My point here is that your pragmatism i love. This is not the pugilisms or that is prodigious in washington. It is about solving problems, lowering costs, giving access to Small Business people like you who want to compete with the big boys. When its in my city is that many folks have a hard time keeping employees who could easily go to other companies who have Better Health insurance plans. You probably know people who could go to other companies and get less salary for Better Health insurance is that correct . I think that is one of our positive attributes. The goal here is to make sure we take this variable, which is made Small Businesses get crushed in the past. Call it socialism or whatever you want, the other countries have costs that you internalize. Were not here to score political points. I dont care about the next election, i care about solving the problems. Most people are saying right now fix the thing, which is what youre saying, right . Hickey, who has no jersey connectio
One is talking about what happened before the Affordable Care act. If we could take our seats and welcome to this important hearing this morning. The purpose of todays hearing is to explore the Success Stories of the rollout of the Affordable Care act in states throughout the country, where teamwork and cooperation has proven to be exceedingly effective. We will also hear from a federal panel that will talk about the federal rollout and some of the challenges that have presented themselves. Normally, we have the federal panel first and the state panel second, but at the discretion of the chair, i reversed it, but require the federal leaders to be here to hear from the state exchanges and from individual Business Owners about how the situation could be improved. Id like to begin by quoting, i think it was mark twain, who said, a lie can get halfway around the world before truth gets out of bed in the morning and puts its boots on. So this morning, were going to try to give truth a chanc
The fed was very accommodative, and we started to build a housing bubble which we burst in 2008, and now i think arguably in 2013 we may have created or at least started to create another equity bubble that in some areas, perhaps many some real estate markets, is also turning into a bubble. New york city, toronto, we were talking about this at lunch, other urban centers, especially those attractive to foreign buyers are seeing very rapid increases whereas in more rural areas thats not happening. So how do we, how do we respond to this, and what does this tell us about the future . One of the things thats emerged here is that the financial and real estate markets have in the United States and perhaps elsewhere have developed a kind of uncomfortable codependence with the central bank. That is, if markets, especially lets say equity markets in the last several years, are very resilient in the face of threats. We saw this in recent weeks where all the armwringing, handwringing and talk abo
On behalf of our member companies. Our agenda looks a little different from what you all expected. We had a little lastminute change. Jennifer cannot be with us. She is in the premises. Her luggage is not. She sends her apologies. She would have provided a stellar update on what is going on in illinois. We wish her well. With that, i am going to turn it over it to representative greg cromer who will kick us off. Thank you. It is good to be with you folks this morning. Greetings from the state of louisiana. Home of the new Orleans Saints and health cooperative. Thats a cheap plug but i had to do it. A little history. I was in the Space Business for 31 years building tanks. Then, working with the boeing corp. Big, big rocket. Ive been elected to legislature for six years. I was brought an opportunity to change career paths at age 55. We are a nonprofit Government Insurance company. The newest in the state of louisiana. Some of you may question the wisdom of that choice or decision to go
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