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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...

Importers of the brandname drug. Cbo expects that the fee will probably increase the price of drugs purchased through medicare and the prices of the newly introduced drugs purchased through medicaid and other federal programs by about 1 . Those increases will be in addition to those described above. 1 doesnt sound like a lot, but when we are talking about medications that our seniors need and in many cases are costly, just 1 is significant to them. It may be so significant that they need to make...

Fulltime to parttime. People get moved from fulltime to parttime, they lose a lot of their pay and then they are forced to abort by the allpowerful federal government with coverages they dont need with high deductibles and high cost that they cant use. The 2 medical device tax, which is a great idea, it is forcing our medical Technology Industry overseas, really well thought out tax is extremely punitive and is resulting in the loss of thousands and thousands of american jobs. Yes, that would be...

A schedule crunch. Did i read somewhere this project is 60 Percent Complete . 65 Percent Complete. Complete. With that being said it seems to me the more difficult situations that weve had to deal with are behind us. Definitely excavation is the most challenging component of a job. Thats where you have the least known. We still have challenges with the asbestos thats part of the excavation and were dealing with that with specialists on board and as we get to the build up part definitely reduces ...

And Jessie Larson and bill dillon madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Mr. Chair silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you madam clerk call item one. A hearing on the Planning Department capability to exposure the shortterm rental owners and the Financial Resources for an effective reenforcement. Colleagues ...

Affairs adviser for concerned veterans for america. Joseph violante, National Legislative director of disabled american veterans. Mr. Bill raush who is missing in action right now. Or awol. Political director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and carlos fuentes, senior legislative associate for the veterans of foreign wars. Well start with you, mr. Butler. Chairman, Ranking Member blumenthal, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of our national commander, michael ham...

Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blu...

My perspective is from this point of view. You are the custodians of the crown jewel of San Francisco, which is the largest park in San Francisco. We have 40 probably within chestnut street, 40 restaurants. We have restaurants all over the city. Im all in favor of commerce. I believe im in business myself here in San Francisco. But as custodians of the crown jewel of San Francisco, and custodians of one of the finest views in San Francisco, i dont understand why we need another restaurant. Anoth...