is high time for the wealthy and large corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. cheers and applause] without victory tonight in west virginia, we have now won 19 ries and caucuses in states. cheers and applause] and let me be as clear as we can be, we are in the campaign to win the democratic nomination. cheers and applause] and we are going to fight for every last vote in oregon, kentucky, california, the dakotas. cheers and applaus

now there's evidence the third leading cause of death in the united states is due to mistakes made by doctors and other health careionals. those errors usually are not added to death certificates. >> we found that 250,000 patients in the united states alone die from medical care gone awry. >> reporter: medical mistakes include breakdowns in communication when patients are handed off from one doctor to another, unnecessary surgeries that lead to complications, and patients who are discharged without any guidance on what to do next. >> as a medical community, there's an increasing recognition that we should pay attention to this problem, measure it, and try to develop innovations and prevention strategies. >> reporter: there are a few things patients can do. take a supportive friend or family member to appointments. they can help remember nurses are saying. ask a lot of questions about medications, surgeries, and alternatives to therapy. patients don't have to rely on one physician's course of treatment. the experts say second opinions can be a good safety net. >>> air bags are supposed to protect you, but a lot of

that's the use of aggressive medical necessity evaluations, the investigative unit analyzed data from the department of health care which oversees health plans like blue shield. since 2001, nearly 2091 people asked for a review and the state's reviewers overturned nearly half of the denials and 56% of eating disorder cases alone. >> what it tells me is that our independent review process is working. >> the director says the process serves as a check on the health plan. >> frankly, it's not right for the plans to deny them medically necessary care. >> reporter: what's it going to take for health plans to do the right thing. >> a lot of oversight. >> we're being very aggressive and proactive. >> reporter: while they oversee health plans, the insurance commissioner supervises health insurers and both regulators conduct ongoing policy reviews to ensure compliance with parity laws. the department of insurance also runs an independent medical review. data since 2011 shows the department overturned 53% of mental health denials. >> that doesn't mean that the health insurers won't continue to deny people treatment but we'r

. >> at 11:00, the investigative unit takes the family struggle to the regulator in charge of protecting health care. how often they find they are improperly denying coverage for mental health services. if you have a tip, give us a call 888-996-tips. >>> coming up, going to make history again. the solar plane on a journey across the world makes another considerable take-off here. we'll show you what happens. ==laura/vo== the "solar impluse two" phoenix -- it took off at three this morning. the solar-powered airplane is now headed to >>> new video this morning. the solar 2. phoenix took off this morning. it is now headed to oklahoma. you may remember the plane taking off from moffett field last week. we covered that last week. it's on a historic trip around the world. its journey started and will nend dubai. >> it will take a couple of months to get there. >> where are we heading to today? >> yesterday we had airport delays at sfo because of the low clouds and fog. we'll watch out for that this morning. may want to call in and check ahead. we see the clouds. this is pretty much the way we started all

everyone keeps talking about a little bit of inflation coming back here in the united states, it's coming from the health care sector. the roll-off of the one-time price cut in the affordable care act. i like the way teva looks here on the charts. fundamentally, i like it as well. pete? >> well-run, good management. i'm not in it now. i'm in some of the bigger pharma names here. >> krispy kreme is set to be acquired by jab, $1.5 billion. doc, you saw some unusual activity in this name last week? >> we did, judge. it averages less than 300 calls traded per day. that was in the previous month, but kkd on tuesday last month, they bought over 3,200 of the calls. mainly at the 16 and 17 strikes. those calls go from like 25 cents to $2 or $3, like that. so somebody made a pile of money here on ten times normal volume. i would say it smells a little bad. >> all right. speaking of that, lending club? >> thinking of smelling that. >> do you think there's a hole in that story? >> you are our food correspondent. >> do you want me to weigh in on krispy kreme? >> do it. >> i don't know how fishy that activity is, maybe th

not be how many people we throw off of the affordable care act, the debate should be why in the united states not every man, woman and child gets health what the american people understand is that we are living with a rigged economy. look, here is the fact. if we were a poor nation and there are poor nations, if we were a poor nation we would have a certain type of discussion. but let us be clear, media won't talk about it but you understand it. this is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. there is no excuse for 47 million people living in poverty. there is no excuse for american workers work two or three jobs just to earn enough money to take care of their families. there is no excuse for women making 79 cents on the dollar. but this is what america is about today. it is a nation in which the top one tenth of one percent now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. 90%. does anybody think that has anything to do with justice or morality? i was in san francisco a couple of weeks ago and literally i could not believe it. there were people, i didn't know, honest to god if they were alive or dead they were lying out, sl

medically necessary. >> tonight at 11:00, the investigative unit takes the family struggle to the regulator in charge of protecting health care rights. we'll reveal how often the state finds health insurers are improperly denying coverage for mental health services. if you have a tip give us a call. >>> 5:25. food and drug administration is redefining what healthy means when it comes to food. >> current food guidelines are from the 90s 90s. in an evolving nutritional research, department will reevaluate regulations. >> we can make it easy and accessible for the consumer, the more it ends up doing some good. >> the fda has been under pressure from the public and from law makers to provide accurate and reliable nutritional information. the public will get a chance to add its voice into the discussion in the near future. >>> two people are dead and two crime scenes spanning several miles. the details from neighbors about one of the victims. >>> bob redell in pittsburgh. police looking for a person who shot and killed a pregnant mother of four as she was heading down a major freeway in the east bay. >>> i'm stephanie chuang live

the investigative unit analyzed data from the department of managed health care, that's the regulator blue shield. 2100 consumers asked for an independent medical review of decisions based on medical necessities. they overturned half the denials and 56% of eating disorder cases alone. >> what it tells me our independent medical review process is working. >> the process serves as a check on the health plans. >> frankly, it's not right for the plans to deny them medically necessary care. >> what's it going to take for health plans to do the right thing? >> it's going to take a lot of oversight. >> we're being aggressive and proactive. >> while she oversees health plans, insurance commissioner dave jones supervises health insurers. both regulators conduct ongoing policy reviews to ensure compliance with parity laws. like dmhc, the department of insurance runs an independent medical review. data since 2011 shows the department overturned 53% of mental health denials. >> that doesn't mean that the health insurers won't continue to deny people treatment. but we're doing everything we can wi

health care. >> yeah. >> because right now united health pulls out of anywhere they can't make money.ongress has been unable to adjust, they don't want to play. >> you can't do anything to deal with the aca except overthrow it i suppose. >> how about monsanto up only six? what does that tell you? >> well, it's 108 on a 122 deal on monsanto. it's over 15% discount, but it would take 9 to 12 months to get done, and then some questions still about what the response is going to be. but don't forget a lot of this would have been done in private for monsanto and bayer except for the fact that the monsanto executive said that stupid thing where he denied that there was anything going on, which was -- >> it was ill advised. >> yes. they had to come out and correct it publicly which put this in the public realm. guys, i did want to quickly get to a report here on tribune. >> yeah, what is the story there? >> and gannett, we've been following this for quite some time. yeah, give me the old animation. i feel better when i get that. this morning tribune rejects gannett but not without a lot of ba

bernie sanders came to speak to national nurses united, an organization committed to his election to the presidency. senator sanders has made universal health care for all a corner tone, something supported by the california nurses association and national nurses united, both politically powerful, well healed unions. >> you know that in order for you to do your jobs in the way you were trained and want to do your jobs, we need radical transformation of the american health care system. [ cheering ] >> reporter: for senator sappedders, winning california is an absolute must especially because on that same day, emergency emergency votes and reports its results before california's polls close. a new jersey victory could place clinton in a position where she locks up the nomination, but if she can't lock it up in new jersey, then california will become pivotal to any chance sanders might have to gain the nomination of the democratic party. >> we are going to take on the private insurance companies. we are going to take on the drug companies. the function of health care in a democratic civilized society is to provide quality care to allful our people

[ cheers and applause ] they want to have the united states join in every other major country and guarantee health care to all people as a right! they want to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create 30 million jobs! [ cheers and applause ] and the people of west virginia and the people of kentucky and the people of oregon understand that in the year 2016, we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. chaurz [ cheers and applause ] and at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, where the top 1/10 of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, the people of oregon, the people of oregon and kentucky and west virginia know that it is high time for the wealthy and large corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. with our victory tonight in west virginia, we have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states. and let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination! [ cheers and applause ] and we are going to fight for every last vote in oregon, kentucky, california, the dakotas. [ cheers and applause ] now, we fully

every other major country on earth, whether the united kingdom, france, germany, scandinavia, canada, every other major country guarantees health care to all of its people, as a right. the affordable care act has done some very good things, but we have a lot more to do. i believe, from the deepest part of my soul, that health care is a right, not a privilege. today, we have 29 million peoples with no insurance, and even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and every one of us is getting ripped off by the greed of the drug companies. [booing] sen. sanders: pharmaceutical charge us by far the highest for the medicine we need. by the way, on the ballot year in november in california, you are going to have a proposition making sure that california can control the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: i congratulate those people who put that item on the ballot. let's pass it. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: together, we will end the fact that we are the only major country without health care for all, that we pay far more per capita for health care than any oth

thedoes it happened that united states is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right? the affordable care act has got some -- done some very important [no audio] we -- [chanting "bernie! '] sanders: the sound system has reappeared. see, that is thinking big. we have got to do more about health care. what this campaign is about in all respects is making the american people understand what we have a hand should have as americans. every day, the media and establishment tells us, inc. small. -- tells us, think small. will you know what? canther countries -- canada , i think we can. i want you to think about this. all we pass a medicare for health care system, what it goes to thebody doctor when they have to go to the doctor. not worry about a deductible or copayment. and when we pass a medicare -four-all system, we will not continue to be ripped off i the drug companies who charge is the highest prices in the world. and when we pass a medicare for all system, it will mean that millions of people no longer have to stay on jobs they do not like simp

and weaken the health care apparatus of the united states. and i made the point then and i my friends that will back it up, we'll put more money in the n.i.h. this year, next fiscal year, than the president actually requested. now, in terms of zika, the moment there was a crisis, the chairman of this committee, hal rogers, immediately sent a letter to the president and said, spend all the money you need. there's -- they're in pots. so taking funds and using them in immediate crisis is not unusual. indeed, the administration itself has done this twice in recent months. once taking $500 million from an emergency response fund at the department of state and spending it on climate change instead of emergency response. $40 million in their own budget out of, quote, ebola money that they were going to spend on malaria money. i don't condemn them that, by the way. they say this will take several years. we want to deal with malaria right now. let's take some of that money. if we have a problem later we'll fix it. that's all that's going on here. at t

and timely care to their patients and the department of veterans affairs, the largest health care system in the united states should be using telehealth technology. the program is growing and ovided 2.1 million consultations to thousands of veterans in 2015, but we can do much more. in a report last year, the v.a. inspector general found that they missed opportunities to serve veterans which could have potentially delayed the need for long-term institutional care tore more than or approximately 59,000 additional veterans. the v.a. inspector general found that telehealth patients showed the best outcomes in terms of patient admissions and bed care and saved money. using telehealth instead of placing a veteran in a home care facility saved and the veteran stays at home. should follow models such as the university of new mexico's project called echo and medical centers to ensure patients in underserved communities get the care they need. the v.a. should increase its focus to improve clinical outcomes and reduce treatment costs. i urge members to support my amendment to prioritize funding to the v.a. tele

and we are proud to see those ideas are discussed and developed in the united states th the strong evers with health cared higher education system for all. i believe that in the u.s. advanced on these issues will crite new hope for all of those who believe in social justice and as we have read in the atlantic, obama likes to say, if anybody would like to say, we uld all be easy and trully enjoy communications not only easier but better and fiscal year for all. harning you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> around the white house, take a look. >> back here fee mouse, leaders arisk for the state dinner. soft guests have arrived and tweets that both musicians and tracy, the daughter of diana ross and some of the other ests, the chair of the u.s., and ashton cartier and susan collins. >> state din are. on the men, chicken and waffles and ven ison and double eggs and leaders nebraska and from five different leaders.