We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a coffee with commissioners that we have completed for an hour and 31 senators were there. That is a remarkable level of we will have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the five witnesses. Ask questionskend in fiveminute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senators. It includes senators with the whitest diversions of abuse. It has a republican majority of only one. Working together during the last two years, we have been able to agree on big steps, big issues, about which we have
Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the future. And also to prevent insurers from leaving the markets where those 18 million americans buy insurance. Last week, between the meetings held before our hearings, such
Luxembourg. And its 60 years to the day since the first man made satellite sputnik one was launched by the russians, marking the start of the space race good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. In the next half an hour theresa may is expected to tell her party to shape up when she addresses the conservative conference in manchester. She will set out her vision for the uk, while emphasising the need to improve the lives of ordinary working people. Other speeches are going on at the conference. We will bring you that speech live when it begins. The leader of catalonias devolved government has told bbc news that his region will declare independence from spain in a matter of days. The dispute over Catalan Independence from spain escalated on sunday with violence and protests as voters went to the polls for a controversial referendum. Our correspondent jon donnison reports. In barcelona last night a show of strength in numbers. Hundreds of thousands of catalans protesting the central gov
More women in work than ever before with over 11000 more doctors in our nhs and over 11000 more nurses in our hospitals, Free Childcare for three and 4year old. 1. 8 million more children in good or outstanding schools. 3 million more apprenticeship, crime down by more than a third. More young people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university than at any time the history of our country, britains leading the world in tackling climate change, eradicating global poverty and countering terrorism wherever it rears its head. Samesex marriage on the books so people can get married no matter what their agenda and a National Living wage giving a pay rise to the lowest earners. Introduced not by the labour party, but by as the conservative party. [applause]. So, let us never allow the left to pretend they have a monopoly on compassion. [applause]. This is the good conservative government and we should never let anyone forget it. But, its easy when you have been in government for a while
[applause] pm may a little over 40 years ago in a Little Village in oxfordshire, i signed up to be a member of the conservative party. I did it because it is a party that has the ideas to build a better britain. It is understood the hard work and discipline necessary to see them through, and it has at its heart a simple promise that spoke to me, my values and aspirations, that each new generation in our country should be able to build a Better Future. That each generation should live the british dream, and that dream is what i believe in. But what the general election earlier this year showed is that too manylater, for people in our country, that dream feels distant. Our partys ability to deliver it is in question. And the british dream that has inspired generations of britain feels increasingly out of reach. I called the election and i know all of you in this hall, your friends and family, worked day and night to secure the right result. Because of your hard work, we got 2. 3 million