The National Live book festival starting 10 a. M. Eastern saturday on cspan2s book tv. Maryland senior senator ben cardin held a town hall on health care. He also discussed medicaid and medicare. He was joined by the leader of Johns Hopkins university. Short talk on republicans failed efforts to repeal the Affordable Care act and then took questions. [inditinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [raps gavel] hoping to have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about health care. I want to welcome [applause] thanks. For all lets have a discussion for all. Good evening. Welcome to everyone who came this evening. My name is tom lewis. Im the Vice President for government and Community Affairs for Johns Hopkins. I want to welcome you to Johns Hopkins Montgomery County campus. Promised 11 years we have been offering postgraduate level courses here. I want to introduce our speaker. For 20 cardin served years in the maryland house of delegates, the youngest ever elected to
Tonight we are hoping to have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about healthcare. I want to welcome thank you. Free speech for all. Also lets just have a discussion for all. So, good evening, welcome to everyone who came this evening. My name is tom louis. Im the Vice President for government and Community Affairs for Johns Hopkins. And i want to welcome you to the Johns Hopkins montgomery campus. For 30 years we have been offering graduate Level Education courses here. I want to say a little bit about the speaker tonight. Before i introduce him. Senator carden served for 20 years in the maryland house of delegates. He was the youngest speaker ever elected to lead the maryland house of delegates. He was also after that spent 20 years in as a u. S. Congressman from maryland. And had a very distinguished mark there. He was elected to the u. S. Senate and in the senate he is the highest ranking democrat on republican dominated Foreign Relations committee. And he also serv
Have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about healthcare. I want to welcome thank you. Free speech for all. Also lets just have a discussion for all. So, good evening, welcome to everyone who came this evening. My name is tom louis. Im the Vice President for government and Community Affairs for Johns Hopkins. And i want to welcome you to the Johns Hopkins montgomery campus. For 30 years we have been offering graduate Level Education courses here. I want to say a little bit about the speaker tonight. Before i introduce him. Senator carden served for 20 years in the maryland house of delegates. He was the youngest speaker ever elected to lead the maryland house of delegates. He was also after that spent 20 years in as a u. S. Congressman from maryland. And had a very distinguished mark there. He was elected to the u. S. Senate and in the senate he is the highest ranking democrat on republican dominated Foreign Relations committee. And he also serves on the committees on e
Possibility of if its approved for one doing it for all, but then having i would add to that, and i think that was part of the discussion, that there be a governor opt out of that particular thing, but i would add to that, and i know that there is a difference between when the governors they are around all the time and the legislators who are around some of the time. So ive always suggested that there be an opt out or an opt in by the governor, provided when the legislature meets they agree. I dont know what happens if there isnt agreement, but im certain that there would be some good suggestions that would come out of that. Yesterday we talked with the Insurance Commissioners and they talked about the need for reinsurance and high risk pools and maine has an invisible high risk pool that i think could be useful, again, provided there was an opt out by the governors with the approval of legislature. We also had a good explanation yesterday of Small Business health plans or Association
Commissions will please come to order. We are holding our second hearings on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here today. Thank you, gentlemen. You have come long distances to be here. We look forward to learning from you. We will each have an Opening Statement and introduce the five governors after almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . Senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday when we had the state Insurance Commissioners here. We had 31 senators, most of them not on the Committee Meet for an hour and at the hearing we had 22 of our 23 Committee Members. So for two consecutive days we have had them focus on a single narrow objective. What can we do in the next couple of weeks . Thats a tall order. The next couple of