The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Almighty god, thank you for giving us another day. In your presence, dark nights of challenges are dispelled by the dawn of your love and you know our needs before we express them. Thank you for daily providing our lawmakers with guidance and strength. E pause to thank you for the courage and Sacrificial Service for our Capitol Police. Forgive us when we take their daily Courageous Service for granted. Forgive us, also, when we seem to forget that words matter and can become seeds that will bring a bitter harvest. Bring speedy healing to our brother Steve Scalise and all those injured in yesterdays shooting. Bring peace and solace to all those affected by yesterdays tragedy. Today, use the members of this peoples house as part of your peace, bringing unity from division, light from darkness, from m sadness and hope despair. Dear god, continue to bless america
Be voting possibly as soon as next week. Republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independents 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media cspanwj. Good wednesday morning. You can start calling in now with your message to the senate. Heres the front page of todays Washington Post talking about where we are right now in the health care does russian. After weeks of the grid deliberations Senate Republicans are in the final stages of a sweeping rewrite of the Nations Health care laws amid growing frustration among the rank and file about how to fulfill the parties Talk Campaign promise over the past of in years. Mitch mcconnell hinted that a final vote could come next week even as key senators expressed concerns about the lack of the transparency. Yesterday Mitch Mcconnell offered these comments about where the legislation is. For weeks we have been in intense discussions with all republican senators in working groups that all members were free to come to if they cho
Bill. The other group that we are seeing have the biggest reaction is perhaps the medicaid exposed insurers. So were seeing here molina is up by 2. 4 . Centin, wellcare, a couple of other insurers that are trading higher. Theres Something Else from the bill and im looking here as we are all trying to piece through the bill and look at the various pieces of it, apparently this latest proposal will provide an additional 50 billion over four years to stabilize the insurance exchanges. So even some of the larger insurers have been reacting, not as dramatically as this. But they are higher today. In fact, if you take a look at the groups that are moving in the s p 500 on the bloomberg, on the imap youll see that health care is in the top spot. And in fact has been rising all week. And has been outperforming the s p 500 all year. Health care in the top spot here, up 1. 25 . As we see these gains here as we get these details of the bill. Again, with the caveat that we dont know if this is wha
Potentially, by as much as 40 in iowa, 59 in maryland and even a staggering 80 in new mexico. Doesnt sound like obamacare is working . They said it would increase choice, they said it would increase choice. They said it would increase choice but, of course, it didnt. This year 70 of american counties have had little or no choice of insurers under obamacare. Next year, at least 44 counties are projected to have no choice at all. Meaning, yet again, americans could be thrown off the plans in states like missouri and ohio and wisconsin. Doesnt sound like obamacare is working . E now democrats tell us it be wrong for the senate to actually address these problems in a serious way while the lot they have defended for seven years teeters, literally teeters, on the edge of total collapse. They were wrong before, they are wrong again. Obamacare is not working by nearly any measure, it has failed and no amount of 11th hour reality denying or passing by democrats will change theto fact that more
Find it online at cspan. Org. Just type Capitol Hill National Security Forum in the search bar. This morning Senate Republicans released their version of the bill to replace the health care law. Shortly after the text was released, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and senators from both sides of the aisle came to the senate floor to talk about the proposal. Majority leader, seven years ago, democrats imposed obamacare on our country. They said it would lower costs. It didnt. In 2013 to 2017 premiums have on average doubled and the vast majority of states on the federal exchange. Next year, obamacare premiums will go up across the country once again. Potentially by as much as 43 in iowa, 59 in maryland, and even a staggering 80 in new mexico. Does it sound like obamacare is working. They said it would increase choice. They said it would increase choice but, of course, it didnt. This year 70 of american counties have had little or no choice of insurers under obamacare. Next year, people w