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In the middle of a public hearing last summer, after several insurance companies had proposed double-digit rate increases on their health care plans, Attorney General William Tong posed a series of qu...

In the middle of a public hearing last summer, after several insurance companies had proposed double-digit rate increases on their health care plans, Attorney General William Tong posed a series of questions that summed up the concerns of many who gathered at the state’s Legislative Office Building that day. “My understanding is that an actuarial analysis is undertaken to make sure an insurance company has enough assets to pay liabilities, right? That’s what the analysis shows: ‘Do you h...

Lawmakers frustrated by the high rate request this year say they plan to introduce a bill during the legislative session that begins in January that would change the state’s rate review process to include consumer affordability as a standard.

During that time the senate passed something which might indicate that what joe biden planned to do, he might just get done. and the results have the potential to be big. maybe historically big. so, in the wee hours of the morning, the senate approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution. the measure passed by a 50/49 party vote. only democrats voting. but for this they dont need republicans. now, this was the first step toward final passage of a spending plan that would allow democrats to make mam...

Social benefit bill thats going to go through reconciliation, that tells you that at this moment, the strategy is working. i want to remember one thing that we talked about a lot in late june. remember when they first struck this deal on a bipartisan basis, joe biden came out and made comments echoing nancy pelosi that, well, im not going to sign this unless i get the other bill, too, and republicans were spooked and people said, oh, what a mistake that he made. i talked a couple weeks a go to b...

That need to be taken here for this to move forward and be a success. but, you know, it keeps plodding along and you cant really overstate what a big deal this is, john. >> reporter: brianna, theres lots that could still go wrong. many steps to go in this from process as you guys just indicated. but sometimes in the back and forth we forget about the magnitude of what president biden is trying to accomplish. and what we saw last night in those two votes, first to pass the infrastructure bill in ...

All of this is from private donations and from our own pockets, our own campaign funds. it is all private funds. >> look, when will you return to texas? ultimately you have to. >> absolutely. we know that congress is in session right now, the u.s. senate. they just passed the infrastructure bill, and we know that were dealing with a fierce urgency of now. we want to return to texas, but not until the senate recesses. we are going to be on the hill today advocating for passage of hr-1, the for th...

Life With Ferris: Heading South Soon? Find A Local Connection Monday, February 22, 2021 The Chapin Family, from left, Hamilton, Branden, Nate, Erin, Cozy, Jimmy Jr., Jimmy Sr. and Max With a decade of working for Taylor Swift in Nashville, Jimmy Chapin decided to take some time off at the beach with the megastar’s company sold. His father, Jimmy Chapin, Sr., was already in the Destin area, contemplating purchasing a rental company. The international marketing director of Big Machine Lab...

Rocketing as much as they were. but youre paying for it with your insurance. this wont change. that behavior doesnt change. >> a good point there. back when i made that change, i created the real incentive to where you had skin in the game from dollar one. there was some complaining about it when people were used to that paternalistic system. there was no incentive to shop around and look for bargains. i made an agreement with my employees to help cut costs when they became heavy-lifting consume...

Conglomerations that are trying to pass by congress and sent to the president and hopefully signed obviously thats not what happened in december but the bottom line here is while these folks are in charge of getting this spending bill together, the ultimate signoff will not come from there no matter how senior they are it will come from the leadership it is very hard to imagine the outcome where democrats go for dollar one for the presidents wall after all, theyve come through the bruising polit...