Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the future. And also to prevent insurers from leaving the markets where those 18 million americans buy insurance. Last week, between the meetings held before our hearings, such
After this experience. She has been able to find a plan that helps her avoid all six of her doctors including a five specialist in the primary care physician. Here is the catch. The new plan . Its out of pocket costs are now going from 4 ,000 to 45 00 range. Its now going up to an expected 5,900. It was a tough decision for her to make. She ultimate decided to pay more money in order to keep seeing the doctors that have been treating her for the past four to six years. Its a real live story of a Medicare Advantage recipient in the country whose out of pocket costs are going up because of obamacare. Its wrong. It is unfair. It should not stand. I yield the floor. Mr. President . Senator from New Hampshire. Thank you, mr. President. I came to the floor yesterday to share so many stories im receiving from my constituents about them receiving cancellations for policies they wanted to keep, higher premium under the law. Each story is very sad. I feel badly for the people of my state and acr
People who have lost their insurance until the 2014 election, and that question was not asked. Thats my thoughts. Well show you the News Conference later in our program schedule. Heres the wall street journal wawrnl headline. I. I white house to allow insurers to continue cancelled health plans, and they write that president obama said it to that insurers will be able to continue Health Insurance coverage next year for current policyholders that otherwise would be canceled under the any law. It is a significant policy retreat by the president , one that he hopes will quell that americans can keep their Insurance Plans. The president s chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, on capitol hill meeting with the house and senate and talking about the changes the president is proposing. Lets go to river city bear river city, utah. Go ahead. Make sure hi there make shoo sure you mute your television or radio and then go hate with your go ahead with your comments. Caller thank you for taking my call.
In arrests that indicated a terrorist plot or something of that nature . 0 not to my knowledge. They were for other criminal oarch ovens. Whether its Drug Trafficking money trafficking, being in the country illegally. To my knowledge just for context, theres not been a single attempted terrorist to enter a u. S. Airport aircraft since 9 11. Any Human Trafficking . Yes. There was an instan, for example, last year in miami where there were two men young women and the situation and intercededded in arrest of the two individuals. And then whether rescued that woman from Human Trafficking or what . At least for the immediate time. Let me ask you another question. Before i ask a question, i want to say thank you for your leadership, and when i talk about leadership, its sometimes the leadership is when you go down a path and you realize its not working. That it may not have been the best decision to reverse it. Thats the hard part of leadership. So thank you for your decision with denies and
Get a deputy confirmed, hopefully soon, to take to heart what Jane Holl Lute used to be. Im sure Janet Napolitano who was secretary did as well. Without with that having been said let me ask you what you believe to be some of the Major Management challenges in the department. And what do you see your role as the secretary in adjusting addressing those management challenges . Ive read that gao report. I saw the 31 issues that gao identified. I was pleased to see that, according to gao, dhs is moving in the right direction with respect to these issues and resolving a number of them. In terms of management issues, vacancies, ensuring an efficient procurement process, getting an unqualified audited Financial Statement and dealing with some of the internal controls issues that lead to an unqualified opinion, i also think that with six different Accounting Systems we need to be sure we have what the financial people call this is intelligence so you can identify things like im obligated funds