Of you who have received health care through the Affordable Care act exchanges. We want to know what has and has not worked for you. If you are a marketplace enrollee who lives on the eastern or central time zones, 2027488000. If you are a aca marketplace enrollee and you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can also chime in on facebook or twitter. Good wednesday morning to you. Some information about the pool of callers we are hoping to speak with in the first hour of washington journal today, there are more than about 10 million of you out in the United States. This chart breaks up the number of aca enrollees by the number of Congressional Districts in the United States. The darker districts on the map mean there are more aca enrollees in the area. There are about 5. 9 million who live in democratic districts across the country. 5. 2 million who live in democratic districts around the country. 5. 9 who live in republican districts around the country. Floridas
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across this nation of ours. I know that this grieves your heart, father. And i pray that we would repent of our sins, that you might forgive them and heal this land of ours. I pray that youll work in the hearts of the members of congress, that they be willing to put aside their political expedience and partisan politics and personal agendas, that they would strive to do what is best for our nation as a
Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group is taken from the aspen Strategy Group for those who are familiar with American Foreign policy. Probably know about the group, its undoubtedly the leading Bipartisan Group of its kind looking at Critical Issues of Foreign Policy and we established the group with that in mind, to bring together remarkable people from across different sectors in the American Health and medical landscape to look at the most pressing problems and come together with different perspectives to make recommendations for
Days, the American People have witnessed earthshaking revelations about the outrageous behavior of President Trump. The appointment of former fbi director mueller as special prosecutor is a good first step. The action shows the urgency of investigating trump russia possible collusion and interfering in our election. It also recognizes the gravity of the president s abuse of power in trying to shut down the fbis investigations. Former director mueller is a respected Public Servant of the highest integrity. Everyone respects him. The Trump Administration must give former director muellers investigation the resources and independence it needs. Im concerned that director mueller will still be subject to the supervision of the trump appointed leadership at the Justice Department. We must remain vigilant to protect the integrity of the mueller investigation. A special prosecutor cannot take the place of a truly independent outside commission that is completely free from the Trump Administrat
The state up north, from ohio, mr. Levin. Youre still bitter about some of the back and forth between our two states. I dont think ron kind was here when we introduced judy chu. And earl was here part of the time. So dr. Miller, welcome. As i read your report, your testimony, and also the executive summary, i was just struck by the thoroughness of the work you do. A lot of the issues are controversial. I remember when we first talked about controlling payments to physicians and the heck that we received and how much controversy there was. And you thought the sky was falling and it would never work out. And i mention that because i really think your report, and it has areas where there are difference of opinion, your report shows how successful this has been, this program, that is, in some respects a public but not only public, but public and private partnership. And with a lot of back and forth from the private sector as reflected in your report. And i just want to comment for each of