Stabilize the Health Insurance market. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Senate committee on health, labor and pensions will come to order this morning. We are holding our third of for hearings on stabilizing the cost of premiums and ensuring americans are able to purchase insurance in the individual Insurance Market in 2018. This is the market were 6 of insured americans, that is 80 Million People by their insurance. Those who dont get insurance through medicaid while on the job. For the past fee years, the cost of premiums in the individual market copays deductibles up and skyrocketing in many states. Half of these 18 million americans have government subsidies to cushion the blow of the rising prices. Many of those who find themselves in the other half are being priced out of the Insurance Market that they simply cannot afford. That is why these hearings have a narrow objective. Congress and the president do between now and the limit the month to help premium increases in 2018 and l
Dozens of cities vying for attention. See how this mayor is courting the company thats promising 50,000 new jobs. Oh boy. Pretty cool. [laughter] soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. President trump is pursuing a strategy to deliver on his agenda, using the power of executive orders in part, he says, to force congress to do its job. Despite republican control of the house and senate, they have failed to pass any major element of the president s legislative agenda. In play or not infrastucture, keeping the government open by agreeing on a 2018 budget, changes to the Affordable Care act, a solution for dreamers, and immigration reform. And the top gop priority an overhaul of the federal tax system. Here to discuss the likely outcomes of Current White House and Congressional Strategies are republican political strategist Ford Oconnell and democratic strategist jamal simmons. Nice to see you guys. Jamal good to be here. Soledad lets dive right in. President trump has signe
Be joined by Vice Committee member and, supervisor katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the committee, do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the filed should be submitted to the clerk, today will appear on the december, 13th, board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. . Ethank you, and colleagues, and everybody from the audience, we have a long agenda, as is the annual tradition, before the holiday break, in order to accommodate the schedules we are going to make a few changes. So item 19 is going to be called out of order by 11 30, and item 17 will be called after 11 30. And also, in the beginning here, madam clerk, could you call, item 18, please . Item 18, here activation of the three publicly owned buildings, in 60, 11, 35, and 45, and including activation and construction time line and, budget is s
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
In which a group of people tried to do something realtime. For a complete American History tv schedule go to csp cspan. O cspan. Org. On the health care laws, successes and failures as they prepare to replace it. It includes how the law and what should be a part of any replacement plan. We are going to talk about the results of a five state study on how competition is working in the Affordable Care act marketplaces and what we might learn from this study and how we think about competition in the marketplaces Going Forward. This is one of my Favorite Places to work with colleagues. The bookings in rock feller institute fuelled Network Study of the competitiveness you mentioned of marketplaces and Health Insurance individual nol group Health Insurance marketplaces in five states. California, florida, michigan, North Carolina and texas and we have a summary report and five reports almost big enough from the five authors or author groups of the individual states that i just mentioned. Each