Good morning. Im joe and i want to welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular a proposal made by a group of eight governors. We will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us. The answer is travel considerations. Fortunately although this panel is not obligated to confine their remarks to the governors proposal the governors did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. Ill summarize the major points so everyone has a basic grounding in what is governors are talking about and to some extend what the panel will be talk about as well. So they identify really three categories of actions that could be taken, immediate federal actions to stabilize the markets and then other types of reforms that address c
Across the country. Well start with shoons commissioners from oklahoma, washington, tennessee and alaska. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to ord order. In the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances some of you to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give a idea of how many people are interested in this, snar murray and i invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate is on this committee, to come to a coffee with the five commissioners that weve just completed for a hour. We had 31 senators there. So thats remarkable level of interest. Senator murray and i will have a Opening Statement then introduce our five witnesses. After their testimony, senators will have a opportunity to ask witnesses questions and well do it in five minute rounds. So a
Testimony by state Insurance Commissioners and governors from across the country. Well start with shoons commissioners from oklahoma, washington, tennessee and alaska. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to ord order. In the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances some of you to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give a idea of how many people are interested in this, snar murray and i invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate is on this committee, to come to a coffee with the five commissioners that weve just completed for a hour. We had 31 senators there. So thats remarkable level of interest. Senator murray and i will have a Opening Statement then introduce our five witnesses. After their testimony, senators will have a opportunity to ask
They allow you to see your home in realtime from anywhere. But what if you werent the only one watching . Theres an important security hole you need to know about, or youll risk broadcasting your private life to a stranger. Kevin this is her inner home. I can see her living room, dining room, kitchen, everything. And im like, this is totally disturbing and not right. And shes totally oblivious. Vicky kevin schuh doesnt know who this woman is or why he suddenly had a window into her world, and it appears she had no idea she was being watched. So creepy. Kevin its totally creepy. I was like, this could have been my sisters, could have been my mom, you know. So, i was like, we need to tell people about this. Vicky kevin says he bought a canary Security Camera from amazon, but decided it wasnt the right one, so he returned it. About a month later, he received an alert, and his inbox filled up with video clips recorded in this womans home. They were automatically saved and emailed. Kevin i
Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection