we're windier to hear from sylvia burwell live on c-span. -- waiting to hear from sylvia burwell live on c-span. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce nathan aldrich from salem, virginia. >> hello. comings ago, this december, i found fred living inside my head. fred is i gave meaning to my brain tumor that is blocking cerebral spinal fluid down my body. in january of 20 decibels and six. $450,000surance paid to have surgery, radiation and shunt placement to repair the damage fred had done. old -- i was years 22 years old at the time. i had to start playing debt paying for coverage for the interest that would pay for my pre-existing condition. after exhausting cobra through a , i was payingr 55% of my income as an in home support provider for people with disabilities on health care. that included $1203 out of pocket each month for my knuckle at the medication. i was living on a thousand dollars for the entire year. before the formal care act came into effect. since the law has gone into effect, i went from 55% income and a $5,000 deductible to 7.5% my income and a $500 d

with him today we have sylvia burwell, secretary of health and human services.ppointed in 2014, he's been front and center in defending and improving the affordable care act for the obama administration. she's led many organizations in private and public sectors. having served as director of the office of management and budget, president of the wal-mart foundation and chief operating officer of the bill and melinda gates foundation. secretary burwell served on boards of the council on foreign relations, metlife and the university of washington medical center, among others and held many different positions in bill clinton's administration. lastly, before we get started with the third installment of the exit interview series, we'd like to encourage you all to keep your phones out and join us on twitter, facebook, snapchat and instagram, @gupolitics, #exitinterview. please join me in welcoming secretary burwell and mr. dionne to the stage. [applause] mr. dionne: i want to say it's a gate honor, great and intimidating honor to be here tonight. i want to thank the in

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell responded to reporters' questions about the enrollment rates and predicted and increase of people signing up for healthcare coverage. this is about 20 minutes. >>> hello. 11 years ago this coming december i found fred living inside my head. fred is the name i gave to the brain tumor that was blocking the flow of cerebral spinal fluid down my body. in january of 2006 i went down to duke university and my dad's insurance paid $450,000 for me to have surgery, radiation and a shouldn't placement to repair the damage fred had done. when i was 22 years old at the time and after i got out of the hospital i had to start paying for cobra coverage to pay for the insurance to pay for my preexisting conditions. in 2013 after kossing cobra from a former employer from a narcolepsy from my tumor i was paying 54% of my income on healthcare. that included $1203 out-of-pocket each month for my narcolepsy medication. i was living on $8,000 for the entire year before the affordable care act went into effect. since the law has gone into effect i went from 55%

secretary sylvia burwell talks about health care policy and costs at 6:00 p.m. eastern. bobby kennedy's last words before he got off the stage were on to chicago. the next day he was due to go to chicago and meet with the powerful mayor richard daley. tells me there was a 70% or greater chance that his dad would have endorsed bobby kennedy for president during that trip to chicago. author and former boston globe reporter discusses his book bobby kennedy: the making of a liberal icon. >> had he beat richard nixon, america would have been a different place. some of the issues we are revisiting today of racial tension and international discord might be a little bit different if we had tried to address them 50 years ago. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. hillary clinton campaigns with florida u.s. senate candidate patrick murphy was running against marco rubio. this campaign rally was held in coconut creek, florida. ♪ thank you also so much. great to be back in coconut creek. you having fun today? humbled to beand here today with hillary clinton, or country's

thankfulness that i would like o introduce to you the secretary of health and human services, sylvia burwell[applause] secretary burwell: thank you very much, nathan. and i appreciate you joining us this morning. we are quickly approaching an important and momentous date in november as a nation. we have faced what seems like years partisan of misinformation and people talking about it and many of you have spent column interests dissecting it one part or another. in truth, we have been building to this point for four years. i'm talking about november 1, the day that the health insurance marketplace is going to open up for for our fourth open enrollment and that is the opportunity for everyone to sign up for health coverage. and one day, with that day with less than two weeks away, i want to outline our vision and with the marketplace going forward. any conversation that looks ahead should start with a combit of a look back and it is easy to forget where the health insurance market was before the affordable care act. americans with pre-existing conditions, people with diabetes or those who had

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell talked about enrollment rates and the insurance plans available to enrollees. this is 25 minutes. >>> fred is the name i gave to the brain tumor blocking the flow of spinal fluid town my body. in january of 2006 i went down to duke university and my dad's insurance paid $450,000 and we had surgery to repair the damage fred had done. i was 22 years old at the time and after i got out i had to get cobra coverage to keep my insurance to pay for pre-existing conditions. after exhausting cobra i was paying 55% of my income as in home support provider for people with disabilities on health care. that included $1,203 out of pocket each month for my narcolepsy medication. i was living on $8,000 for the entire year before the affordable care act went into effect. since the law has gone into effect i went from 55% of my income and $5,000 deductible to 7% of my income and $500 deductible. i went from living on $8,000 a year to having far greater percentage of my income available to spend as i felt necessary. every year since the first open enrollme

hhs secretary sylvia burwell will talk about health care and costs live at 6:00 p.m.tern we have been getting a close look at presidential battleground states. today, pennsylvania. we talk with terry madonna at franklin and marshall college. then, a conversation with christopher nicholas. ♪ater, mark n host: good morning. it is wednesday, october 20 6, 2016. we are 13 days away from election day. many states this year are making room for high-profile ballot initiatives. invite states, voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana while voters in four other states will vote on whether to expand the use of medical marijuana. thatproponents optimistic election day 2016 could be a turning point for the legal marijuana movement.

sylvia burwell will be talking about and up coming to the health care system. earlier this week am announcing average premium and subsidies sold on the health care website rose 25% compared to 2016. that is at 6:00 eastern on c-span. with this year's supreme court term a month old, we will hear from clarence thomas marking his 25th year on the court. talking about constitution and democracy at the heritage foundation. term a month old, we will hear with the supreme court back in session, a special webpage to help you follow the court. select supreme court near the right-hand top of the page. president, you will see during the trip to chicago. night, larry type discusses his book comes the making of a liberal icon. eatsd bobby kennedy richard nixon the way i think he america would have been a different place i think. some of the issues we are revisiting today of racial and international >> c-span's 2016 coverage continues with the debate in florida congressional race. and international discord might be a little bit of difference if we had tried to address them 5

lauren: president obama secretary of health and human services sylvia burwell to the fourth enrollmentthe controversial obamacare market plan. trying to defend obamacare after the administration said insurance premiums will go up a lot. >> away the system was designed, it was designed when premiums go up, your tax credit goes up. because of the whole idea of the time the tax credits are the subsidies since you are going to pay -- we don't want you to pay more than a percentage of your income. epistasis amateur premium goes up, your subsidy goes out. lauren: the administration expects 13.8 million people to sign up for obamacare next year. that's 1 million more than this year. nicole: finally some good news for veterans. the pentagon suspending efforts to make california national guard troops who served in iraq and afghanistan to pay their enlistment bonuses. defense secretary ash carter has ordered the suspension following a reaction from the public and congress. the announcement is not in the reverse the process but does postpone collection offers of the pentagon and congress look for

tonight, with health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. our focus is on health reform and health care. safe to say, one of the biggest challenges this administration has faced both politically and operationally. why is it such a challenge? when president obama came into office, we were approaching having 50 million people without health insurance at risk of not receiving health care when they needed it. and costs were rising rapidly. a terrible combination and a problem that persisted for years and was only getting worse. why was it so hard to fix? i can tell you a little bit about trying to be part of fixing it in president bill clinton's first administration. we were both there, it's because most have health insurance through employer, medicare, medicaid, and it's really easy for opponent was active government to scare us into thinking that bringing in the 15% who've been left out, mostly, low and modest income workers who don't, and their families, who don't get coverage through their jobs will make our lives worse. now we did the obama

sylvia burwell will talk about the upcoming affordable care act open enrollment.atch live at 10:20 a.m. east n eastern. >>> different approaches, universities are using to deal with sexual harassment and assault on campus. from georgetown university law center, this is just under two hours. >> okay, everybody if we can get start started. i'm going to briefly introduce the folks on the panel and turn it over to them. this panel as you see in your materials is on harassment, abuse and fair process, we have nancy canalupo. we're happy to have nancy back. along with william kidder, who is associate vice president and chief of staff in the office of the president at sonoma state university. they're going to be presenting. their paper is below the surface of the water. sexual harassment by college faculty. we have brian pappas, who is -- he has a complicated title. associate director of the adr program. his paper is abuse of freedom, balancing quality and efficiency in faculty title nine procedures. and then we have kelly bear who is director of the uc dave igs family p

health and human services sent sylvia burwell.retary, thanks for joining us. >> wolf, thanks so much for having me. >> talk about this after of, what, 22% increase what we call the benchmark silver plan for people who use the affordable care act, obama care. why is the price marketed as affordable care act skyrocketing right now? >> it's what the consumer pays when asking a question like that. the consumer and most viewers, 150 million people in the united states have employer insurance. in the last six years, five of those years have seen the slowest growth in premiums that are on record. so for 150 million people, this does not impact them. for all the folks on medicare out there, in terms of that number of about 55 million people on medicare, this does not impact them. for the 70 million in medicaid, it doesn't. for the 11 million in the marketplace, 85% of those folks actually have the tax credits or subsidies that help them, and those subsidies are designed to move as premiums move. so for those folks, they will be insulated

in the evening, sylvia burwell talks about costs. that is live at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> vice president joe biden spoke about the fight against event. his moonshot this was held at the cleveland clinic. [applause] vp biden: thank you very much doctor thank you for your introduction, for your leadership of this incredible institution as well as sponsoring this important summit. it is good to be back in cleveland. although we are not at the clinic, involved with the clinic. every fall the clinic has brought together top ceos, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, doctors, and so many others to ask a simple question. science,nnovation, medicine, and technology transfer in the health care system to develop better care and save lives? i know that question could be asked across the entire health care actor. but i am here to try to answer it as it relates to our fight against cancer. i do not presume to suggest i have all the answers. i have identified all of the problems but i think we have some answers. as every family facing a cancer diagnosis does, our family, t

sylvia burwell gives an update live at 10:20 eastern here on c-span.ing with nancy pelosi, speaking to reporters on capitol hill at 11:30 a.m. watch c-span live coverage of the third debate between hillary clinton and donald trump on wednesday night. our debate preview from the university of nevada las vegas there that 7:30 p.m. eastern. the briefing for the debate studio audiences at 8:30 p.m. eastern and the debate is at 9:30 p.m. eastern. stay with us after the debate for viewer reaction and watch the debate live or on the band using desktop, phone, or tablet at c-span.org. listen to live coverage with the c-span radio app. downloaded from the app store or google play. this weekend, on american history tv on c-span3, saturday evening just before 7:00 eastern, ohio state universities michael benedict talks about the 1866 supreme court case where the court ruled it unconstitutional to try civilians and military court while civilian courts are operating. >> the milligan trial was part , designed toe prove to the public that the danger was real and that

the president meeting with hhs secretary sylvia burwell, they'll have a conference call on the obamacarer, and a lot of what they're addressing are all the penalties through the if young people opt out or don't even bother, it could offs that's going on here including higher premiums and the rest, the tea party patriots, jenny beth martin has been warning about all of this, way back in 2010 when we started talking, she was among those saying if it sounds too good to be true, probably is. now we know that's the case, and those jenny, who are saying, you know, they probably did know a lot of this stuff but wanted to pass and the surprises would come later. what do you think? >> well, i think that of course they knew what was going to happen, we knew what was going to happen. we were opposed to the bill for exactly these kind of things. it would change the quality of health care we have for our doctors, we wouldn't have the same doctors and the prices have come up. we're seeing that happen now, it's exactly what we predicted in 2009 and 2010, remember, the democrats insisted on passing this

. >> in washington wednesday health and human services secretary sylvia matthews burwell said the higher rates are due to insurance companies initially offering rates that were too low because of a lack of data from a previously >> any rate increase people -- gosh, that sounds bad and we need to keep focusing on what consumers are paying. >> it's completely unaffordable. >> reporter: but the words are little comfort to jackie maroney, a widow whose insurance company sent her a letter saying it's leaving the o'brm obamacare marketplace. with fewer choices she's told her rates will rise. >> i'm a widow. i have two kids. it makes it very difficult. >>> it looked like a war zone in cannonball, north dakota where soldiers and police in riot gear barry petersen is there. >> the whole world's watching you nazis! >> reporter: it was tough and it was tense as police moved forward to take over makeshift camps and protesters were detained. it was an unequal fight. police had billy clubs, mace, and weapons. this is the way it's been going. the police have just arrested over here the protesters conti

sylvia burwell will talk about the upcoming affordable care act open enrollment.atch live at 10:20 a.m. east n eastern. >>> different approaches, universities are using to deal with sexual harassment and assault on campus. from georgetown university law center, this is just under two hours. >> okay, everybody if we can get start started. i'm going to briefly introduce the folks on the panel and turn it over to them. this panel as you see in your materials is on harassment, abuse and fair process, we have nancy canalupo. we're happy to have nancy back. along with william kidder, who is associate vice president and chief of staff in the office of the president at sonoma state university. they're going to be presenting. their paper is below the surface of the water. sexual harassment by college faculty. we have brian pappas, who is -- he has a complicated title. associate director of the adr program. his paper is abuse of freedom, balancing quality and efficiency in faculty title nine procedures. and then we have kelly bear who is director of the uc dave igs family p

department of health and human services stresses that most people will not feel this price hike sylvia mathews burwell/health and human services secretary: for the 11 million in the marketplace, 85 percent of those folks actually have the tax credits or the subsidies that help them. and those subsidies are designed to move as premiums moved. so for those folks, they will be insulated from those changes." i'm mary moloney reporting. meterologist sam argier after starting with low clouds around the las vegas valley this morning, the sun has worked out with temperatures in the 70s. we'll stay mostly clear tonight with temperatures dropping into the 50s. wednesday will bring sunshine mixed with a few passing clouds. high temperatures rebound back into the mid to low 80s in las vegas. another pacific storm will be approaching the area on thursday, chance of a few showers later thursday night. the best chance of rain from this system will be friday morning. showers taper friday afternoon with high temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s. the week drier with more sun saturday. sunday will be partly cloudy

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell will discuss why this afternoon at 6:00 eastern live on c-span. >>> while congress is on break until after the november elections, american history tv continues tonight with a look at the civil war and reconstruction. it begins 8:00 eastern with the war in gettysburg. and aou lease sees grant after the war. and peoples's refugee camps. american history tv primetime all this week at 8:00 eastern. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday morning from 9:00 eastern until just after noon -- >> the british empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years. may we still say this was our finest hour. >> live for the 33rd national churchill conference in d.c. focusing on friends and contemporaries. speakers include british historian andrew roberts, author of "masters and commanders." later on saturday at 7:00, texas general commissioner george p. bush, and musician phil collins talk about the spanish mission, the alamo, in austin. >> the memories identify were that this group of people were going. they they were going to d

. >> secretary of health and human services, sylvia burwell, abc news chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. [applause] mr. karl: start with the big news. you got $1.1 billion in zika funding. congress finally got around to passing funding for zika. [applause] secretary burwell: very excited. mr. karl: the first question is, is it enough? you guys had said for a long time that $1.9 billion was absolutely essential to deal with this. is it enough? secretary burwell: we're happy to have the money we have. the additional money we asked for because it was important, part of that money would go towards replacing the money we had to take from ebola, which actually still is something we have to watch in west africa. but right now what we're excited to do is take this money and continue moving forward. on making sure that here in the united states, we are as prepared as we can be. helping states like florida who have local transmission. that means the mosquito is biting people. over 100 people have contracted the disease in florida. making sure we're working on a vaccine which i thin

obamacare expected to grow next year but not by much here's health and human services director sylvia burwell. >> as we look to this new open enrollment period, the marketplace will grow by another million. at the end of open enrollment for 2015 we expect 13.8 million people to have selected a plan. we know it won't be easy but we are confident that americans will choose to enroll when they discover the quality affordable options that are available to them. the president set during the debate over the law, we did not come to see the future, we came to shape it.

obamacare expected to grow next year but not by much here's health and human services director sylvia burwell. >> as we look to this new open enrollment period, the marketplace will grow by another million. at the end of open enrollment for 2015 we expect 13.8 million people to have selected a plan. we know it won't be easy but we are confident that americans will choose to enroll when they discover the quality affordable options that are available to them. the president set during the debate over the law, we did not come to see the future, we came to shape it. the affordable care act has helped to shape a better future. >> in florida's senate race, incumbent republican marco rubio and democratic congressman patrick murphy debated the records in congress. the presidential candidates addressed florida's coastline and gun control legislation. >> good evening, i'm jonathan wall with the university of central florida for this debate between senator marco rubio and democratic congressman patrick murphy. tonight's debate is broadcast by ftp in orlando and political florida. i will be moderating alo

health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell will discuss why this afternoon at 6:00 eastern, live on c-span. >>> while congress is on break until after the november elections, american history tv primetime continues tonight with a look at the civil war and reconstruction. it begins at 8:00 eastern, with the war in gettysburg and euless sees grant, primetime, at 8:00 eastern. >>> after i came up with the idea of reproductive rights, with recent events i heard in the news, i knew i could find information on that and also help me figure out what points i wanted to say about it, and how to form my outline for my piece. >> i don't think i took it a very methodical approach to the process, which i mean you could if you wanted, but i think that really with the piece as dense as this, i would say, it is really just the process of reworking and reworking. so as i was trying to come up with what my actual theme was, i was doing research at the same time. i was coming up with more ideas for what i could film. and you know, i would come up with an idea, okay, that would be a great shot i

thank you, everybody. [ applause ] >>> next up, secretary of health and human services, sylvia burwell and jonathan karl. [ applause ] >> so, secretary burwell, let's start with the big news, you got $1.1 billion in zika funding. congress finally got around to passing funding. [ applause ] >> very excited. >> so, i guess the first question is, is it enough? i mean you guys said for a long time, $1.9 billion was essential to deal with this. is it enough? >> you know, we are happy to have the money we have. the additional money we asked for it because it was important. it would go toward replacing the money we had from ebola, which is still something we have to watch in west africa. right now, what we are excited to do is take this money and continue moving forward on making sure that here in the united states we are as prepared as we can be, helping places like florida with the transmission. a mosquitoe is actually biting people. people have contracted the virus. we are working on a vaccine, which we think is the most promising solution. we are making progress. we have one vaccine in ph

so, let's bring in sylvia mathews burwell secretary of health and human services.oins us from washington. secretary, thank you for being here. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> this is not good news. this is not what is supposed to happen. this is not what president obama said would happen with premiums. he promised premiums would go down. he was pretty unequivocal about that. how did he get this wrong? >> what's important is to focus on what is actually happening to consumers. for the 150 million people that have employer-based care and that's most of the viewers or the 55 million folks in medicare or the 70 million folks in medicaid, that's not what these numbers are about. and hit's important for those 10 million what we know in the last six years they've seen five of the slowest years of growth in their premium in history. so, for people in the employer-based market, their premium growth has actually slowed. >> sure, but this -- >> with regard to the marketplace -- >> wait one second. the selling of obama care to the american public is not for people wh

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell talked about enrollment rates and the insurance plans available to enrollees. this is 25 minutes. >>> fred is the name i gave to the brain tumor blocking the flow of spinal fluid town my body. in january of 2006 i went down to duke university and my dad's insurance paid $450,000 and we had surgery to repair the damage fred had done. i was 22 years old at the time and after i got out i had to get cobra coverage to keep my insurance to pay for pre-existing conditions. after exhausting cobra i was paying 55% of my income as in home support provider for people with disabilities on health care. that included $1,203 out of pocket each month for my narcolepsy medication. i was living on $8,000 for the entire year before the affordable care act went into effect. since the law has gone into effect i went from 55% of my income and $5,000 deductible to 7% of my income and $500 deductible. i went from living on $8,000 a year to having far greater percentage of my income available to spend as i felt necessary. every year since the first open enrollme

hhs secretary sylvia burwell will speak about the increases today live from the georgetown institute and public service. watch at 60 eastern on c-span. supreme court justice clarence thomas is making a rare public appearance today at the heritage foundation. he is expected to talk about the constitution and democracy. watch live at 6:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. the british empire and its commonwealth lost for a thousand years. men will still say this was their finest hour. >> we are by for the 33rd international churchill conference in washington, d.c. focusing on the former british prime ministers reins and contemporaries. speakers include british historian andrew roberts, and later on saturday at seven texas general land office commission george p. bush, state senator josÉ menendez and musician phil collins talk about the spanish mission, the alamo at the 2016 "texas tribune" festival in austin. >> the memories at the time were that this group of people were going a and they knew they were going to die but they went, or they were there. crocker went by there was something very

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell responded to reporters' questions about the enrollmentigning up for healthcare coverage. this is about 20 minutes. >>> hello. 11 years ago this coming december i found fred living inside my head. fred is the name i gave to the brain tumor that was blocking the flow of ceral

sylvia burwell says subsidies will be able to assist with those. we will talk about the projected increases. we want to hear from you in two categories. if you receive insurance under the aca, give us your thoughts on (202) 748-8000. everyone else, (202) 748-8001. if you want to post on our website, our webpages -- you could do our twitter page or post on our facebook page. several of these stories appearing in the paper and in the pages of politico, it says -- obama premiums are set to jump 25% for a certain sector of those who receive their health care plan. it goes on to say that premiums for a crucial category of obama care plans on healthcare.gov will rise by 25% on average next year. that is more than three times larger than this year's price increases. that is from the obama administration on monday. by comparison, average prices for the second cheapest soma level plan, use as a benchmark to determine premium subsidy levels, had increased by just 7.5% on average in the 2016 and 2% in 2015. here to let us know a little bit more on how these i

health and human services secretary of sylvia burwell. nancy pelosi holds a news briefing. then education secretary john king at the national press club at 1:00. melanie campbell will talk about campaign 2016 and efforts to get minority women involved. strategistpublican charlie black previews the host: good morning. it's wednesday, october 19 2016. we show you the view of the thete stage on campus of university of nevada las vegas which becomes the focus of the political universe tonight as it hosts the final presidential debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. among the topics likely to come up are donald trump's repeated attacks on what he calls a rigged election. that's where we will begin today's program. we want to know whether you are