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 AHIP.org. We will do whatever it takes and risk,

whatever we have to do, to have a free Venezuela, to which we will bring our children back home.

Hello, hello, and welcome to The Conversation.

I'm Dasha Burns, Politico's White House Bureau Chief, and every week on this show,

I invite one of the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington

and beyond in for a chat to find out how they're navigating and shaping this incredible era

of American politics. And this week, I sat down with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria

Karina Machado. And as fate would have it, our interview happened exactly one month to the day

since the U.S. captured Venezuela's authoritarian leader,

Nicholas Maduro, and his wife. But long before Maduro's capture, Machado had become one of the

fiercest advocates for democracy in Venezuela. And that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize last year,

which she then gifted to President Trump in January. Now, many Venezuelans see Machado as a possible future

leader of the nation. In fact, back in 2023, she won the opposition primary to become the unity

candidate for Venezuela's 2024 presidential election, but she was barred from running for public

office by the Maduro regime. So instead, she rallied the opposition party

behind Edmundo Gonzalez, an organized an independent vote count effort that showed Gonzalez

winning the election. But the Maduro government claimed victory and Machado was forced into hiding.

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