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05/24/2017: The CBO has spoken
May 24, 2017

05/24/2017: The CBO has spoken

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The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the American Health Care Act today. That's the revised version, passed by the House already. The CBO says this bill will leave 23 million people without insurance by 2026, while reducing the deficit by $119 billion. The last version scored by the CBO came out to a million more uninsured, but a steeper deficit reduction. We'll get some initial analysis from Vox's Sarah Kliff. Then, we'll return to Pennsylvania for our series The Big Promise, exploring how health care is propping up Erie's faltering manufacturing economy. Plus, a conversation with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman. 

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How health care is healing Erie's ailing economy

May 24, 2017
The city's two biggest hospital systems employ nearly 7,000 people.
Health care “is a very, very core thing to the community,” said Marc Bryant, a former paper mill engineer who is now a nurse at UPMC Hamot.
Erika Beras

Breaking down the new CBO score on the House's health care act

May 24, 2017
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 23 million more Americans will be without insurance by 2026 under the amended bill.
 President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden after the House of Representative passed the health care bill on May 4.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

Trump's NATO visit is going to be awkward

May 24, 2017
President Trump has arrived in Brussels on the latest leg of his first official foreign trip since his election. Apart from meeting European leaders, he will visit NATO’s shiny new headquarters in the Belgian capital. This could be a tricky visit. During the election campaign, Trump was not overly complimentary about the alliance. Click the […]

DeVos faced tough questions about education budget on the Hill

May 24, 2017
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was on the Hill today defending the president’s 2018 budget request before a House appropriations subcommittee. The White House has proposed cutting or shrinking more than 30 federal education programs, shaving more than 13 percent off the overall budget. That’s the biggest proposed cut to the department’s discretionary funding since the […]

PayPal's Schulman says the future may not be cashless, but it's definitely mobile

May 24, 2017
Helping people with everyday transactions is a 'noble mission,' the CEO says.
"When it comes to financial services, the single most important brand attribute you can have is trust," says Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal.
Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Kiva

Google tries to connect the dots between online ads and offline buys

May 24, 2017
Online shopping is sometimes just that — shopping. The actual buying happens later — in an actual store. Until now, retailers haven’t been able to connect those dots. Google says it has a tool that will let them connect online clicks to in-store buys. Good for Google, which may be able to sell more search […]

The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the American Health Care Act today. That’s the revised version, passed by the House already. The CBO says this bill will leave 23 million people without insurance by 2026, while reducing the deficit by $119 billion. The last version scored by the CBO came out to a million more uninsured, but a steeper deficit reduction. We’ll get some initial analysis from Vox’s Sarah Kliff. Then, we’ll return to Pennsylvania for our series The Big Promise, exploring how health care is propping up Erie’s faltering manufacturing economy. Plus, a conversation with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman. 

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