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[inaudible conversations] please come to order. We are holding the first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individuals Health Insurance market for 2018. How to help the 18 million americans and the individual Insurance Market to give an idea of how many people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate on the committee. To come to. Weve got senators there so that is remarkable interest. We will each have an Opening Statement and then introduced the five witnesses. After the testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask witnessewitnesses questions andl do it in five minute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senator nearly one quarter of the members of the senate and that includes senators with the widest divergence of views and has a republican majority of only one. Working together the last two years, weve been able to agree on big steps, big issues about which we have b
This hearing is about taking one small step. A small step on the big issue that has been locked for seven years, Health Insurance. It is a step Congress Needs to pick by the end of this month. By the end of this month. To the 18 million americans, songwriters and selfemployed farmers, those that dont get their Health Insurance from the government or onthejob committees 18 million by their Health Insurance in the individual market and about half of them have zero Government Support to help buy that insurance. 18 million is only 6 of those who have Health Insurance in america. So thats the individual market. Nearly 300 million have Health Insurance, e. 18 million have the individual market that is 6 of all of the insured and 9 million of the 18 million have no government help to buy their insurance and are the ones hurt by higher premiums and copayments and deductibles. A 35yearold making 48,000 a year in lynchburg would receive no tax benefit to cover her 7,100 a year premiums. 7,100dol
David as we mentioned, market taking a pause ahead of the fed. Where are we . Fx flat. Not a lot of i am right now. Lets take a step back. That is your forward multiple across the group. We put that together with the earnings yield and blue. That tells you they have outpaced revisions upward. E are currently above it gives you yield gap just just above 4 . Open ofes away from the markets. What are we watching . Not very excited about today. Sophie you can smell the caution in the air. Taking bigiding positions as we wait for the fed. The kospi had a session low. Aussie stocks leading laggards, falling for a second straight day. Telecom stocks on the back foot. The currency space, the aussie under pressure, perhaps sliding given what we futureing in iron ore, slumping 10 in the past four days. He dollar is rebounding the hong kong dollar higher. On tuesday, it jumped. Investors seeing a bit of a hangover after yesterdays advance, the most heavily traded day for japanese stocks. Near a t
Generated bipartisan praise. I think it was perfectly appropriate to do that. The action shows the urgency of investigating trumprussia possible collusion and interference in our election. There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. Meanwhile, rod rosenstein, the man who appointed mueller, and wrote a memo critical of comey, briefed congress behind closed doors. Take away the takeaway i have is that everything he said is that you need to treat this investigation as if it may be a criminal investigation. And former National Security advisor Michael Flintstone walls a congressional committees request. General flynns lawyer said he would not honor the subpoena. Thats not a surprise to the committee. We explore it all, with Julie Hirschfeld davis, of the New York Times, Michael Scherer of time magazine, Alexis Simendinger of real clear politics. And manu raju of cnn. Celebrating 50 years, this is Washington Week.