The Washington State Legislature’s scheduled 60-day session is progressing smoothly. My colleagues and I are approaching the halfway point of session. Senators will spend the majority of time during the
park but this christmas it has its own challenges. i m talking about a man who created this, 1 million bulbs and cost up 35% year to date. getting the lightbulbs themselves, they come from overseas. all the lights come from china. it is difficult to source them. we had significant cost escalations and 45% to 50% to get them here. neil, show them the school bus. it took you a week to put on the school bus? that is a large optic and painful to get the lights off, synchronized and taped down. it takes staff to do that. you are out here serving french fries yourself and cooking over the fryer. that is right our brother and i work in whatever it takes to get it down so the customer is happy and transparent to them. we stick together as a team and
premiums are going to skyrocket even more than they would have skyrocketed without this, and it s going to cost the government money. that is why we re less than two months in. they have developed a life-threatening fact allergy in the administration. you see them saying don t trust anything the cbo tells you, don t trust the kbur row of labor statistics. it s embarrassing what they re doi doing. steven, your response. the health insurance market right now is in a death spiral. austan, i disagree with you. i think what s happening is the costs are exploding at such an accelerating rate, if we stay with the current system, we re going to see more and more millions of americans losing their health insurance because they can t afford to pay for it. i know a lot of families personally who say if these cost escalations happen, i m going to drop my health care insurance