And later a look at how diversifying americas workforce can be achieved by education and other means. The open Enrollment Period for purchasing Health Insurance on the federal marketplace began this weekend. The alliance for Health Reform recently hosted a discussion on what enrollees can expect and the improvements after last years rollout. This is an hour and a half. Hi, my name is ed lawrence and i want to welcome you to todays program on the Health Insurance marketplaces or exchanges. Some of you may have heard that tomorrow, that is november 15th begins the second open enrollment season for plans offered through the marketplace. That period runs through february 15, far shorter period than the sixmonth open enrollment time that we had last season. We all know that market places had some major problems with aspects of their operations, im sure well hear some about that today as well as hearing about the steps being made to improve that functionality. And we also wanting to look clo
Working on 15 bills under suspension of the rules. The 2015 student cam bit of competition is underway. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the same very three branches and you on policy, law, or action by the executive, legislative or Judicial Branch of the federal government has affected you or your community. 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 1000. With a list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. Live today on the cspan networks from our remarks but the chair of the nicaragua trade commission at 1 00 on cspan2. Also, criminal defense lawyers and a report from their National Association on our companion network cspan3 at 1 00 eastern. This weekend, president obama wrapped up his weeklong tour of the asiapacific region with a stop in brisbane, australia. He spoke for about 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please, take a seat. Hello, brisbane. It is good to
Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge
An audible conversations [inaudible conversations] we are going to find a seat and allow us to get started. We will try to do it on time. Good afternoon. My name is ed howard with the alliance for Health Reform. On behalf of senator bond and senator rockefeller, we want to welcome you to this program to take a look at the initial almost eight weeks of experience since the marketplaces or exchange is open for business on october 1. And the major pieces of implementation of the Affordable Care act began taking shape. We want to recognize our partners in this enterprise. The Commonwealth Fund, which is almost four baby just over 100yearsold on the washingtonbased philanthropy devoted to the common good. You will be hearing from Sarah Collins of commonwealth in just a moment. This program is important because we want to go to give you as much information as we can, and to put every piece of data that you have seen into the perspective particularly from the perspective of folks who are actu
Report, and all in the financial being and making ends meet. Savings is lower down on the scale, but were helping people put together budgets so they have a monthly plan where they can pay their bills and also hopefully save. We do we have developed a Financial Wellness strategy called the thin fit challenge where we give people points and prizes in the workplace like the Wellness Programs today. I think this is in the future, the third leg of the stool. Weve been focused on green energy to address our abuse of natural resources. Weve focused on Health Wellness because of our bad lifestyle habits in america, and now we have to be focused on Financial Wellness. Its going to be something that were all going to have to participate in. I think my time is up. Please, we have time for just a couple questions, i think. I was wondering what kind of services do people resort to, and have you made end roads, particularly, you know, with the new Consumer Protection Financial Bureau at the federal