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I appreciate what the secretary is doing with the restructuring and coming up with a strong internal audit system. However i must express that i am skeptical about how that is going to work. We have the whistleblower protection act but its not enforced. My concern burst of office we have heard so much testimony in thandthe committee about a cultf secrecy and culture of retaliation, and retaliation is a huge deterrent to hearing the complaints. So my first question is to you we heard theres been ...

Applicable to antiterrorism methods, i dont know. I think all of these models are heavily data driven. So one would need a lot of data. But to the point that these models, these predictive modelling are able to predict things that may relate indirectly to terrorism or criminal activities, the systems are suggesting that we are going that way. Other thoughts on that question . Theres a system in chicago that the Chicago Police department has deployed which both has been touted and criticized, but...

Protected. Fourth amendment, mike, you talked about the balance between government requests and your customers privacy, do you think the government should have a warrant every time it accesses your customers records . Particularly if theyre american customers. Yeah. Certainly in the Law Enforcement context weve advocated for a reform of that that would in effect require a warrant for access to any content regardless of the age to precise location information, other sensitive data. You know, im n...

Collect. The Privacy Policy and what they will do with the information. Are there mechanisms that the private sector used for enforcing the limitations that are particularly effective so the government might learn from . Do you have a review on that . We see this a lot in terms of the data that our customers have, trying to help them implement. Actually they use the same mechanisms and often they have the same weaknesses. A lot of them do not. It costs money and takes time. Are they conducting t...

I think this will move it forward. If youre a patient, you care about your metric. Its wonderful were monitoring if doctors give quit smoking advice to patients. Im not a smoker so it doesnt matter to me. What you want to know is i know somebody whos about to have heart valve surgery. They want to know which doctor in their city performs the most heart valve cities and how many patients are alive a year after that. The fact we cannot answer that for that patient today or tomorrow or even next ye...

The department of Homeland Security to get us to march. That is, in my judgment, a very bad idea for Homeland Security. Because, during that period of a c. R. We cannot engage in new starts. Weve got some Homeland Security priorities that need to be funded now. For example, were back in a president ial election cycle. I cannot hire new secret Service Agents until i get an appropriations bill passed by this congress. Not another c. R. For a couple of months. I cannot continue to fund our enhanced...

That doesnt mean he cant negotiate a framework agreement. I think the president does have authority to negotiate an executive a formal executive agreement with cuba which would provide a framework for cuban guarantees to american investors who voluntarily subscribed to the terms of these arrangements. That agreement could spell out the protections cuba is prepared to offer. It would provide impartial dispute settlement. It could even provide funding for the lets say a claims try tribunal, it cou...

Care they need. I would just add quickly that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is currently reworking its model act on Network Adequacy includes addressing the question of provider directories and holding 2 1 2 hours of Conference Calls every week which i think is unprecedented in my experience. The state regulators who are ultimately responsible for this are very aware that there is an issue here that needs to be addressed. Commercial alert. The alliance will be holding webin...

Include the opt out clause within the next ten days . Has any insurer participating in the 2015 Affordable Care act exchanges expressed any concern at any time to anyone to your knowledge in the executive branch regarding the lack of an appropriation of funds to make cost sharing reduction payment  you made this comment about tortured scoring. Lets go through it very quickly. Isnt it true that the Affordable Careuw act received revenue in years in which it was paying nothing out which allowed i...

Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only t...