Good morning everyone. Im joe the American Enterprise institute and i want to welcomen everyone here in our comforter and everyone watching through electronic means to conference t 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 will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us and the answer is travel considerations. Fortunately, although this panel is certainly not obligated to confine their remarks solely to the governors proposal, fortunately, the governor did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. I will start by summarizing and raising the point so that everyone has a basic grounding in what the governors are talking about and, to some extent, the basic grounding about what were talking about, as well. So, they identify really three categories of actions
The speaker pro tempore the house will be the speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 600, the amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as adopted and the bill as amended shall be considered read. The bill shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce and the chair and ranking minority member on the committee on ways and means. The gentleman from minnesota, mr. Paulsen, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Levin, will each control 15 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. Mr. Paulsen i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extrages you materials on the bill into the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Paulsen i rise in support of h. R. 849, the protecting seniors access to medicare act this discussion is not new, members. Republica
Heres the big low in southern california, and they get rain. This pressure grade is relaxing, and we take a good look at this with another system dropping in for dramatic cooldown on wednesday. Sunny for all, 60s and 70s with soft 80s, as we say. Good morning. Thank you, steve. Happy monday. Here we are 4 01 am as we start with the tracy super commute. No problem on 580 and the 205 interchange. A little bit of slow down but not severe. You can see there are some folks out early. The commute from livermore to dublin and the other way around, looking good. The nimitz freeway off to a nice start with 880 northbound with no major issues. The bay bridge toll plaza is light into San Francisco. Hours after being elected the new president of france, Emmanuel Macron is preparing for his transition into power. Here he is, the youngest bridge president ever the youngest leader since napoleon bonaparte. He won by a large margin and defeating marine le pen. The french here say they are relieved by
Theres a chill. Patchy low clouds lasting not long. 67 go 70s upper 60s, 70s near the bay and upper 70s low 80s inland and tomorrow warmer and after that we go into a cool pattern and you can see low clouds around Santa Cruz San Mateo coast bodega bay water temperature 47. Its the coldest since june 2016 i will have to see if thats colder. San francisco outside the gate 50, the low near the coast are near 46, 40 degrees Half Moon Bay foot every month 49 Half Moon Bay foot every month 4945 in town a lot of great 47 cimarron 48 lafayette 49 a whopper of a low moving into baja its far enough south the Pressure Gradient is relaxing so there will not be much of the waiver breeze. Tomorrow warmer and another system dropping in, 60s and 70s upper 70s and low 80s. 7 01 am it is getting crazy or the same . We have a couple things, steve. Okay. Mentioning traffic is busy if youre driving in san jose, if you drive on the branam lane, if you drive on the branam lane. , west near calle del farara t
At the table is james gelton, Senior Vice President for policy. An operation under the ee rrisa industry. Explain what the Erisa Industry Committee is all about . Eric for sure is an association that represents about 100 of the very largest businesses, each with at least 10,000 u. S. Employees. Those businesses offer comprehensive and Health Retirement benefits to their employees. We represent them on benefits issues. Lets get systems numbers. How Many Employers offer Health Insurance. There are 178 million americans who get Health Insurance through a job. And thats a significant number of folks. How much are their Companies Paying for the premium these days . Whats the average . Well, so, i think its important to note that on average the company pays about 80 of the cost of premium and as well as the Overall Health care costs. So the employees are paying usually 25 of the premiums. That monthly cost that an employee pays, thats only 1 4 of the cost. Take us to large employers and how