Mr. Eisenbrey is right on point with a lot of what he is saying. He mentioned the fact that when the whites fled the city and moved out to the suburbs, the federal government stepped in and assisted them financially. Mr. Tanner, on the other hand, talks about all of the money being spent in the Public School systems, but he failed to point out that a lot of that money is senator cochran the committee will pleased come to order. Today, we review the budget request of the department of defense. We are very pleased to welcome secretary of Defense Ash Carter and secretary of the joint chiefs of staff, general Martin Dempsey of the u. S. Army. This is the final schedule hearing of the year on the 2016 budget request. The subcommittee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment and the impact it has on the department of defense and its planning. We also appreciate the complexity of building the first year 2016 budget request, and we look forward to comments from secretary ca
Defense budget and addressed sequestration and budget challenges posed by syria, r ussia, and iran. This runs about one hour and 50 minutes. If the committee will please come to order. Today, our subcommittee on defense appropriations reviews the budget request of the department of defense. We are very pleased to welcome secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chief of staff general Martin Dempsey of the United States army. This is our final schedule hearing of the year on the 2016 Defense Budget request. The subcommittee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment and the impact it has only department of defense in its planning. We also appreciate the complexity of building the first year 2016 budget request and we look forward to comments from secretary carter and general dempsey on how we can support our men and women in uniform and our National Security interests. We are pleased to recognize dr. Carter on his first appearance before the subcomm
Need a better solution than the one now being considered. Two years ago we saw Congress Reach a twoyear agreement to be bipartisan budget act. Although we preferred a longerterm solution to sequestration, that deal was able to provide dod a measure of stability needed to plan for more than a just one year. Today, i hope we can come together for a longerterm, multiyour agreement that provides the budget stability that we need by locking in budget levels consistent with the president s request. I pledge my support this effort as well as the support of the entire staff of the department of defense. I would like to work with each of you as well as other leaders and members of congress to this end. End. If we are successful, i am if we are successful, i am confident we can build a force of the future that is powerful enough to underwrite our strategy and show resolve to friends and potential foes alike. A force that is equipped with bold new technology and ideas, able to lead in cutting age
In the Company Health care plan we have about 85,000 eligible associates. The rest of our associates are represented under collective bargaining agreements and their benefit plans are provided through other funds. So where we innovate and where we try new things really within the company plan, and thats where the target Pricing Initiative is today. So thats where ill focus our discussion for this afternoon. Mainly, we operated Grocery Retail centers throughout the country, but we also have distribution centers, fuel centers, manufacturing centers, fine jewelry stores. Usually get a few eyebrows that raise a message or restores but we are one of the larger jewelry chains in the country as well. To talk a little bit about what our objectives are with on health care plan, we really focus on trying to keep it simple for 350,000 people to try to understand what we are trying to accomplish with the Health Care Benefits that we provide to them. We really focus on objective. The first one is t
Imagine from the title of its organization and this includes more than 3000 Public Schools and agencies and state employers covering more than a million and a half and david is here to tell us about the calpers reference pricing and its impact on health care and the cost as andrea has said that he might been promised that he might. We thank you for coming. Thank you, ed. Okay. Im going to talk about this program for hip replacement and it provides Health Benefits for 1. 1 million members statewide and that includes active and retired state employees including school districts. About a third of those end up in the preferred provider organizations with Anthem Blue Cross of california and we spent about 7. 75 billion and the impetus for referencebased pricing was also a variety of studies in this includes for Knee Replacements and we looked at cost drivers and it turned out that the osteoarthritis is one of the drivers in about a third of those costs come from hip or Knee Replacements. In