Majority missed a major deadline, a deadline to pass a budget for america and its government and Appropriations Bills that fund the government for the year. Republicans have the power of the majority here in the United States senate, in the house of representatives, and the presidency. Yet, the Republican Leadership has failed, failed to put together a budget for america and its government. That provides certainty for our country. Families in wisconsin who are struggling pie check to paycheck to paycheck, they put together a budget for their families because they have to in order to make ends meet. But here in washington, my friends on the other side of the aisle have played by a different set of rules. On friday night they didnt put forward a budget for america and its government. Instead they offered their fourth shortterm continuing resolution for the last four months. This is no way to govern, simply kicking the can down the road each month and ignoring the real needs of our countr
Start writing a budget that works for not only my state but every state in the union. It can be done. Its been done many, many, many times before. Unfortunately, this year, our budget ran out on september 30. We had a c. R. That took us from the next day, october 1, to december 8. And then when december 8 rolled around, we had another continuing resolution, c. R. , to take us from december 8 to december 22. And then when december 22 rolled around, we had another c. R. That took us from december 22 to january 19, and thats where we are today. Because some of us said enough is enough. We need to have a budget that works for this country. Here we are on bay two of the Government Shutdown, and this body cant even agree to pay our troops. Thats how dysfunctional we have become. Now were using military men and women as political pawns because of the dysfunction we have here in washington, d. C. In the past, we have always taken care of these folks because the Service Members and their famili
Goods or Something Like that. It is effective but just a different level of intensity. All right well, we have a lot of green cards here to which we were not able to get for which i apologize. But i think that also reflects the level of engagement of our consumers of Health Policy information here. Thank you for spending your beautiful friday afternoon inside a very cool hearing room helping us grapple with one of the most multifacetted set of problems in Health Policy these days. Thanks to anthem and the National Consumer league for helping us think through this topic and assemble a great panel. Speaking of said panel help me thank this panel for some wonderful discussion. [ applause ] well come back to this topic in september. Thanks very much. Tonight ot the communicators, Michael Oreilly on key issues before the fcc like Net Neutrality and regulating the internet and influence on policy making making. When an item is made before an open Commission Meeting and presented to the commi
Okay, this is significance of what employees can do, not what theyre considering doing in 2016. One of the reasons we do the survey in time frame that we do it. Karen and i will be tagteaming this presentation this morning. I will walk you through major findings in the survey an observations about those. Karen will come up to talk about key tactics employers will introduce in 2016 to manage Health Care Costs. I will talk about implications for employees during annual enrollment. Then well go to q a. First brief about a National Business group on health. Only nations Nonprofit Organizations that works with employers and devoted to working with employers on National Health care policy issues. Working with them to optimize Business Employment through Health Care Improvement and health Care Management. We have roughly 425 members. These are primarily Large Companies. They, 71 of the fortune 100 and they provide Health Coverage for over 50 million employees, dependents and retirees. So a bi
Message wouldve been a different one to the business community. Would have been yes we are negotiating ploy might have the dl, yes there will be a deal, but dont cross these lines because this is whats going to happen. Instead, the examples given in the precedents that were in the opposite direction. The message was sanctions or is till in the law books but we are not going to implement them which is why Companies Feel comfortable even though they are so five, six months into implementation they go through the breach. The Swiss Parliament by the way feels the same way. Switzerland maybe not the biggest Global Player but it had a fruitful trade relations and a lot of the phone companies they were running to circumvent oil sanctions, procurement sanctions, to lg sanctions lifted all of its sanctions. They abolished it. They are not waiting for congress. They are not waiting for implementation. Even if you can treat sanctions as a yellow light, not a red light anymore, it is not the yello