Burwell shares her experiences from implementing the Affordable Care act. After her remarks, well get a presentation from the ceo and president of independence blue cross. Good morning good morning it is wonderful to feel such energy in this room. My name is camille nelson, and im honored to be the dean of American University Washington College of law. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to American University Washington College of law for this exciting Plenary Session of the next steps in Health Reform 2017 conference. This year, in partnership with the American Society of law, medicine, and ethics, and with the generous support from our cosponsors, we are thrilled to have expanded the event to a threeday conference, attracting speakers and attendees from multiple disciplines, the academy, and practice. Importantly, this conference is also timed with the launch of our new health law and policy program, and i know that our faculty and our students will be partnering with you on your
You for joining us at noon. Im andrea roane. Right now Top White House officials are on capitol hill in an effort to convince house lawmakers to find Common Ground on health care legislation. Meg oliver shows us what theyre up against. Vice president mike pence is leading the lobbying effort on capitol hill for the latest Health Care Bill to replace obamacare. President trump says the newest version will protect patients with preexisting conditions and satisfy his supporters. These are the greatest people. Were either going to have a great plan or im not signing it. The white house is pushing for a house vote this week, but it is still unclear if there is enough support to pass it. An unofficial cbs news count finds if they were to hold the vote today it would likely fail. Republican leaders can only lose 22 of their own members. 20 have already confirmed to cbs news that they are against the current version of Health Care Bill and more are still undecided. I think were just a handful
Moments ago, calling this is a democratinflicted catastrophe. Overseas there is a terror Investigation Underway right now in paris. Details of an attack outside of famed Notre Dame Cathedral and what we know about the suspect. David go back to markets quickly. The dow closing lower for the second straight day as markets await big events inside and outside of the beltway. Nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Watching it all for us. It could have been a lot worse, nicole. Absolutely. Lets look at tech titans that hit alltime highs. A sell program went in late in the day on fang stocks, facebook, amazon, netflix and google. They hit alltime highs for you, exactly the fang stocks. Amazon went up to 1016. They are on apple tv, fire tv, offering 5. 95 a month for those with low income to have access to prime service. Retailers came under pressure. Retailers really very empathetic to latest reports from macys. Macys announcing their gross margin Going Forward will be less th
That on the 69 year diary John Quincy Adams kept. Matthew mason is here to talk about his book, John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery did. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times is a great read and an informative reality check on issues that affect us even now. Matthew mason is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young university. He holds a phd in history from the university of maryland and has been at the you why you since 2003. Has been a Brigham Young since 2003. ,e has many publications including a political biography of edward everett. He has coedited several volumes. David walstreisser is a distinguished professor. He is hey a historian of early 19thcentury america and his interest span political history, slavery, and antislavery. His books include, slaverys runawayion. America. Has also edited a number of volumes and is the recipient of a number of distinguished awards. Tom what im honored introduce them here tonight. Thank you. [applause] thank
Insurance market. The remarks made at a motoring Club Rotary Club in kentucky shows a shift from the legislator. He raised the idea last week that they wanted to turn to the democrats. This is the first time he has explicitly raised the prospect of shoring of the Affordable Care act. Mitch mcconnell who pledged to eradicate the law known as obamacare root and branch, raised the prospect of working with democrats after a measure he had crafted behind closed doors. It would jettison the requirement that people prove they had health coverage, and would make deep, longterm cuts to the medicaid program. Listen to the coverage, local coverage, of the leaders remarks in his home state of kentucky. This is the abc affiliate with their coverage of his townhall meeting. Mitch mcconnell back into the bluegrass today. Onestop he made was at a Health Pavilion community center. Senator Mitch Mcconnell taken time to address the rim before accepting questions from the audience. One of the most pressin