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Anybody else want go ahead, vern. Just to comment on the general direction, in the surveys we have the privilege of doing with the Kaiser Family foundation and namd we have a series of questions on whats going on with the system reform and Payment System reform and so on and if theres one thing that characterizes Medicaid Programs today it is a focus on what they can do to make their programs better in the sense of achieving Better Outcomes and so on. There are just example examples after, you k...

Pocket. This is for the walmarts, this is for the Koch Brothers that pay your salary and you should be ashamed of yourself. Lets finish. A couple of comment there is. The cost of productivity, hes disagreeing with your figures and the other caller mentioned this was another biggovernment program. Well, i would encourage the gentleman to take a look at the study we put out specifically for the fast Food Industry where labor is 25 to 30 of the costs. And why do people buy fast food . Because its i...

Support. I want to give the congressman a chance to respond. The American People are ned concerned. I think when incidents like what happened in San Bernardino, americans are frightened and they like to their leaders for answers. Ane i think the initial response, my republican colleagues was to go after the refugee program. Thats the panacea, denyingun women and children and old men i and women fromng coming to the United States, who are looking for refuge. That really is not addressing the issu...

And i caught the slightest glimpse which ended soon thereafter. And then finally they said you can go but i asked if i could take a picture. That was far away. Kim and i take a picture . They said no. I said why . Because the other agent from behind said it is National Security zone was not allowed to take that picture. When we moved away he immediately called and made a complaint. He took the agents name and he called the station to make a complaint. I felt like i got a glimpse of what people a...

Theres also a robust literature on Mental Health problems following abortion. These problems include, anxiety, depression, so on number two. State abortion restriction regulations are medically unwarranted. States have a compelling interest in protecting the health of their citizens and they have the authority to do so including state medical boards and departments of health. Historically states have regulated procedures by establishing standards that protect patients from injury and death. The ...

There are a couple of areas that we are clear we need to update. One is the concept of an essential Community Provider. Thats not something that we were really looking at before. Are those now included in your networks theres also just issues in the new environment. Are we applying it to all man e managed care. Do you go out to ppos . Do you go out to others, as well chlts were having weekly calls. In fact, our next one is thursday, july 24 00th at 130 p. M. Mark it on your calendars. Be there. ...

Thi this. Ice forgot about the plan or is not using the plan. It closed its Family Detention Center in texas a couple of years before this got out of hand. What i. C. E. Ended up doing was releasing some of the family members, some of them getting parole status. They have released information on where the unaccompanied juveniles have been resettled so far which i put in the packet. Total of 37,000 of them theyve provided details on with the majority going to a handful of states which are a littl...

Carolina, texas, kentucky, maryland and West Virginia plus an overview report on the region. Next month, we will publish reports on northeastern and midwestern states. The researchers who have produced the reports come from a variety of disciplines. Some are political scientists, economists, sociologists, Public Health specialists and some of many other nationalities, i suppose. All of them have a deep understanding of the states they are studying, because they live in these states and have stud...

Wellversed on. It doesnt occur to me that i have heard much or seen much in terms of complaints on that issue. That one i would have to get back to you on. Joel, do you have something to say about Medicare Advantage . You mentioned it before. I think, again, the Medicare Advantage standards are set for a particular population group, the elderly. To import them directly into the Broader Market place i think would probably not be the best solution. I would certainly look at some of the principles ...

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 ...