Budgets are not particularly sexy and exciting discussions, and a lot of people wonder about 1 trillion here and 100 billion there, what what does it all mean we believe this event and go live now to a conversation about whats next for Health Care Policy after several republicans against repeal and replace the law. This is hosted by axios. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thanks all of you for joining us online and thank cspan for welcoming their audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring this event. Thank all of you for coming for those of you who are following online please use hashtag axios 360 and will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information that will help you make better decisions using smart brevity sake get smarter faster. We see that also with these events where we are honored to have three senators at the center of this conversation
For sessions he did ask our written opinion and we submitted that to him, it did represent any change in either one of our opinion as rosenstein uty indicated, i believe. Asked to provide it and we did. Enator did the president ever mention to you his concern about russia the cloud on the investigation . A. G. Sessions that calls for a had with the ive resident and i believe remains confidential. Senator but you dont deny there was a communication . Do not confirm or deny existence of any ommunication between the president that i consider to be confidential. Did you first speak with the president about what director comey, date . A. G. Sessions i think that is lso covered by my opening statement, i believe the president had the right and i a duty to meet with him on proper occasions and provide advice, legal or otherwise as im called upon to do. Have done that and i believe he has a right to protect that until ntiality appropriate circumstances exist to wavemight not choose that privil
[applause] good morning but the early birds with the Health Care Policy a great gate to let the steps for Health Care Thanks for coming up so early in joining us on line and cspan to welcome their audience to axios for also a to delta dental for sponsoring this event and those who are following online please use our social media and we would get going on line. Of all manifestation information you can trust to make better decisions so you can get smarter faster. To be at the center of this conversation to have a tour of the landscape so we can count on how many of those welcome to the stage the reporter all through these amazing years of health care [applause] thanks for coming i appreciated so behind the curtain 1130 last night what happened . I have been writing about the deal all daye and. How much of a surprise was yesterdaysno announcement . So lets hit pause and explain hiking yesterday tell me what happened and why it matters . And in that individual market. Inin the two parties
Help stabilize Insurance Markets for the next two years. Politicopolitical correspondent moderated this discussion. You can join the conversation axios360 on social media. Please welcome mike allen. Mike a fantastic day for health care policy, to look at the next steps for the Nations Health care. Thank you all for joining us and thank you to cspan for welcoming their audience here. Delta for thank sponsoring this event. Thank you to all of you for coming. For all of those following axios360. Lease use axios events are like all of the manifestation of axios. Information you can trust and information will help you make that are decisions better decisions. We are honored to have three senators at the center of this conversation who are going to be here with us. We hope that together, people have a tour of the landscape and make you smarter. We can count down how many of those we do. I will act as host. I welcome my colleague. Good morning thank you for coming in your great coverage. And
Playing hockey. He is not able to join us. Mike will cover some of the points he was going to make. Why theres a call to action to increase value in our Health Care System. Ill start first by introducing each panelist and sit down, and then go on. So ill start with mike, who is one of the nations most highly regarded economists. Really what distinguishes mike, not only is he broil yant on the theory and research. Probably more than any other economist, he understands how markets work. And he leads much of the Health Care Policy work coming out of harvard medical school, he also sits on harvards benefits committee, where he learns firsthand why markets are not always efficient. Is that fair to say . He also serves on cbos panel of health advisers. A member of the Massachusetts Health connecter board of directors and vice chair of medpac. We have the fortune of having him serve on our advisory board. Hes one of the pioneers of value based insurance design. And the go to researcher for me