This hearing is about taking one small step. A small step on the big issue that has been locked for seven years, Health Insurance. It is a step Congress Needs to pick by the end of this month. By the end of this month. To the 18 million americans, songwriters and selfemployed farmers, those that dont get their Health Insurance from the government or onthejob committees 18 million by their Health Insurance in the individual market and about half of them have zero Government Support to help buy that insurance. 18 million is only 6 of those who have Health Insurance in america. So thats the individual market. Nearly 300 million have Health Insurance, e. 18 million have the individual market that is 6 of all of the insured and 9 million of the 18 million have no government help to buy their insurance and are the ones hurt by higher premiums and copayments and deductibles. A 35yearold making 48,000 a year in lynchburg would receive no tax benefit to cover her 7,100 a year premiums. 7,100dol
We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a coffee with commissioners that we have completed for an hour and 31 senators were there. That is a remarkable level of we will have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the five witnesses. Ask questionskend in fiveminute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senators. It includes senators with the whitest diversions of abuse. It has a republican majority of only one. Working together during the last two years, we have been able to agree on big steps, big issues, about which we have
Commissioner avalos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar absent commissioner yee. We have quorum. Thank you very much its very important call item 2. All right. The consent calendar teams 2 and 3 are considered route and the staff is prepared to present and my number of items maybe removed im sorry mr. Clerk items 2 and 3 together any staff presentation lets take Public Comment welcome please come on up youll have two minutes. Marina for the Planning Organization to the divisadero on item 3 i want you guys to thinking what 10 east is happening that the mta for 10 years ive personal almost at every meeting saying you need to change the light is as follows on lombard street because people will get killed and not crossing the strts street vision zero is a failure recently a young man 45 years old died because someone ran a red light if there had been the 12 second wait ive requested for the record years this man would not be dead i think that the mta programs are no
All right. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, my apologizes for starting this a few minutes late i want to acknowledge and thank you to the friends at sfgovtv for broadcasting this mark and leo mr. Clerk, any announcements . Can you call the roll. The roll call commissioner avalos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar absent commissioner yee. We have quorum. Thank you very much its very important call item 2. All right. The consent calendar teams 2 and 3 are considered route and the staff is prepared to present and my number of items maybe removed im sorry mr. Clerk items 2 and 3 together any staff presentation lets take Public Comment welcome please come on up youll have two minutes. Marina for the Planning Organization to the divisadero on item 3 i want you guys to thinking what 10 east is happening that the mta for 10 years ive personal almost at every meeting saying you need to change the light is as follows on lombard street because people will get killed an
All right. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, my apologizes for starting this a few minutes late i want to acknowledge and thank you to the friends at sfgovtv for broadcasting this mark and leo mr. Clerk, any announcements . Can you call the roll. The roll call commissioner avalos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar absent commissioner yee. We have quorum. Thank you very much its very important call item 2. All right. The consent calendar teams 2 and 3 are considered route and the staff is prepared to present and my number of items maybe removed im sorry mr. Clerk items 2 and 3 together any staff presentation lets take Public Comment welcome please come on up youll have two minutes. Marina for the Planning Organization to the divisadero on item 3 i want you guys to thinking what 10 east is happening that the mta for 10 years ive personal almost at every meeting saying you need to change the light is as follows on lombard street because people will get killed an