If i knew that these costsharing reduction subsidies were coming, it would be 10 . I can eliminate 20 of the anticipated increase in premium cost if these subsidies came through. Well, its pretty clear to me, this is sound policy on a bipartisan basis that would have a dramatic impact in reducing the costs of the subsidy the cost of premiums to many individuals. That came through loud and clear in every meeting we had with senators murray and senator alexander. The second thing they talked about was state reinsurance. And i dont understand that as well as some, but it has worked in states where the state picks up a share of the liability for Health Insurance between certain dollar amounts, and so the private Insurance Companies dont end up with that burden. Because of this reinsurance, they are able to keep premium costs down. The third thing is to provide states with more flexibility without undermining some really fundamental issues, without undermining, for example, preexisting cond
In washington dc and trickle down. It bottoms up. People come forward and say that is not the way to go and say here is the way to make our lives better. I yield the floor. I note the absence. Mister president. Senator from massachusetts. I request permission to speak. Senator is recognized. Mister president , seven weeks since the senate voted down three versions of republican bills to repeal the Affordable Care act from each of these terrible bills would have stripped healthcare coverage from tens of millions of american and raise costs for millions more. During the seven weeks followed the last of those votes no one has clamored for another try. With calls for republicans to go one more round in their efforts to rip up the Medicaid Program, emails and letters asking for legislation to jack up the costs for people with preexisting conditions, tweets and facebook posts dont demand insurers get the chance to drop coverage from Mental Health issues and addiction treatment. Instead the f
Flow rate to be implemented much faster than they are currently. And then lastly the tunnel could be dewatered for entry without draining Priest Reservoir, which has a substantial benefit for both people and fish during critical outages of the tunnel. And so the benefits of downstream control include Water Quality benefits, conveyance capacity benefits, operational flexibility, maintenance, reduction costs excuse me, reduction in maintenance and Operations Costs over the 100year life of the tunnel, expected to be on the order of 20 million on a preliminary basis. More flexibility with Priest Reservoir supply and also hydro power benefits which are currently under evaluation. And so the schedule for this project would be essentially to begin our ceqa and nea process immediately. That would take a little over two years. In parallel, we would do our design process and also the rightofway accusations that are needed for the project for staging areas and access and we would expect to issue
Insurance plan they would promise would remain intact, and our friends across the aisle claim the coverage been expanded, individuals who never had Quality Health care before is have access. Wish that were two bru but its not. I wish my colleagues and i didnt hear from neighbor after neighbor to accept a. C. A. Insurance who avoids medical care all together because their deductible is hy. But we do hear from them because americans are suffering as insurance providers flea from the not so free market. You see, coverage doesnt mean access to care. We have heard too often that individuals may have Health Coverage but cant use it because their premiums and deductibles are too high because they cant afford the care. What good is the coverage does a woman who has earns 22,000 a year and has 5,000 deductible . What good does it do to say we want to grow the economy and create jobs when american businesses are struggling to keep their doors open due to the Obamacare Mandate . We have witnessed
Web. That was referring to Chuck Schumer. We bring you all of this live as it begins. U. S. Trading session, julie hyman is here with the latest. Julie the rally continuing into its second day. We tend to see a flip on the first week of trading on the new year from what we saw last week of the last year. We could see an up week this week of the last if the last five years are any indication. Rally, buta runaway we are seeing gains. I want to talk about auto sales this morning for the united states. They were largely better than estimated. Gm sales, more than double what analysts are estimating. For reporting an unexpected gain in sales of 10 . Fiat, although its sales fell 10 , analysts were predicting a steeper decline. All of them better. Fiat still trading lower. Gm and ford a gain of more than 3 here. It looks like we could surpass last years hurt for annual sales, up 17. 5 million vehicles. Been an interesting phenomenon of People Holding on to their cars longer. This is a monthly