The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning were holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to insurance in the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances some of you to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give an idea of how many people are interested in this, senator murray and i invited senators who were not on our committee which has about a quarter of the senate is on this committee, to come to a coffee with the five commissioners that we have just completed for an hour. We had 31 senators there. So thats remarkable level of interest. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement then we will introduce our five witnesses, after their testimony senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses questions and we will do it in f
Not be wise after five years of negotiations with among 12 Different Countries, to try to renegotiate the agreement, particularly considering it was reached only as it relates to the argument he is making about deep concerns that he has for the Financial Wellbeing of the pharmaceutical industry, the fact is in these 12 countries what the pharmaceutical industry had been advocating for our 12 years of Data Protection of their products to ensure generic versions of their drugs cannot be sold for 12 years. They have a legitimate argument in terms of making a case. There should be some protection that they are afforded so they continue to have an incentive to invest in the kind of research and development that would yield new lifesaving medications. So their desire for some protection is reasonable. What they have suggested is that peri of protectiono should alsod partnership. The agreement is in place an effective standard of eight years among the tpp member theons, and so pharmaceutical
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