Hello . Ok. Good morning, everyone. I am joe antos with the American Enterprise institute. With the american i am joe as enterprise institute. I want to welcome everyone in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a Conference Today addressing the general and specific questions, also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market on the Affordable Care act. Proposal made a by your group of eight governors who will be following the panel. Why we have the governor speaking after us. The reason is travel considerations. Fortunately, although this panel is not obligate it to can find , fortunately the governors to put out a letter last week that is easy to summarize. I will start by summarizing their points so everyone has a basic rounding on what the governors are talking about grounding on what the governors are talking about and what we will be talking about. Identify three categories of actions that could be taken. Actions toederal and than the markets other ty
Medicares longterm fiscal conditions. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Everyone. Rning everyone here and everyone on cspan to the American Enterprise institute. Were having a discussion today about the Medicare Trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the Medicare Program but also the longterm outlook. My name is joe antos. And i will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. The perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook, as they said in their summary. A major concern has to do with the growth of health care innovation, which has its positives and negatives. The positives, of course, is with modern technology and modern techniques were able to cure or address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we could have in the past, but as the trustees say, while most health
December talking about bipartisan to stabilize the Health Insurance market for 2018. Lets start there. Whats your sense of the condition of those markets right now . I think theres a lot of consensus what is needed to shore up or strengthen the Affordable Care act marketplaces. Going into 2017, there was a lot of evidence, financial and otherwise Insurance Companies were starting to find their footing after a few rocky years. The policy uncertainty coming out of washington, debate over whether they will repeal the aca or not repeal the aca, whether there will be an individual mandate, that penalty for not having insurance, all of that uncertainty is causing Insurance Companies to be very nervous about their long term participation. So i think going forward, the condition of the markets is that we dont know, because theres still some key decisions that need to come out of washington to give insurers that confidence they need to stay in the market. Joseph, i want to get your thoughts on
Democrats, 202 7370001 and independents, 202 6280205. Phone lines are open so start dialing in. Let us begin with the reaction from donald trump. He issued a statement yesterday after president obama expelled the Russian Diplomats as well as closing two compounds in the u. S. Saying it is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. But in the interest of our country, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community next week in order to be updated on the facts. From capitol hill, the chairman of the Armed Services committee, john mccain saying that the white house sanctions are long overdue but a small price for russia to pay for this reason attack on u. S. Democracy. Senator mccain promising tougher action against russia. Leader, the top democrat in the senate says strongly support the Obama Administration work to fight back against russias interference in our election system. And the top democrat on the Foreign Affairs committee, senator ben cardin sing the whi
Burgess of texas talks about efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Hosted by the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Okay. Okay. I want to thank everyone for attending this event today. Im joe antos, the wilson had h. Taylor scholar for Health Care Retirement policy at the American Enterprise institute. On behalf of aei, the Brookings Institution and the Pacific Business group on health, i want to welcome everyone here and everyone watching remotely including those who are watching cspan to todays conference. Were going to discuss High Quality Health Care that is available for patients, employers and taxpayers. This is a critical topic for government poll he icymaker spo. The recent election highlighted the disagreements among many people in this country about what is the best way for government to proceed in this area. And obviously changes are coming. The expansion of Health Insurance coverage under the aca has come at a steep price and the Incoming Adm