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forbes also says health insurers are among the biggest remote employers, among them united health care, aetna, and humana. >> i have the next are probably 10 hours a week that i get to spend with my husband and son, and you cannot put a price tag on that. john: be careful of all the work from home scams out there. if they want money up front or promise you easy money such as thousands of dollars a week, it may be a ripoff. i am john metairie, abc 7 news. veronica: have you ever wanted to do the weather? if you have a budding meteorologist in your class, you can nominate with meteorologist eileen whelan and myself on "good morning washington." just go to whether kids@wjla.com to nominate them. here is what we are tracking, a big arctic last. it will come with this cold front that will cross the area later tonight into tomorrow morning. we will have highs tomorrow in the 40's, wind chills in the 30's coming your way so that skimpy coat will not work for tomorrow. your high temperature at four clock, cloud cover all the way through and maybe a spotty showers. tomorrow, sunshine, but look

suddenly you look at the financials, you start to look at the other names, health care stocks humana >> health care is a beast. >> united health care is another one, lifting everybody else with them as the financials are settling down a little bit, those are picking up i tell you what, i have never seen as much paper in the financials as i have over the last two or three trading days absolutely amazing how much paper we've seen in the options world. >> i shouldn't be spooked by this big decline in f.a.n.g. i bumped into criamer at the ne york stock exchange, those are the kinds of questions you have to ask yours, it's fairly scary. >> i think the reality of that is this. the people who own facebook, own apple, own -- you know, you go through the list of the names. i'm not just talking f.a.n.g you can expand it further. they're all the same folks if they're rolling out of some positions going into year end, maybe they're doing some of that if we see these 10% pullbacks, that's an opportunity. the only reason i don't like chips to buy them right this minute is, many of those names, micron is up, applied materials up 65% y

united health plan. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, you can raise that microphone slightly. just -- there you go, but do talk into it. thank you. >> michael terhare. i'm with optimal x under united health care, and i'll be speaking to you about the city plan and the programs that we have in place. i am a registered pharmacist. my role or title is clinical consultant. i've been a retail pharmacist, and i have been involved with the pbm industry, pharmacy ben fit manager for over 15 years or so. the first slide, we've got a couple of stratistics up there as you've kind of alluded to, you can heavy about this almost every other day. week nav ago, we heard president trump speak about it on national television. last night, on ktvu, there was a little segment about state suing pharma, so we know it's there. and here's some of the metrics str statistics: every 16 minutes, there can be a death due to overdose from these medications. it's very expensive: 78.5 billion. i think this was, if i'm not mistaken, 2013. most of the expenses are because the treatment is so expensive and going up. and 4.5 million americans, piage already alluded to that number. and here's a big number: the u.s. consumes 80% o

[sfx: mnemonic] >>> welcome back we have a market flash on united health care. rtha coombs has the details. bertha >> hey, kelly, we're getting an update from united health on their guidance, full-year guidance for 2017. more or less in line with what they said with their recent earnings they say now that earnings on an adjusted basis will approach $10 per share with revenues above $200 billion for the full year for the first time, ahead of their analyst meeting tomorrow, they're giving us 2018 guidance. and they are saying for 2018, they expect to see revenues about $223 billion to $225 billion. and adjusted earnings of 10.55 to 10.85 per share the lower end is lower than what we were looking for in terms of an analyst estimate. the street is looking for 10.82 on about $219 billion in revenue for next year. we're certainly going to get a lot more details tomorrow. that analyst meeting set to begin tomorrow morning at about 8:00 a.m back to you. >> the shares down 1%. bertha, thank you. >>> cyber monday, meantime, in full swing when almost all retailers are offer

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boeing, goldman sachs, 3, manm, united health care, home depot goldman is in there as well, made theiggest contribution for the dow in that 1,000 points since september 17th you can take a look here, it's all the high-priced stob ed stos 3m moved 147 points, united health grew, home depot, walmart, then you got boeing in there as well. apple has moved. the only thing that's not in the group, highest price, is goldman sachs which really hasn't done too much these six are over 60% of the dow move the good news, it's well diversified. see health care and industrials, retail, technology, that's why the market keeps going up here diversif diversified. what's the detractors? we've had stocks that have negatively impacted the dow. these tend to be the lower priced stocks. general electric below $20, that's a cheap stock overall see it's at had a terrible quarter. it's ochbnly impacted the dow 3 points merck, 55 on the downside, procter & gamble, only 24. i think you get the point. finally i want to take a point about tax cuts lot of people debate tax cuts influence the market take a look at

united health 2018 ahead of its analyst day today. the earnings growth up to 8.5% analysts say that's consistent with united health care's warning on itsrter earnings call about the impact of health insurance, tax, that's set to. >> yesterday former fortress hedge fund manager michael novogratz whol just started a crypto currency fund making this bold call about it >> bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018 easily it could. i think ethereum is getting close. could be triple as well. >> prince all walid -- jaime dimen said it's similar, a fraud. then people on the other side, there's an argument to make. people were talking about their book in different cases, but we should tell you we're going to be speaking to the c ceo much circle about the price of bitcoin and the rise of crypto currencies the company is a provider of peer to peer lending in that space station. >> what does that even mean? >> peer to peer lending in the bitcoin space? >> there's a whole lending phenomenon that's taking place among crypto currencies and that's what circle -- we'll talk more about it in a little bit. >> yeah. >> i read your little -- i was not

she was previously ceo of united health care. formerl replace the president.egal dispute over a failed $40 billion merger and a separate conflict with express scripts. in the u.k., regulators say that rupert murdoch breached broadcasting standards. spent of the hannity and tucker carlson programs for lack of impartiality. fox news ceased broadcasting in the u.k. in august, and surrendered its licensed ofcom last week. european investment bank are hiring a wave of traders from the u.s. rivals, firms such as barclays and deutsche bank are offering raises for as much as 30% and guaranteeing bonuses in some cases. the european banks are trying to regain market share after years of cutting costs. and that is your bloomberg business flash. taylor, thank you. now on to brexit at theresa may. struggles to get ahead of sexual harassment scandals rocking westminster. during her speech at the annual conference, she heralded the level of foreign level directors investments in the u.k.. tim ross joins us. story. the inside how is it going? >> we are going to get another ro

fourth quarter profits of the ailing power and gas unit the company second biggest after health care plunged forty percent. later this month siemens decides on up to six thousand job cuts in the division. germany's economy is on a long term role that's the conclusion of the government's economic advisory panel the so-called five stages in their annual report they forecast two percent g.d.p. growth this year and a slight increase to two point two percent next that promises a continuing tax bonanza the five say just say the government should use the extra cash to fund more education research and infrastructure improvement. the european commission wants the block's car makers to cut their fleets greenhouse gas emissions by a further thirty percent by twenty thirty in brussels this week a proposed drastic fines for companies which don't manage to throttle their emissions and during the same time frame the commission wants thirty percent of new registrations to be electric or alternative drive cars to encourage that it's putting up eight hundred million euros to expand car charging statio

after securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors say targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground from a job without the fear of. syria's main saudi backed opposition group has selected a new chief negotiator nasser hariri will lead the high negotiations committee in your own back talks in geneva next week he succeeds riyadh he job who resigned last week the group is insisting president bashar al assad leave office he really says everything is on the negotiating table in geneva. the troubled ministration is the size of keep open the palestinian diplomatic office in washington d.c. for now a week ago it said the office would be shot because palestinian leaders called for the international criminal court to prosecute israel for illegal settlements the us said that statement was a breach of its laws in response the p.

after securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are non existent. potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of. health care is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors say targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground. zero. just ahead of the program fair and distrust how some ranger refugees are reacting to a deal that could see them returned to me and mom. talking tough to end abuse france's president promises to tackle gender based violence. hello it's time for europe to get properly cold again a real taste of winter is returning every five cloud for ages this is heat and this side is still warm but that's a cold front so cold is coming south bringing some snow showers with it at first the british isles proper snow to the alpine heights and even higher ground in germany and of course austria and that's a position we end up at on sunday this is going to be snow or rain depending on height again behind drop down to single figures as day

securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because serious health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. health care is being used as a weapon of war in syria. hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground. zero. advocacy manager to syrian american medical society he says they've been using the tactic for some time but. it's. they after day it's more challenging because when we started fortifying the horse with. different ways like sandbags or building an additional war around the hospital then the regime and its allies started to use alternative we posed more destructive weapons like we witnessed uses of. bunker buster bombs it was used against the hospital in a few days ago hospital on the ground which is supposed to protect the health workers the patients this camp and it's over six meters of cement so we have to dig more and more on top of the five hospitals in different ways as we as we raised this issue and we have been talking about

there are limits to what even in the united states our health care capacity is our ability to provideantiviral medications, ventilator, respiratory support, all those, have their limits. i don't have direct numbers, and perhaps you do, on modeling today's therapeutic interventions and public health interventions on the population then. but it's clear even with our more moderate pandemics in the past few decades that we have much greater capacity to respond, and we would expect to respond more effectively to a 1918 like virus, but we could have one more transmissible and more severe. so that's what all this work across the spectrum, including universal vaccine or better vaccines are so critical. >> thank you. and ciro, one question i have even within the americas we see the disparity amongst many countries in america's. can you talk a little bit about the differences that you may see, let's say, in some of the more response countries? you don't have to name them, and the differences that may occur in terms of both prepare despite in particular in response, maybe you can use mexico is o

sits there with enough concentration of lives to change the system. >> correct. >> i think united health care -- i don't think there's a market that has more than a couple percent of patients and has to follow what medicare does. >> i'm going to invite you to come to rhode island and see these guys. >> i would love to. >> i look forward to that visit. >> thank you, chairman. senator casey? excuse me, i made a mistake. senator murkowski is here. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know i'm at the end of the dais and came in later but there is added benefit to being one of the later ones and having the full opportunity to not only hear most of your opening comments, sir, but to hear the questions and inquiries in your responses back. again, congratulations on your nomination. i will also be curious to hear your response to senator paul's inquiry regarding importation of drugs. certainly for those of us in alaska where our neighboring country is canada. many in my state wonder why we are not able to do more when it comes to safely importing. i too am curious to know what you might propose in that area

securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because serious health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors say targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground some of the job made out of there are. now protests spreading in pakistan after security forces launched an operation to clear a protest camp in the capital islamabad riot police moved in and threw tear gas canisters at the demonstrators who were supporters of a religious political party favorite occupying an intersection for three weeks ignoring the mounds to leave the area calling for the resignation of a minister who admitted a reference to the prophet muhammad in a bill private television channels were ordered off the air during the crackdown. is near the eastern city of lahore and tomorrow you're on the highway between lahore and islamabad tell us how are things now under control by the security forces. on the con

there with enough consolation of lives to change the system. >> correct. >> i think, you know, united health care, as big as it is, i don't think there's a market maybe that has more than a couple of percent of patients, it has to follow what medicare does. i would be so excited to work with you on-- >> i'm going to invite you to rhode island and see this. >> i would love to do that. >> and i look forward to that visit. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator whitehouse, mr. casey. >> mr. chairman, thank you. >> excuse me, senator murkowski is here and i failed to go to that side. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, i apologize. >> i know i'm at the end dias and came in later, but there's added benefit to being one of the later ones and having the full opportunity to not only hear most of your opening comments, sir, but to hear the questions and the inyearries and your responses, again, congratulations on your nomination. i will also be curious to hear your response to senator paul's inquiry, regarding i mportation of drugs. i think for those of us in alaska where our neighboring cou

after securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors say targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground some of the job without the zero. zimbabwe's former finance minister has appeared in court accused of corruption just a day after a new president was sworn in in days just jumbo was detained by the military during the takeover that forced president robert mugabe from office jumbos lawyer says his client needed hospital treatment after being beaten in custody court has ruled the military factions jury in the takeover legal well andrew symonds joins us now from harare andrew it's not just the finance minister. there are raft of cases court cases coming up. that's right this is the first full day of the new presidency and we're seeing a lot of action in the course of the weekend it has to be said as well first of all so l

securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because serious health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors are getting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground. zero. saturday is the international day for the elimination of violence against women rallies have been held in rome and paris where france's president announced a series of measures to tackle sexual violence and in baba reports from paris. really a big speech from the president on a topic that's a huge problem in france and beyond and many were mcallen said tackling gender based violence and discrimination would be his top priority over the next five years as he promised to get tough with. our situation up to now shows that something is not working in our country the shame that women experience a shame without reason since they are already victims the shame that should be experienced by the perpetrators of violence it

securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because serious health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a report of war in syria targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground. zero. two planes carrying much needed humanitarian aid have landed in yemen's capital yemen is ensuring the world's worst cholera epidemic and now doctors are warning of an outbreak of the potentially fatal the feria virus a unicef plane that arrived at san airport was carrying vaccines for the ferry but there's been no movement at the major port of her day that the saudi led military alliance had promised to reopen aid routes on thursday. argentina's president is vying to continue the search for missing submarine even as hopes fade for its forty four crew members on board the navy's confirmed there was an explosion near where the sub disappeared ten days ago then this one reports on the naval base in the city of mother plata. th

after securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors say targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going on the ground. zero. still to come. german chancellor angela merkel says no. to happen you government in place. because i'm going to. have time to go play golf yes. just how many president. hello and welcome back now so look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia you see these weather systems pushing through and a lot of cold air associated with it so there is snow across some of the stands snow up through the hindu kush couple that should be drawing up and temperatures recovering to fourteen degrees we've got the rest still have some showers on the southern side of the caspian sea but that seems to be disappearing now back. there drawing up to with temperatures of ten degrees you know this frontal system develop

civilians based food shortages and limited access to basic health care. the united nations as well as russia began dropping aid into the city in 2016, helping the 90,000 remaining inhabitants. ground repororts suggest much of the city has been devastated by years of fighting and airstrikes. prprior to the war, 300,000 peoe called the city home. anchor: in neighboring iraq, government forces have entered one of the last remaining territories in the country still held by i.s. fighters. it lies on the border with syria. sunnifrom the iraqi army, forces, and iranian-backed forces are participating in the offensive. u.s. president donald trump heads to asia this weekend as he begins a five-nation tour. his first stop will be this sunday in japan. is expected to encourage allies to put pressure on north korea to drop its nuclear ambitions. trade with the region will also be a major issue. reporter: 12 days to defend american interests abroad. where he isjapan scheduled to play golf, dine, and play pop music. dominating the agenda will be north korea. abe will be seeking r

health unite. it is in partnership with care first and also university of marylandç capital regional health. wheels, and it delivers prenatal care but also health screenings, education, referrals, vaccines, really bringing the care to people that may be challenged to get access to care, and especially for pregnant women it is important that they get care early in their pregnancy to have the best, you know, birth outcome possible. >> so how do these bus visits happen? who determinesç where the bus goes and when? >> it is really community-led so we work very close with many community organizations to see where there is a need, and the great thing aboutd mobile health unit is we can move to the need. so it is ever-changing, but really building credibility in the community and those partnerships are key. the march of dimes really believes in those partnerships. we bring the bus to areas that we feel have high need and have a lot of visits there, and then also work to refer permanent care and where will they get their care beyond just the bus. >> yeah, gabriela, this brings into question theç

after securing ourselves in a cave inside a mountain because health care system has been largely destroyed by six years of war preventive care units and health centers are nonexistent potentially fatal diseases are common because of a lack of vaccine. healthcare is being used as a weapon of war in syria doctors they targeting hospitals means denial of treatment and the only option to save lives is going in the ground. zero. libya's coast guard has recovered the bodies of thirty refugees who died when their boat sank off its north western coast on saturday one hundred forty five people are rescued and brought back to tripoli a coast guard spokesman told our desire that forty people are still missing. to america's now one hundred hours is gearing up for elections on sunday and public safety is one of the central issues of the campaign while the murder rate has dropped on jurist remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world but in the sanchez reports now from the capital to go. with every election there is hope and the hope for change is crucial in one of the world's most violent countries because his sandals will vote wit

afford it pay a larger share of the cost people who benefit from government subsidized health care are worried units hagler is partially blind as a result of a tumor that wasn't treated in time because she couldn't afford proper health care now she does have government help it's a matter of life. you know it's it's not a maybe it's now ok well we can wait we can't wait. people. here a patient. health care isn't what's driving these changes it's politics the few days left in the legislative calendar and after nearly ten months in office this may be donald trump's last hope of delivering tax reform and dismantling obamacare allowing him to keep a campaign promise can't really help it al-jazeera washington israel says it is prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia tonight against iran its military chief told an arabic online newspaper that it's ready to share intelligence with riyadh has been heightened tension between iran and saudi arabia in recent months but once called as a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says the two countries of mutual concerns on several fronts but i'm going to take

adverse drug reactions and they paid it in cash this action constitutes the largest health care settlement in united states history it was in their business plan because those three drugs in the years involved sold twenty five billion dollars worth of the drugs are marked up in the thousands of percent psychiatric and scientific ethics would cost a. side in exchange for profits no one went to jail and real people paid the price . printing words heard on his sleeve he just adored social situations he loved to sing from a very young leaves music was part of our life and part of what he he adored and what i miss most about brennan is kamen it always give me a hug their dad i've known him a hug i still think to this day he's going to walk to the door we were driving not too long ago nancy myself and other son hayden and i look in the backseat and he was sleeping and i went to look to see of brennan was there to start a habit if he was sleeping until i saw brennan walk out of this house he was very robotic. brennan where are you going it's ok mom i just gotta go put on his winter coat brennan it's hot ou

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ge will focus on three core units, aviation, power and health care while looking to exit the rest of its operations. one source tells the journal ge also plans to shed its majority stake in oil and gas operator baker hughes ge ceo john flannery is going to announce plans with investors. he'll sit down with cnbc at 9:30 a.m. eastern but there's a lot of focus on not only whether it's going to cut its dividend as a lot of analysts are looking for but also how it looks to refocus its energy in these three core areas when, of course, so much of ge was focused on building these diesel locomotives and light. >> really exiting the energy business is a big deal that was very expensive. keeping the baker hughes deal on track. so looking to back out of that just a general slim down and as you say, dividends will be a big question going through that meeting. let's get back to the markets. looking overseas, starting in asia overnight a little bit of weakness most notably in the nikkei. japan down 1.3%. it seems as if it's mostly continued pull back. the nikkei, remember, was up more than 20% in

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health care is a right of all people and end the asurdity of the united states being only country in guarantee health care for all people. >> the reality is that we all pay for our health care costs. there's no change in that. the only question really is how we pay for it. when you buy obamacare, you thought you were going to be paying around $9 billion. two years later they said it was $1.8 trillion. the reality is whether you have health insurance or not, the disproportionate burden of paying health care today lies on the backs of working americans, with higher taxes. so the truth is with or without the plan, someone's going to bay for it. and it's the same person. it is in fact the taxpayer. as you said it is their right to choose or not to choose to have health care, we want to make sure we've codified that and eliminate if you can't afford the premium or you don't want the premium, you that you actually have a benefit of not paying a penalty for not having something as opposed to buying something and not really wanting it. >> here's the problem. what you didn't deal with is the

health care. that's an important gain for health care in the united states, at least for those that have the affordable health care act. one of the figures that interested me was the one on medicaid expansion and who in fact has benefited from it. t appears that three in 10 nonelderly adults with substance abuse disorders nationwide get medicaid expansion. it's being used by the very people we are discussing here today. need to know from you, erhaps dr. wen, dr. alexander, what you think -- what you believe would occur if in fact those states that had medicaid expansion -- this is one of them, new jersey, governor christie's state is another, suppose that's no longer available, what would that do to the crisis under discussion here this afternoon? dr. wen: more people would die. because of medicaid expansion, 1.6 million people who have substance abuse disorders are now able to have access to treatment. prior to the a.c.a., 1/3 of the individual market plans did not cover substance abuse disorders. and for people who have the disease of addiction, there is no margin of error. if you are to take away th