Hello everyone. Good morning and thank you for sticking around we are thrilled to have the governor of colorado back for the second year in a row i am an Energy Reporter at politico. We have a limited time so we will have a speed round on a number of topics for governor hogan. Colorado has very ambitious climate goals. Can you outline those for us. Yes i ran for office with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2040. We already had several communities that stepped up with more aggressive goals the first was pueblo, colorado our industrial heartland with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2035 also to cities that have already achieved 100 aspen and now glenwood springs. We look forward to have the statewide story. We have a variety of utility providers and number of municipals, some are leading the way, some are lagging that were looking forward to work with everybody to achieve that. You talked about 100 renewables in just 20 years but the plan you put forward has no enforcement mechanism s
Continue its consideration of hr1628, the American Healthcare act of 2017. As i had committed to each of your members of this committee at the end of our over 12hour plus initial hearing on this topic, i had once again invited expert witnesses who would be available not only to testify with us before today but also on the managers amendment that was submitted last evening to the rules committee. I want to thank the gentlemen from montgomery, texas. Is that spring, kevin . The woodlands. Yes, sir. I want to thank both of you for getting up. Hes use today getting up early. I did a paper route. My early radio days. Except im better dressed. I want to thank both of you for being here. It obviously is necessary for the end of a professional product thats being done. In all seriousness, we appreciate you taking time to testify on this fourpage amendment and to explain thoroughly what it does, why its necessary and more importantly some of the impacts that you believe will be attached to it.
This hearing will come to order. The subject of the hearing today is the state of the Health Insurance markets. I want to thank all the witnesses for your thoughtful testimony for traveling here. Its a beautiful city. You brought beautiful weather by the way. It is not quite as hot and humid as it normally is. I really do appreciate you coming here on a very important subject. Truth of the matter is, the reason i decided to run for the United States senate is because of the health care law. I come from the private sector. Understand marketplaces and i understand what works and what doesnt work, and i was concerned about the harmful effects. It is coming true. The problem that certainly i think all of us have had in evaluating the Patient Protection Affordable Care act is the complexity of the data. There is not just one overall metric that you can point to and say hey, you know, it is not working. There are some metrics, i think some powerful ones. So you know, absent that very simplis
This hearing will come to order. The subject of the hearing today is the state of the Health Insurance markets. I want to thank all the witnesses for your thoughtful testimony for traveling here. Its a beautiful city. You brought beautiful weather by the way. It is not quite as hot and humid as it normally is. I really do appreciate you coming here on a very important subject. Truth of the matter is, the reason i decided to run for the United States senate is because of the health care law. I come from the private sector. Understand marketplaces and i understand what works and what doesnt work, and i was concerned about the harmful effects. It is coming true. The problem that certainly i think all of us have had in evaluating the Patient Protection Affordable Care act is the complexity of the data. There is not just one overall metric that you can point to and say hey, you know, it is not working. There are some metrics, i think some powerful ones. So you know, absent that very simplis
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