Health plans welcome reforms to strengthen Medicare Advantage.

However, a proposal for flat program funding at a time of sharply rising medical costs

and high utilization of care will directly impact seniors' coverage.

If finalized, this proposal could result in benefit reductions and higher costs for 35 million

seniors and people with disabilities when they renew their Medicare Advantage

coverage in October 26. Learn more at a HIP.org.

Today on the Playbook podcast, Donald Trump welcomes the President of Columbia to the White

House. Is this one going to blow up?

The House will vote today on reopening the government and it looks like Mike Johnson's going to get it done.

And the old school political campaigning tool that all the cool kids are using again. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, February 3rd. How you doing, Dasha? You're hanging in there in the cold? I'm hanging in. I am done with this snow crete stuff, as they call it. I still can't get my car out. It's a disaster. I've seen pictures of people building igloos in the middle of D.C., you know, because it's like really

thick ice blocks. You can get a house with that stuff. Come on. You literally can. You should build a dog house. You could do a sort of ice kennel. A little igloo for my verbaby. Look at the way your face just melts at the very mention of their dog. It's ridiculous. Let's talk about Donald Trump for a change, shall we? He's got the president of

Columbia, Gustavo Petro, in town today from meeting at the White House this morning. And that's

really interesting for millions of reasons, which we can talk about. First of all, these guys have

had a pretty stormy relationship, right? Even by Donald Trump's standards, this was one that feels

like it has the potential to blow up,

because Petro, like Donald Trump, is someone who's prepared to speak his mind.

Yeah, and he's spoken his mind against Trump multiple times since Trump took office for the second

time, and Trump has spoken back against him. They've had a real tit for tat of both words,

and there have been tar words. And there have been

tariff threats. There have been threats of doing to him what he did to Maduro. I mean,

there has been quite a lot of heated exchange until very recently when they had a phone call

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