Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projections Going Forward based on the Affordable Care act, just in the following ten years, from 2016 to 2026, they are forecasting 2. 4 9 trillion in federal healthcare savings that relate back to the Affordable Care act. This is where that came in. We throw this thing out at our peril if you care about saving medicare, the savings to which are a significant part of this 2 . 9 trillion. With nothing to re
Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projections Going Forward based on the Affordable Care act, just in the following ten years, from 2016 to 2026, they are forecasting 2. 4 9 trillion in federal healthcare savings that relate back to the Affordable Care act. This is where that came in. We throw this thing out at our peril if you care about saving medicare, the savings to which are a significant part of this 2 . 9 trillion. With nothing to re
More. Congressman, welcome. Thank you for having me back on. I want to ask you something that happened this week about donald trump, the president , of course, tweeting that perhaps u. C. Berkeley should lose its funding as a result of of the protests and cancelation of a right wing speaker. Hes threatened funding for sanctuary cities such as san jose and San Francisco. As a member of the Budget Committee, is that just bluster to you, or how seriously do you take it . I certainly dont think my republican colleagues would go along with that type of intimidation. There are many people who believe in the first amendment. Im hopeful that on the Budget Committee i will be able to convince republicans and democrats not to do that. Of course i disagree with that. Any of the president s tweets, that type of intimidation messages. On the other hand, theres a possible funding hit on obamacare, the Affordable Care act. The republicans have talked about repealing that. California gets about 15 bil
More. Congressman, welcome. Thank you for having me back on. I want to ask you something that happened this week about donald trump, the president , of course, tweeting that perhaps u. C. Berkeley should lose its funding as a result of of the protests and cancelation of a right wing speaker. Hes threatened funding for sanctuary cities such as san jose and San Francisco. As a member of the Budget Committee, is that just bluster to you, or how seriously do you take it . I certainly dont think my republican colleagues would go along with that type of intimidation. There are many people who believe in the first amendment. Im hopeful that on the Budget Committee i will be able to convince republicans and democrats not to do that. Of course i disagree with that. Any of the president s tweets, that type of intimidation messages. On the other hand, theres a possible funding hit on obamacare, the Affordable Care act. The republicans have talked about repealing that. California gets about 15 bil
More. Congressman, welcome. Thank you for having me back on. I want to ask you something that happened this week about donald trump, the president , of course, tweeting that perhaps u. C. Berkeley should lose its funding as a result of of the protests and cancelation of a right wing speaker. Hes threatened funding for sanctuary cities such as san jose and San Francisco. As a member of the Budget Committee, is that just bluster to you, or how seriously do you take it . I certainly dont think my republican colleagues would go along with that type of intimidation. There are many people who believe in the first amendment. Im hopeful that on the Budget Committee i will be able to convince republicans and democrats not to do that. Of course i disagree with that. Any of the president s tweets, that type of intimidation messages. On the other hand, theres a possible funding hit on obamacare, the Affordable Care act. The republicans have talked about repealing that. California gets about 15 bil