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
And utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreciate it very much. We look forward to hearing from you. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Well then introduce the five governors, after they almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . After that testimony, the senators will each have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday when we had the state Insurance Commissioners
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
Governors of massachusetts, montana, tennessee, colorado, and utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreciate it very much. We look forward to hearing from you. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Well then introduce the five governors, after they almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . After that testimony, the senators will each have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar
We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a coffee with commissioners that we have completed for an hour and 31 senators were there. That is a remarkable level of we will have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the five witnesses. Ask questionskend in fiveminute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senators. It includes senators with the whitest diversions of abuse. It has a republican majority of only one. Working together during the last two years, we have been able to agree on big steps, big issues, about which we have