[inaudible] Insurance Market for the year 2018. That is our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here with us today. Thank you gentlemen. We know how busy you are. You have come long distances to be here. We appreciate it with the court learning from you. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement to introduce the five governors. Sounds like a singing group. Then senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators [inaudible] our committee, we had 30 senators there similar to yesterday we had state Insurance Commissioners here. Thirtyone senators most [inaudible] the Committee Meet for an hour and then we had 22 of 23 members. For two consecutive days weve had half members of the United States status and focus on a single narrow objective. What can we do in the next couple of weeks . Thats a tall order. The next couple of weeks that the senate, the house c
About how to stabilize the individual health care market. His is just under two hours. Good morning everyone. Im with the American Enterprise institute and welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a conference today, addressing the general and very specific question, also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular, some proposal made by a group of eight governors who will actually be following the panel. Now you may wonder why we have the governors speaking afterwards and the answer is travel considerations. But fortunately, although this panel is certainly not obligated to confine their remarks solely to the governors proposal. The governors did put out a letter last week that is quite easy to summarize. Everyone has a basic grounding in what the governors are talking about and to some extent and grounding and what we will e talking about as well. We identify really three categories o
Secretary devos thank you for your introduction and for the opportunity to be here. I want to thank president cabrera for his leadership at George Mason University and to the students and faculty with us today, thank you for making time to be here on this busy day of classes. Its a great honor for me to be here today to address a very important topic. Earlier this year marked the 5th anniversary of title 9, the landmark legislation passed by congress that seeks to ensure, and i quote, no person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any Education Program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. The amendment to the Higher Education act was initially proposed by democrat senator bayh and signed into law by republican president nixon and renamed for patsy minching, a. Ctim of sexbased and racism minchings law has served an Important Role in shaping our environment. Tle
Others. Who is our person of the week. Good evening and its great to have you with us on a friday night. We end the week with the breaking headline from the white house. President trump demanding the resignation of tom price, the secretary of health and Human Services is out. Hell be replaced at midnight tonight comes after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money on luxury jets and that list of cabinet members under fire for spending is growing. Interior secretary ryan zinke and Top Republicans are demanding an investigation and mary bruce on how much of your money taxpayer dollars has been spent and the questions now mounting tonight. Reporter as he boarded air force one tonight, it sounded like the president had made up his mind about Health Secretary tom price. Im disappointed in him. Hes a good man, but im disappointed in him. Reporter just minutes before, abcs jon karl asked the president if price was going to last. Youll make a decision about whether or not to fir
Future of the g. O. P. , and the realities of tax reform. Plus, america addicted. We kick off our new series on the deadly Opioid Epidemic sweeping the nation. Tonight, a look at how we got here. Brangham studies have now clearly shown that opioid medications can lead to dependency within just a matter of days, and so, this flood of prescriptions led to a surge of addiction. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. 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 were covering two big stories this evening. Tom prices stint as secretary of health and Human Services is over,