Legislative uncertainty created instability and chaos in the Insurance Market resulting in the Cost Increases for consume consumers. The president and ceo of care h source adventure that offers plans through the Insurance Marketplace. The rate would increase by about 2 in 2018 compared to 2017. Now the company says thent Administration Stopped the m costsharing payments and refused to commit to make the payment rate would increase by a minimum. This is real healthcare and real life and death decisions. , he said, and i quote, in addition we believe that seizing the payments may adversely impact the risk pools leading to further increases in future years. The chairman and ceo said in part in a letter, and i quote without the certainty of the funding, and some will have no choice but to reevaluate the approach to failing 2018 raids. Such could include reducing surface area participation requesting additional rate increases, eliminating certain Product Offerings and exiting certain compli
Business washington impact campaign, which is a yearlong programming series. For more information on this series, view the url on the back of the card. Grateful tolarly the person who runs Public Policy and was instrumental in organizing todays conversation. Now i would like to introduce the global and u. S. Managing harder for health care. She will be offering a few remarks before we begin. She has been representing Health Care Clients for more than 25 years. She has worked with Academic Medical Centers and managed care organizations. Please join me in welcoming and anne. [applause] thank you eric for cohosting this. The space is gorgeous. We are pleased at how everything turned out. This is the first one of this kind that we have posted and we would like to do more in the future. I am pleased to present our two moderators. They will introduce the two senators. We have mary hamrick. She is our National Managing principal for Public Policy initiatives. As such, she leaves the Public Po
Action that occurs on social media, versus thoughts that are expressed on social media. Woodruff and, Jeffrey Brown gets a glimpse into the life of author and comedian David Sedaris, through his series of autobiographical essays. It used to be about racking up laughs, right . But, i think you need some sorrow to give the laughter a bit of weight. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the battle over tax cuts is heating up. House Speaker Paul Ryan promised today that republicans are moving full speed ahead, despite divisions over the issue. In a washington speech, he said the g. O. P. Majorities in Congress Must press for transformational tax reform. We need to get this done in 2017. We cannot le
Lets check on where stocks are diverging with Abigail Doolittle. Abigail we have a big divergent , one that is rolling as the day goes on. We have the dow, the s p 500 trading modestly lower, the dow down about. 3 , the s p 500 about 2 . 2 being dragged down by energy, look at the nasdaq. , andasdaq up about. 5 tech is helping, one of the only two sectors positive in the s p 500, but biotech is as well, pretty investing there. Oil is the big story after what could have been perceived as somewhat of a bullish department of Energy Inventories report. According to our oriole strategist at bloomberg, oil is down 3 , now down 23 from the february peak. Energy is the worst sector for the s p 500. These are among the worst performers. Chesapeake, apache, transocean. When we look at the bloomberg chart, thisthis will not come as a surprise either. We have the s p 500 energy index being taken down, and below we have percentage of energy to the s p 500. Right now, it is at the lowest level since
Body. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator plop . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell i come to the floor tonight to raise concern about a proposed Senate Health care bill that might move through the United States senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without hearing, without attention to the details actually, almost in secret. I guess it would be secret if we didnt know exactly what was in the house bill. It would be even more secret. People have said it will be about 80 of what was in the house bill. I can agree with President Trump. That was a mean bill. If it is just 80 mean, i can guarantee that you its still going to be mean. I say that because i have been at home listening to my constituents. They do not appreciate one bit if youre Harbor View Hospital and you are going to cut 800 million out of their budget because of the cap on medicaid and you are going to leave a hospital without resources, they are mad. If you are talking a