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Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had someth...

Test new models of telehealth without regard to the geographic barriers and some of the other statutory restrictions. We have a number of very interesting telehealth models that are being tested currently including the health link model i mentioned in my testimony. Thank you very much. Senator moran . Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. Thank you for you and senator murray having this hearing. A very important one certainly from a senator from kansas. But really for the country. Let me start with...

When we were forced to leave we didnt orb our children became without any education, without school. So a congregation we care a lot about education as dominican. We start opening kindergartens. So we had 135 children in one of the kindergartens, we handed one of the classes we hand them papers to draw on the paper. Amazingly, most of the children they draw back home their hometowns. They draw some their beds church homes, that they relate back home. When we asked them why did you do that . They...

In Rural Communities, and we think the need is largely met in that program, not only through federal funding, but through state and private sector funding, but we do allow people to come in through our outreach funding to get at the same issue. They could come in for outreach funding or Network Funding for a request in the budget and do the same thing in the sense they can develop a program that seeks to purchase supplies and put them in the communities. The remaining need out there, it can be m...

132 million. These are impressive numbers and keeps us aware of the system here today. To address the first question if you look what the faa tried to do, to shut them down because they didnt have funding, majority of those more contract hours but more faa towers, majority of them were in Rural America. That is one of our biggest concerns about status quo. Thanks for looking out for Rural America. Thank the senator from montana for looking out for Rural America and i think he and i would probabl...

And this event happening the day after with the United Nations calls africa day may 25th each year to celebrate the continents achievements and reflects on its challenges. It also comes on a day where the African Economic outlook was posted today. Wall street journal saying the trend indicates that african economies will return to closely tracking emerging asian ones as the worlds Fastest Growing regions progress is patchy, they write and precarious. East africa writes the wall street journal is...

Of the law. It is just getting underway. I want to give a special thanks for braving the elements and trouble uncertainties to get here. If you decided that staying home was the better part of your valor andd you are watching from cspan, welcome to you too. Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the sy center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on t...

Its well, thats what qualified means, justice alito. It means that, you know, if youre not qualified, youre unqualified. And so, i mean, thats what it means. And so youre just reading the word qualified out of the statute if you read it that way. Qualified is used in the in the lay sense of the term, its not a technical term here. Well, i think well, given the way its defined, its defined as a person who resides in the state. It excludes people out of state. It does that because the statute was ...

It fills in the gaps in the current system. Namely, it expands medicaid to cover more low income adults by establishing raising the eligibility threshold. Just to note. The federal Poverty Level is that 11,000 dollars around 11,000. It also creates a new Health Insurance marketplace, where people can go to shop for and an role in private insurance. Through these marketplaces premiums of these are available to people without access to other coverage, who have incomes between 100 and 400 of the Po...

Every new congress in recent years, the Kaiser Foundation and the alliance have sponsored a series of briefings on a number of the most Important Health policy topics that are at the center of debate in congress. After todays briefing on the Affordable Care act, we will be conducting three more of these primers next month, not next friday, but the two fridays following that, and on wednesday april 1, on medicaid, medicare and healthcare costs respectively. Mark your calendars. We will see you ba...