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The commission has authority to do so many and each board member has the authority to do one. These are yes, so how many all together there are 11 from the board of supervisors; right . Correct. And more besides this 11. I believe that we can have up to 22 or 24 is the total we can have. Its [inaudible] but we can have under that and we have under that at this point. Yes. So i think commissioner ow you heard in the report and commissioner smith and last month there were vacancies so you can ask ...

Beginning in 2006 if memory serves it seems of the last three National Review Institute Summits have been what went wrong, not again and god help us last night this one is different but before do anything else on to thank the National Review institute for special Lindsay Grega bole are wonderful staff, the hard work theyve done to make this possible. Thanks. [applause] so why are we in a different cast of mind . Just on a personal note id i dont like to brag about my personal financial circumsta...

Commissioner president caen thank you for your comments we would like to speak about the skweld schedule we hope youll say that. This is the time of the year. Great excellent and also were excited to see that the official notice is out in case you decided to approve the raised at our next meeting instead of the next meeting youre scheduled for. Thank you Enterprise Staff for doing that and making that possible to move that part of the schedule up and then also i wanted to speak a little bit to t...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

Additional to the ucsf dignity house our colleagues from mp c that share a commitment im submit across the board we have achieved the goal of length i didnt stay down closer to the 4 rage and another reduction on the pharmacy side weve talked about jen ice cream were 13 to but we need to do that and as ann marie said the subsets of patient that are very, very expensive if you shave 57 and 10 percent off by not achieving having a better clinic outcome and save thousands of dollars in the episodes...

I try to go back and get these things to keep your mind fresh on this and look at how you apply these principles today. Theres so many people i hate to give you a list and exclude people. National affairs as an article. National review. The think tanks. Cei. I read all that stuff. I like going back to the core and reapplying it to the times. Thank you so much for taking the time. Really appreciate it. You bet. [ applause ] just wanted to invite everybody to cocktails. That are upstairs. Miller p...

There are a few here who are from there as well. Its hard to listen to you talk about ashley. I see people getting emotional in the audience. And im like hold it together. I did the vso mission. I would now start with you because youre most recent and then i would just work out. What attracted you to the mission and who first told you about it . Initially i heard about it with cst2 was the first time i heard about it. And i had wanted to go then and my commander wouldnt let me and my commanders ...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

The form of non v. A. Care and choice care to get this right. If i can make two quick observations. Youre absolutely spot on. First of all we have to force ourselves to make certain decisions about what care can be most efficiently delivered in the community. So weve talked before my example the chairman remembers optometry. Why would we send a veteran 100 miles to get his eyes checked and get some glasses . We can do that anywhere. We wouldnt we routinely be referring that out to the community ...

Mentioned, all of a sudden thats when it became so rotten that we no longer are the people or the people could no longer put up with it. The Pivotal Moment wags when it accepted the deal that was moment was when it accepted the deal that was offered by russia which our european allies were not willing to do. That ignited this situation. Thats what turned the policy type of situation and perhaps the and perhaps the overturn of rotten government through a electoral process into instead the overtur...