Let us pray. We thank you, loving god. Is attention of our nation drawn to a raging tragedy. Were torn by aversion of the military years of engagement while compelling narratives unfold in so many in our world. S send your spirit on the people of this peoples house that they judiciously balance seeminglier reconcilable differences. Them to excute their consciousness and judgments with so ity and purity of heart that all might stand before you honestly and trust that you can bring fruits from their labors. N this anniversary of the 9 11 tragedy, may you heal the lives of all immediately impacted by events of that day. And as we as a nation continue toward Greater Peace and security to our world. Day us this day and every and may all that is done. Be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The chair examined the last days proceedings. One, rule o clause one, stands approved. Join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of to the republic for
For them to look at provider directories, the coverage that was talked about and tax season coming up one of the things that will be coming into effect is the shared responsibility fee. Thank you again. Okay, thanks very much, meena. Well turn to dan durham from ahip. Well, good afternoon, thank you, ed and sara. I look forward to talking about where we are in terms of results and expectations and hope to have a lot of good questions and discussion among the Panel Members today. I will focus on health plans top priority, delivering value to consumers. American families want value for the money that they spend on their premium dollars. They want affordable quality coverage and they want choice. The bronze, the pratt numb, tailored networks to prodder provider networks. Health plans are delivering what Consumers Want in a very competitive market. Theyre delivering affordability, value, and choices that meet consumers needs. Health plans are delivering value by negotiating the best price
Understand that dr. Spencer is a hero. That he is doing exactly whats needed to actually bring the epidemic to an end. He is a hero in that he went and did the one thing that we need to do in order to stop more cases from coming not only here but everywhere else. We need to have experienced Health Workers. My understanding is that hes a fellow in International Emergency medicine, which is an extremely good training for Something Like this kind of activity. And the one thing that now we know in these three countries is that we need Health Workers. Theres tremendous work being done, especially by the u. S. And the uk, on building facilities, but its still not clear where the Health Workers are going to come from to provide the treatment, the isolation, the infection and control that we need right now. The epidemic is still growing. Its really hard to get exact numbers on where we are in the three countries, but we know its still growing. And i think any numbers that you might hear, most
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 two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
And later a look at how diversifying americas workforce can be achieved by education and other means. The open Enrollment Period for purchasing Health Insurance on the federal marketplace began this weekend. The alliance for Health Reform recently hosted a discussion on what enrollees can expect and the improvements after last years rollout. This is an hour and a half. Hi, my name is ed lawrence and i want to welcome you to todays program on the Health Insurance marketplaces or exchanges. Some of you may have heard that tomorrow, that is november 15th begins the second open enrollment season for plans offered through the marketplace. That period runs through february 15, far shorter period than the sixmonth open enrollment time that we had last season. We all know that market places had some major problems with aspects of their operations, im sure well hear some about that today as well as hearing about the steps being made to improve that functionality. And we also wanting to look clo