Case is quite a limitation that you cant get the full picture of what the physician is doing. In doing. In the commercial, private sector we might find a physician expending a great deal of resources in the office, but if you look at total cost of care they are actually quite efficient. The reason is, you reason is, you wont see that without the ability to integrate a combined data source. The healthcare cost, that is why we thought it was so important to contribute data as a multiplayer effort to bring transparency to the private sector market. And that is an interesting example and a couple of levels. Levels. It originally started as an effort to be a tracker and private sector cost trend data and utilization data. As was mentioned, once they got together in pairs started putting the data and they said, we could actually use this for transparency purposes, start to look at quality data. As some of you may know, that is an effort that has been announced and will be deployed. To sum up
Once they get into the system they are happy with the service. Can you speak to the article that is just coming out today and whether or not you would be willing to do an oped piece because i think its important that veterans are not we are definitely headed in the right direction. Yes maam. I actually met with the comptroller general and we were talking about whether or not he should put va on the highrisk list. I encouraged him to and the reason i did that as we are a Health Care System and we are going through a large amount of change right now. During that time and the Organization Goes through a large amount of change we need to make sure that we have the appropriate oversight, the leadership as well as those responsible for it so while i think the va system is absolutely essential to american medicine we trained 70 of u. S. Doctors. We have developed innovations that are critical for american medicine, the first liver transplant, the first implantable pacemaker, nicotine patch an
Can already do with their existing authorities, the nfl mind on that, and what must be the subject of new bargaining which may be more popular with some than others. I also want to be clear the problem of Domestic Violence in is not anal sports problem unique to the nfl. The nfl has made most of the months, bothrecent for shocking and high profile leagues and for the controversial response. All of the professional Sports Leagues represented here today, problem with a athletes or employees who have committed violent criminal acts. All of them. I can give them to you if you try to deny it. Until recently, the leagues good. S have not been there is a long list of players in the nfl, the nba, the nhl, and Major League Baseball who have been charged with and in of domesticonvicted violence and the leagues have nothing in or response. Press has reported that a culture of silence within the leagues often prevents victims from reporting their abuse to Law Enforcement. Change. To there are reas
About how to produce the surveys efficiently and how to recognize the social and Cultural Heritage and how to expand the notion of how the preservation means and also at the state and federal levels and i am going to share some of the things that i have learned at that conference with you at a future date, but in addition, last week, along with the handful of other local government representatives i was invited to attend a training on the federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program and it was helpful to gain a better understanding but also how we as a city and as a commission can help to promote and facilitate use of that and it is certainly timely considering we are at the verge of adopting or the state on the merge of adopting a state historic tax credit and so those certainly will be used in conjunction in the future, and learned a lot about some of the pitfalls that some of states have with having a state credit and a federal credit and hopefully we can learn from some of those exper
County board chair who has supported the street car project all along. It would have affected businesses here along columbia pike at the county Government Office today. He announced that he will make it official today at the county Board Meeting and they just voted on it, 41, by offering a motion to discontinue the street car motion after seeing what happened on november 4 he he cant ignore the election and the fact that voters supported the candidate who made opposition to the street cars central part of his campaign. Now that they plan scrapping the project he and b. W. I. , thurgood marshall, those could be tied or broken. Were not suffering in says the will instead focus on improving the bus systems in the area. I believe that debating the street car issue further would continue discord and dueling facts will not serve our community and will distract us from addressing other pressing issues. And coming up all new at 5 00 well hear from Business Owners in the community that would ha