Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Questions. Thank you. Chairman issa, Ranking Members cummings, members of the committee, thank you for an opportunity to be here. Cms strives to be as responsive as possible. I understand that we have already provided over 140,000 pages of documents to this committee. Transparency is important and thats why im pleased to be here today and have the opportunity to answer your questions. We will continue to produce documents. In the almost five years that ive had the privilege to work at cms, my focus has been on how we can best serve our beneficiaries, including seniors on medicare, adults and children on medicaid and chip andenrolli marketplace. I work ro to reduce cost, improve quality in ways that make a difference. Were making real and important progress. As of august 15th this year, we have 7. 3 million americans enrolled in the Health Insurance marketplace coverage. These are individuals who have paid their premiums. We are encouraged by the numbers of consumers who have paid their
Costs such expensive and not getting results. Good morning. It is simply a ponzi scheme that will not last. 6 million policies have been canceled. That is approximately 20 million people. I have heard about 500,000 have actually paid for a plan. That is a scheme that cannot last. Going to behere is a massive Insurance Company bailout for this scheme. The cure is worse than the problem. S, amount of spin, lie deception is going to change that fact. It is just a matter of time before the whole thing crumbles. It will require a massive bailout. Forget the spin. Guest that is the precise view of an opponent of the Affordable Care act. I am a reporter. There are Success Stories for some people under the Affordable Care act. Others are not benefiting as much. The law is highly controversial among many members thank youlic. Host very much for joining us this morning. Medicare and medicaid Officials Say last year saw the Lowest Health Insurance Premium increases since 1986. The Journal Health
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Released a statement saying House Minority leader nancy pelosi had the following to say in a statement president obama also released a statement that reads later today, Terry Mcauliffe will be sworn in as virginias next governor. We will have live coverage of the inauguration ceremony beginning at 12 05 eastern on c span. The house ended the week by passing a bill that would require the federal government to report Security Breaches on its healthcare. Gov website. Members will be turning their attention to a shortterm spending measure this week that will keep the government funded past january 15, which is when expiresding authority for the federal government. The senate will continue to work on the bill extending Unemployment Benefits that expired in december for more than a million people. For more on those items and what to expect next week, we talked to a reporter covering capitol hill. As Congress Wraps up its first full week and gets set for another full week of legislative actio