This way. We move on to miami florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wish that we had more shows like this because the country is being bamboozled. I think we have an issue with money in politics and who is funding them. Rather than letting the big Corporations Fund these candidates, the media should research every one of these individuals for their real purpose and with their objectives are so we can see them for who they are. We are buying into whatever they are sending us, and they are buying into the corporations. Host ok. A democrat. Thanks to everybody who called in on this monday morning. Washington journal is back at 7 00 tomorrow. We are going to take you to new york city and the new school, where Hillary Clintons economic speech. We expect her out in a couple of minutes. Scott walker will be out at 6 15 pm eastern time making his formal campaign announcement. We may be on the air prior to 6 15. Look for the governor at 6 15. We now take it to new york for the event wit
Commissions will please come to order. We are holding our second hearings on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here today. Thank you, gentlemen. You have come long distances to be here. We look forward to learning from you. We will each have an Opening Statement and introduce the five governors after almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . Senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday when we had the state Insurance Commissioners here. We had 31 senators, most of them not on the Committee Meet for an hour and at the hearing we had 22 of our 23 Committee Members. So for two consecutive days we have had them focus on a single narrow objective. What can we do in the next couple of weeks . Thats a tall order. The next couple of
Consider friends and to i know to be problesolvers. My request this mmtee this morning is that you do two things. You quickly stabilizthe individual Insurance Market place. And that you undertake a serious effort to Work Together to address the cost of health care. Ande are good times tennessee. R Unemployment Rate is the lowest in history. We became the first state in the nation to offer free clearly college or Technical Schools to all of our citen our efforts per capita are ang the lowest in the country. The crisis of health care and the certainty of its future threatens our atcitize and the ste budget. The primary diffence between and whenennessee now are very young governor led the state more than 30 years ago is that impact the cost of health care has on everything we do. With onlyfinds itself three insurance carriers, offering a ca compliant coverage. In more than 80 percent of counties, citizens have only one insurance option. These limited options provide aubstantialwith cost i
System of the Affordable Care act and change it into a block grant. States would get a set amount whatever they wanted care act, they could go single whatever they wanted in their Health Care System. They would take the dollars and implement a plan similar to the ffordable payer, or they can go a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act particularly the consumer protexases that some folks like. The preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money. Take a look at some of the details offered up by senator graham and well come back to our discussion. We keep medicaid in place as it is today. We try to give more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility to help poor people. One thing about medicaid, is you get a headache you run to the emergency room. I want them to have some ownership. If you smoke thats something that ought to be considere
Concern. They have up slightly this morning. Futures on the dow down 39 points. Perhaps investors have more confidence in President Trump to handle the north korea threat specially after he got china to blink and stop banks from doing business with rogue regime. Also today london blocks uber,ics phone 8 goes on iphone 8 goes on sale. Varney company starts right now. Today im announcing a new executive order i just signed that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea and im very proud to tell you that as you may have just heard moments ago, china, their central bank has told their other banks, massive banking system, to immediately stop doing business with north korea. Ashley words from the president on north korea. A north korea diplomat is hinting Hydrogen Bomb test on the pacific. Stock futures not moving that much on the news. Come in byron york, political correspondent, byron, t