Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
Satellite provider. The nations governors are in washington, d. C. , this week for their annual winter meeting. Discussingnors are efforts by republicans to repeal injury place the Affordable Care act. This is one hour. My name is sarah. I am a senior policy correspondent. I have been covering the healthcare care debate for about seven years and it appears i will be covering it for many more years. Ofm a journalist with plenty job security. We are here to talk to a few healthgovernors about Care Solutions at a moment when there is a lot of potential for change. What they saw, what they think about situations. Ofill do a brief round introductions and let them introduce themselves in opening remarks they are prepared. Me is the former governor of vermont. Next to him, former governor of South Carolina. Former governor of nebraska and all that web my left, haley barker, former governor of mississippi. Thank you for coming to join us here. I will start right here. If you want to kick off w
Health insurer is dramatically cutting its participation in health care exchge leavi consumers in those markets with fewer options. And the company isnt pulling back gradually. Instead, aetna is doing it all at once. The reason . Its running up big losses in markets where patients are sicker than the company they would be. It is another blow to president obamas Signature Health reform law and follows the move of two other major insurers. The move raises a lot of questions about the landmark progra aetna says its cutting aca Exchange Programs by 70 nationally next year. Because after losing 230 million in the Second Quarter that kind of loss is unsustainable. It is a major aboutface fort aetnas ceo who just six months ago said that he p on the excha. Critics say the timing is curious, coming just after the department of justice moved to block aetnas acquisition of huma. Maybe then they were trying to butter up the department of justice to approve their merger with huma. Now, when the go
Health insurer is dramatically cutting its participation in health care exchge leavi consumers in those markets with fewer options. And the company isnt pulling back gradually. Instead, aetna is doing it all at once. The reason . Its running up big losses in markets where patients are sicker than the company they would be. It is another blow to president obamas Signature Health reform law and follows the move of two other major insurers. The move raises a lot of questions about the landmark progra aetna says its cutting aca Exchange Programs by 70 nationally next year. Because after losing 230 million in the Second Quarter that kind of loss is unsustainable. It is a major aboutface fort aetnas ceo who just six months ago said that he p on the excha. Critics say the timing is curious, coming just after the department of justice moved to block aetnas acquisition of huma. Maybe then they were trying to butter up the department of justice to approve their merger with huma. Now, when the go
Health insurer is dramatically cutting its participation in health care exchge leavi consumers in those markets with fewer options. And the company isnt pulling back gradually. Instead, aetna is doing it all at once. The reason . Its running up big losses in markets where patients are sicker than the company they would be. It is another blow to president obamas Signature Health reform law and follows the move of two other major insurers. The move raises a lot of questions about the landmark progra aetna says its cutting aca Exchange Programs by 70 nationally next year. Because after losing 230 million in the Second Quarter that kind of loss is unsustainable. It is a major aboutface fort aetnas ceo who just six months ago said that he p on the excha. Critics say the timing is curious, coming just after the department of justice moved to block aetnas acquisition of huma. Maybe then they were trying to butter up the department of justice to approve their merger with huma. Now, when the go