Providing affordable employer based insurance plans. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. On behalf of ada and the Pacific Business group on health i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching c span to today pfsh conference. We are going to discuss challenges of providing High Quality Health Care that is affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is clearly a critical topic for government policy makers. The recent election obviously highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about whats the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes our company. The expansion under aca is at a steep price and the Incoming Administration is looking for ways to get costs under control while insuring that people continue to have access to Health Insurance. Employers have long been at the forefront of this struggle for Affordable Health care. About 150 Million People under th
We have a huge plume of moisture working its way into the area. We moved a little bit closer every move that will cover. We take a look at the scattered showers over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Shifting into the south bay, not a lot going on. The east bay highway 24 is a wet drive at this point. Along 680 we have light showers reported. Over portions of the north bay area near sonoma, napa and st. Helena. Where we dont see the rain on the radar we will likely have to do. We had a lot of drizzle this morning. Probably falling below the radar. A little soggy a lot soggy. The sierra we have snow. The levels down to 5000 feet. There is a winter storm warning in place until 10 pm. Be prepared if youre heading out. It is going to be treacherous. Snow on the highways. Here at home we have an advisory that will move into place 10 pm and last until tomorrow afternoon. We have another storm coming our way. It is not going to be much over the next few days. The details of what we can expect we take
Moving with the fluctuations related to the headlines about whether or not theyre going to vote. Do they have the votes . All the different scenarios and what they mean for your money. Dont move. Weve got a busy two hours of power lunch. Starting right now. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome. Im Tyler Mathisen. Before that final, we think, house vote on capitol hill. Team of reporters are standing by. John harwood is standing by in our newsroom. Lets kick it off, though, with Kayla Tausche on capitol hill. Kayla . Reporter tyler, there have been some reports that say the report is in jeopardy. Politico say there are signs hours before the vote. Quoting some leadership saying they dont know which way the vote will go, despite the fact that they have been trying to whip members and calculate votes throughout the morning. At this moment the Vice President is huddling with members of the Freedom Caucus a short distance away from the capitol at the Capitol Hill Club holding an offcampus
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[inaudible conversation] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. For those of you who are just tuning in and our Television Audience in public Radio Audience and on the internet, welcome to the National Press club. Since 1908 we have been the embodiment of the constitution. Before we get started, i want to remind our guests in the audience of some housekeeping roles. Those of you who may have come in late, please put your phones on vibrate because we know you want to tweak. We want you to follow the action and so on twitter you can follow us at press club d. C. And using npc life. I want to introduce the head table. As i introduce each of you, please stand and briefly as your name is announced, it will be from my left and youre right. Senior reporter and treasurer of the National Press club. Michelle is the membership secretary of the National Press club. Sally is the executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at pfizer. And breaking news editor at usa today in a past member of the pre