i thought that what united healthcare did was really good here. you could even get a third opinion sometimes. i thought kaiser and blue shield were short and blue shield seem to be really restrictive and kaiser seemed quite restrictive too. so maybe we can do some work on this. may be they can do better than they are doing and be more open about this. >> i agree with all of your comments. this is for a start. it does have to be part of the strategic plan. as we talked about engaging and supporting members and thinking about how do we do that as one, it may be through existing programs and in enhancing or changing and modifying or through partnerships with outside parties and making sure that those are all lined and providing the support we need for our members under that plan. >> president breslin: interesting, as i recall a report from best doctors, they didn't have any referrals on kaiser. >> they did have quite a few. we are pending, we were hoping we could have updated data for today but hasn't come in from best doctors yet. i think the way th

that is true for kaiser, united healthcare, as well as for blue shield members. notes that in blue shield, if you get your flu shot at a retail pharmacy, that is not covered under your benefits. we will have all that information of where to go and what is covered and what isn't covered so you can make sure you get your free flu shot. >> president breslin: thank you. any comments? >> as the infectious disease -- anyway. as an infectious disease member of the board, i think we can look at your presentation as excellent. and not get too far away from the strategic plan. and think how the strategic plan helps us in this regard. frankly, lab specimens drop off because we don't need to take them anymore. you know you have an epidemic going on. by subject members to the time, the discomfort and the cost, in terms of getting the confirmatory test. likewise, we should be maximizing geographical concerns so all of our members, no matter where they are from have access to flu vaccines as soon as it happens. thirdly, the responsiveness of health plans to the calls, i think i

>> i'm from united healthcare. after the august meeting, with the concerns raised about jewish home, we took that back to our organization and did some research on their license. there was some confusion there. i am happy to report that we have been negotiating with them. they have accepted our terms and we are in the contracting face of that. we are bringing in that work for future. >> vice president follansbee: excellent. >> also, towers, i was advised by my network team that they are also in the work as of june first, 2018. they are a contracted provider now. >> president breslin: excellent. very good. good work. >> vice president follansbee: thank you. >> president breslin: any public comment on this item? so was towers and before? or was it just something new? june 1st. ok. >> good afternoon. i am a retiree and representative of protect our benefits. i want to thank united healthcare for utilizing jewish home for the aging at the tower tower. and not to appear at terribly greedy, i am wondering about the progr

these represented jobs with united healthcare workers carries a sustainable living wage with quality benefits. i stand before you here today, urging you, the board of supervisors with the support of norman lee and a seven others, including the seven supervisors, to support this resolution and to stop kaiser from outsourcing these jobs before october 5th, 2018. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is stefani. i'm a respiratory care practitioner from kaiser santa rosa and i'm a proud uh w. sciu member, union member. i'm here to support the resolution by supervisor yee to protect our workers from outsourcing. many of those workers are from this very city. kaiser is operating on a not-for-profit guys and receives substantial tax incentives for such. last quarter, they made close to 4 billion in profits and has $29 billion in reserve. kaiser is bypassing all the formal processes that are labor partnership to expedite this outsourcing, to companies like uber and lyft question mark. as supervisor yee mentioned, inequality is mentioning. please protect our workers and join h

>> more than 520 employees are members of the united healthcare workers west, they are asking them to honor all of the obligations and keep the hospital open for the benefit of the entire community. the financial situation also impacts other hospitals, including saint louise and gilroy, daly city, and my speech. two more in southern california. >>> a construction worker was killed on the job in marin county, hit by fallen -- falling plywood, building a home on fehr drive west of 101 cup sky fox was over the scene around noon, a police car parked in front of the building site where construction stop for the day. one man te told us that he got to know the employees. >> they are so kind and nice, it hurts me, i have seen them three or four times a day, driving them that's driving in and out of the house, it became part of my life for over a year really.>> they are investigating the accident, late this afternoon, they put up tags prohibiting work from continuing for the time being. >>> a san mateo jury handed down a verdict in the case of the "gypsy hill killer", rodney halbower, finding

force people to buy plans, if you actually look at the media and healthcare expenditure of dolts, who are under the age of 65 in the united states, it is $700. $700 all healthcare expenditures out-of-pocket, basically all hospital visits, physician visits, all drugs, everything. the median is $700. the average plan on the affordable care act exchange has a premium of $4700. and a deductible that is also 1000 or more dollars, that is not even bad value, that is beyond.. there is a reason that people are fleeing these plans. and, it is sort of hurting finance, as a way of supporting finances, it really has not worked. and the notion that this is why we need to ban affordable plans outside of the exchanges, it is just doubling down on a failed strategy that had a lot of collateral damage. if you think about who is on the individual market, people are actually on the individual market for fairly short terms anyway. most people will go from one job to another, and use the individual market to bridge gaps between gems. so there is a sense in which people cycle through the individual market. it is not a long-term thing. and so i

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. >>> united healthcare is warning hospitals it may drop envision healthcare from its network in januaryn agreement before then envision is the largest provider of emergency room doctors. united health sent a letter to 250 hospitals on friday obtained by cnbc. it blamed envision's rates for driving up the coasts of healthcare overall a spokesperson for envision says the firm is negotiating in good faith and accused united of using misleading data and making egregious demands. emergency room doctors contract with health insurers separately from hospitals so if united drops envision doctors could be out of network for more than 1 million united members across the united states. >>> coming up, if you ever had a great idea for an app but you don't know how to write computer code, appian can help. no-code software, just sort of happens, i guess they help -- you remember the case stocks back in the '70s and '80s, computer engineering companies, this is like that but better the ceo will join us next. before we go to break, a quick check of what's happening in the european markets at&t provides

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united states. issues in education, healthcare, economic prosperity. every single issue antiporn issue that you can think of i think over the years we have discussed. and this month, later this month we start the celebration of hispanic heritage month. celebrating the contributions of latinos in industries including hospitality service, folks who work in the fields, folks who work as janitors, folks like my grandmother who was a housekeeper and made most of her life. but also the contributions of latinos in engineering, insights, as astronauts come in entertainment come in business, in law, and account for some of the fields. we also take a moment to think about the prosperous and vibrant latino communities in great cities like miami, new york and chicago, los angeles my hometown of san san antonio. some texans here. i like that. we know that those committees have been going for a long time but there are so many of the places where people don't often think of latino communities where they're going in fiber like you to committees and place like so lake

healthcare systems. administrative costs are much higher in the united states than other countries, according to a witness at our first hearing. administrative cost account for 8% of all healthcare spending in the u.s., roughly $264 billion, compared to only 1 to 3% for other countries. while many administrative tasks come from outside the federal government, such as insurance companies or state requirements, the federal government is clearly at fault for some of this burden. there was a lot of excitement over electronic healthcare records in washington dc. many said these systems would make it easier for doctors and patients to access records and share information with other doctors. since 2011, the federal government spent $38 million requiring doctors and hospitals to install electronic health record systems through the meaningful use program in medicare and medicaid. the federal government provided payment to buy those systems and created a specific requirement for how doctors must use the systems, penalizing doctors who didn't comply. unfortunately, those record systems have ended up being something

about some of the most important issues confronting hispanic mericans in the united states, issues in education, healthcare, conomic prosperity, every single tough issue and important issue that you can think of i hink over the years we have discussed here. this month later this month we his panic heritage -- ispanic heritage month of latinos in industry including hospitality, service, folks who fields, folks who work as janitors, fox like my who was a housekeeper and maid most of her live and also in engineering, science, astronauts, business, law, accounting and sole other fields. other fields and we take a moment to think about the prosperous communities in great like miami and new york and chicago, los angeles, my home town of san antonio. some toxstocks texans. but therebeen drawing are other people people don't think of latino communities growing in salt lake city, south carolina, iowa.ska, minnesota and sole other states electring theire first school board member or representative and so much more. this has been a very two years the latino community. i don't have to tell you why. but there are a lot

think it's really important that we continue to drill down on how we make sure everybody has healthcare in the united states of america. i had two questions particular to healthcare in our most rural areas. the first is really about maternal health care. in new hampshire, it's one of the things we struggle with especially in our north country which is about the top two thirds of our geography with about 50,000 people. in that larger space. according to the american college of obstetricians, while women have poor health outcomes and less access to care than urban women do. especially when it comes to women's health providers. this can be obviously a tremendous problem and it's just not feasible for many women to drive hours and hours on end for all of the frequent yet critical prenatal visits. we know how important that is. but if you have to drive hours and hours once a week and you are trying to work and raise a family you cannot do that. you also have to think about how to access this care when it's time to give birth. i'm interested to hear from you how can we help address this issue to ensure tha

rugged i'm randian path of privatized health care despite the fact that the united states has the highest rate of deaths to healthcare among comparable countries meaning deaths that could have been prevented with proper health care that hasn't stopped their health care industry from still worshipping the almighty dollar over there have a crowd of goats. has even more startled. numbers for you. a recent study by the moran company found that one in five hospitals in the us spike medication prices by at least seven hundred percent this means that if a hospital purchased his medication for the cost of one hundred fifty dollars that cost for the patient could be up to one thousand and fifty dollars in some instances that mark up was even higher one in twelve hospitals mark up the drugs over a thousand percent this is important as drug prices continue to rise president trump has already addressed the issue in may of this year trump released american patients first the plan to lower drug prices and reduce patient out of pocket costs american drug companies spend millions of dollars in lobbying and according to the center fo

united states. issues in education, healthcare, economic prosperity. every single tough issue and important issue you can think of , over the years we have discussed here. and this month, later this month we start the celebration of hispanic heritage month. celebrating the contributions of latinos in industries including hospitality, service, folks who work in the field, folks who work as janitors, folks like my grandmother who was a housekeeper and made most of her life. but also, the contributions of latinos in engineering, science, astronauts and entertainment, business, law and accounting and so many other fields. we also take a moment to think about the prosperous and vibrant latino communities in great cities like miami and new york and chicago, los angeles. my hometown of san antonio. some texans here, i like them. we know those communities have been growing for a long time. so many other places where people go, vibrant and growing latino communities salt lake city, south carolina, nebraska and iowa, minnesota. so many other states where latinos

growth of 3% to 4% higher material prices than thought of warnings about growth in the industrial healthcare unit that dropping, 3m as well as the dow in the middle of the day. the important thing is on th tariffs today. jp morgan tried to put a number on this. i haven't seen this before the full tariff war as described now could knock $8 to $10 of the s&p earnings that would knock 5% off, significant. trade wars, they say two thirds of industrials and staples were talking about tariffs. yes, there is an impact here i would note the fed minutes here some mention scaling back capital investment due to trade. so we know that china trade wars are the issue that moves markets. it's heating up. the dollar has been quieter. some issues on tech leadership today. down but not out and the fed and rate hikes i would say they're not disrupted yet. two of the four issues definitely on our radar today. back to you. >> bob, thank you very much. >>> let's get to some breaking news now in los angeles with julia borstin once again. >> reporter: verizon announcing that tim armstrong is leaving as ceo of oath. he h

and china is willing to provide it and ways that the united states has not people want that infrastructure they want simple things they want healthcare you know they want the sort of things and like our masters of the universe are elites are the people who live in d.c. in new york in these bubbles they can understand why the people outside their bubble want this things like a road a train healthy. there probably isn't a system based on a ponzi scheme and if money like you have in america with a central bank in the u.s. dollar it's a like a bernie made off where you need ever more gouging of those around you to support those at the top or as frederick boss john famously said in one of his famous eighteenth or nineteenth century books that if it looting at the top expect looting at the bottom and so america is basically a loot docker see it's run by looters by looters for looters and everyone down the on the latter is equally looting in their own regard in the case of health care because the patients are right there look there's no reason why any of these health insurance companies would start just harvesting people's kidneys for five

he's going to give you healthcare, education, that will be california will be larger than the unitedtuff. they will kill medicare and medicaid. they will kill everything you cherish and you want. mccaskill voted no on our new supreme court justice, neil gorsuch h. how good is he? [applause] and as josh said, she is not going back on an overload on somebody who is truly spectacular, yet, mccaskill voted for the liberal obama judges who want to destroy your second amendment. they want to destroy your healthcare. they want to destroy your wealth. they want to take it away. you can work hard, it won't mean anything. they want to raise the hell out of your taxes. figure that one. >> another thing, military, i can only tell you, i have to fight so hard to take care of our military, $700 billion and we had to give up things i hated to give up. but we had to build the military because it was depleted. they fought so hard not to take care of our vets and not take care of the military. it's no good. doesn't work that way. oh vote for claire mccaskill is a vote for nancy pelosi, chuck schumer,

♪ (vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. united small business owners and consumers are readying themselves for a hit. for starts, prices on basic goods, they're going to go up. nearly 6,000 types of products are on that list, including basic groceries, tobacco products, handbags and some other clothing items. with holiday shopping just around the corner, i know that's totally upsetting. larger retailers like walmart, j.c. penney and amazon say they have already locked in low price inventory for the season, but independent retailers that rely on third-party suppliers to import products for them, they could see surcharges that are out of their control, and those costs will likely get passed on to you, the consumer. in fact, a company in vice president mike pence's hometown is bracing for a major hit from the coming wave of new tariffs. it is a business called cummins in indiana and it makes engines and components. walk me through this, vaughn. they export 80% of them to customers outside this country, including china. what are peopl

that's not the way healthcare is organized in the united states, hospital exists and does his job andthe physicians are paid separately. so then they proceeded to report administrative costs as a percentage of total hospital expenditures. if the hospital expenditures include payments to physicians, the same administration is going to be much lower percentage, the countries that did that look so much more efficient. but really they were just being measured differentlyn -- this t about whether administered of costs are higher in one country or another. because we haven't made an appropriate comparison. now, it's also a problem sometimes to identify and collect administrative costs. budget documents were generally dark -- not designed for researchers and it's hard to track down costs and we end up making estimates. so what i can tell you for sure if the answer is a percentage, it's wrong. asking for a percentage in this case is simply asking the wrong question. more recently i have looked into how the aca affected administrative costs of private insurance, the exchanges were supposed to

united states. also the most expensive area of healthcare people have been working to lower cholesterol for years, buting cholesterol, whether through stat teins lowes that risk by 25% to 35%. 25% to 35% is terrific, but that leaves 55% to 65% residual risk. our drug focuses on that 55% to 65% residual risk. we believe this is new and important in terms of an opportunity for improved healthcare >> i'm sure a lot of people are looking at this interview intently thinking i want to reduce my risk we should think about not just the 25% reduction but the 25% on top of whatever reduction from statins or pcs-k9 inhibitors >> we're not trying to replace those. >> but you can have a greater rate of prevention >> exactly this is addressing a different range of risks >> one other thing about this other class of drugs from regeneron and amgen, they cost $14,000 a year your drug is priced at $2,400 a year do you plan to increase the price because of these new results? >> those drugs you referred to are terrific drugs, they address cholesterol where statins are not sufficient by -- which is a bit of a narrower mark

can and we should absolutely have a healthcare system that provides help here for every citizen in our country socialism is quite popular among millennial is in the united states more popular than capitalism in fact some pollsters say that if donald trump had run against bernie sanders in the twenty sixteen presidential election he might not have been able to pull off his victory we decided to ask dakota lily a young activist why he thinks that socialism is on the rise in the united states people my age especially the really sick you know bills that capitalism brings upon if you look at the student loan crisis right now the student loan debt is the largest holder of debt in the country more than credit card debt you know we have for profit you know educational institutions that charge sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars per semester per year you know the unemployment rate trump says it's four percent or three percent in actuality it's eight nine ten percent third half the room is made up of socialists you know it's made up of people from bolivia and cuba venezuela china you know angola south africa it's made up of people who completely disagree with h

united around these fundamental values. we believe, we all believe everyone must have access to healthcare. we believe in keeping families together. we believe all americans deserve equal rights and equal opportunities and a chance to earn a living for themselves. we believe in more people voting, not fewer, empower that belongs to the people and our voices being heard. we know and understand this is the time to stand up and take that power back. if we wait it will be too late. the unity around the ideas, especially among democratic women is the type that is lifting up votes since the 2016 election. it's the reason the energy we saw on the women's march the day after the inauguration turned immediately to into electoral wins particularly in 2017 where our candidate became the first openly transgender woman ever elected to a state legislature. where we elected women and where jennifer carroll who was put on bed rest right before her election gave birth to twins and then one her recount. this is what's going on. it's the reason african-american women in alabama decided the special u.s. senate

sure we defend america's interests, defend the united states at every step, that means keeping our values at home as well, making sure we have good healthcare, that is the kind of relationship we need with the american people and congress. >> are you for abolishing ice? >> i've defended our borders as a national security official, defend the constitution, we need to make sure we keep this country safe but in a way that doesn't rip kids from their families. >> but abolishing the agency? >> we need to reform ice and make sure it protects our country, goes after the drug dealers and criminals. they need to reform it but don't need to abolish it. >> impeachment yes or no? >> impeachment? >> impeachment is a serious problem that i would take seriously in congress. one of the most serious issues one would take up in congress. i would wait until we see the fact of the mueller investigation and see whether the facts in that report are justified before such a serious decision. shannon: thanks for your time. to the other side donald trump's disapproval rating at an all-time high according to the washington post abc, 60% of americans disapprove of his