Were getting this going after votes. The house subcommittee will come to order. Brief Opening Statements and then two panels. Welcome all of you for coming. This is the Third Session of congress in which i have introduced legislation to ban the practice of surprise billing. Todays bipartisan hearing represents an initial effort by this committee to finally offer some relief to patients whove been bearing the brunt of a dispute between their insurers and some of their Health Care Providers. For patients, you can take all the right steps in attempting to see that your care network is covered but you may still face big bills. One in seven americans have received a surprise bill as part of receiving care at a hospital that is actually within their Insurance Network. The problem in san antonio, one of the communities that i represent, has been so extensive that jay avola has initiated an entire Television Series called show me your bill. And i think a quick video clip from that adequately d
It steadies the hidden laws that organize our systems from living organisms not only visionary and insightful little so beautifully written im so excited to hear more tonight and before i let him take over just a . Word how we will run things then us signing in the back where books are also available for purchase thanks for being with us tonight and please help me to welcome. [applause] thanks for coming on such a beautiful night. I was warned it could be a sparse audience because of the beautiful weather much i also would enjoy. So actually i think we will read something from the book of like to tie back to the subtitle of the book this is something my publisher put together. Isnt that cute . [laughter] so it is a pretentious subtitle so i will read this little bit and you can see with the book is about a little bit and then i will give a short presentation. This book is about a way of thinking and asking Big Questions. A book about how some of those major challenges and issues rangin
Retail sector is still under pressure. Pandora shares on the rise after activist Investment Firm calling for pandora to consider a sale. Stocks poised to open lower following mondays rally. Futures up 0. 4 as gasoline, medical care and food prices up. April Housing Starts up 6. 6. Well above expectations on a 3. 7 gain. Economy doesnt look too bad this morning, jim. No. A lot of that increase in cpi is gasoline has come up. Thats something that the market likes, which is the craziness of this market. Remember we go to 48 for oil yesterday, and we have an explosion. All the stocks of the companies that do poorly when oil goes higher, but thats all right because oil is meant to be a barometer. We keep telling ourselves that. At a certain point its not a barometer. At a certain point its back to the inflation rate. But at the same time i dont see a lot of strength. I just see a lot of no volume, algorithmic moves in the stock market. Yesterday was one of the worst examples of it because t
Weak tln weakness there. You did see the dax is down by 0. 8 . Losses by more than 1 in germany. The cac is down by 1. 3 . Take a look at the benchmark, tenyear german bund, turning negative, 0. 013 . That comes after pressure on treasuries around the globe yesterday. You saw the u. S. Tenyear, yelled was at its lowest level for sometimes since 2012. That was 1. 6 . This morning, even lower, 1. 586 . When you check out the 30year, 2. 58 . And the nasdaq bass down. And shanghai composite managed to hold on to gains, hang seng was down by 0. 6 . Crude oil looking to decline. Wti. And the brexit vote and the most recent polls, the latest yougov poll now giving the leave campaign a sevenpoint lead if you can believe this over remain. 11 undecided. 4 wont vote. Other polls are also putting leave ahead now. Two icm polls, one online, one by phone, finding outholding 4353 support. Betting aulds on brexit are now narrowing a probability of a vote to stay in the eu fell to 59 . Thats down from
Need to think about direct job creation particularly in some of the communities that have been so hard hit. We could go on for a long time. And we even have questioners waiting, but weve reached our witching hour, and were going to have to quit. I want to thank david and gordon and their absent colleague, david dorn, not only for being with us today but for really doing the kind of indepth work on these issues that needed badly to be done, for having enriched really the country and the worlds understanding of these issues and therefore helping pave the way for policy changes that will help preserve the benefits of globalization. Were all deeply in your debt. We thank you for being with us today. Jared, thanks to you for your comments and policy advice. Thanks to the audience for being here. Meeting adjourned. Thanks very much. Coming up, next a discussion on islamist terrorism in europe. After that a House Transportation Committee hearing on the rising cost of federal Disaster Response