Services without any copays, nsn coinsurance or deductibles. Say needless to say, thats huge. Y d very good news. Up to 36,000 children in my district with preexisting cond conditions canit no longer be nd denied coverage by health insurers. Its just aan lotsd and lots ofs good news including the new co medicaid enrollees that are being covered. I did have a question. We werute talking about the stas that have expanded medicaid and have not, 26 District Of Columbia have expanded medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care act. T and in those states, medicaid ie seeing great success. Enrollment has increased substantially. And the percentage of population without insurance has declined dramatically. Slavin, sking you, mr. If you have seen studies that compare the decline in the number of uninsured in states id that did and did not expand , i medicaid . Yes, i have seen those stud. Studies. Can you tell me what you yout found . The states that have expanded medicaid, to get back to you o
I only make that point to say we live in an environment where we are mitigating all these problems. As much as i would love to live in a world where we could simply eliminate them or get to a place where we eliminate them, realistically we are going to be dealing with strategies to mitigate these problems. I want to, before we open it up to questions, get a little more specific on what the private sector should be able to do, and maybe steve you or anyone else jump in on this. Theres been a lot of discussion of active defense, of actions that the private sector could do in its own infrastructure, honey pots, et cetera or moving outside of its infrastructure to try to get back its data. Is this part of what youre talking about as greater private sector role in deterrence, and i guess from others, are there reactions to that specifically . First i would like to say there is the playbook for cyber events. Some of these issues are discussed there and in a way that is very evenhanded to add
It is clear that the u. N. Will likely maintain a political presence. They have a critical human rights mop to having role monitoring role, and were seeing right now the centrality of supporting the afghanled voting process. Those are all things that dont cease to be necessary in the wake of any u. S. Drawdown or even eventually, you know, when all troops are, all american troops are out of afghanistan. Because president karzai has not signed the bsa, the president has not made his decisions about what the u. S. Troop presence is going to look like after this year, and i think the u. N. Is waiting to understand that better. Weve seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that have occurred in the last few weeks mission to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan p population. And so that is a challenge. Thank you. Chairman, welcome. And let me ask you, we talk about the fact that we spent a
Thank you. That was extremely helpful and, i think, a fantastic complement to what weve heard. Jan and i have negotiated. What we have decided to do is take one round of several questions, and then give the panel a chance to very briefly close, and then we hope we wont run too far over. There was right there. Teresa, national war college. I wanted to ask a question about the storage. Ambassador pascual, you noted that theres 14 billion cubic meters in ukraine right now. As far as i know, their Storage Capacity is 30 billion. I want to understand the ownership of that storage. Does is there a transparency problem . Is there a part russian ownership problem . In what sense is the storage in ukraine usable, and in what sense does it continue to be county. Okay. And right there. Thank you. Im from russia. What are the u. S. Policy goals in the energy field in ukraine, and what are the instruments to achieve those goals . My question is for ambassador pascual and others who want to comment.
So a series of votes on the house right now. The house working on a number of bills trying to get ready for their august recess including a bill for border security. A bill that changes the law that deals with child immigrants. Also highway and transportation funding. Live house action right now on cspan. A series of votes. This may take a few minutes. While thats going on what we would like to do is catch up on the latest in the conflict in the middle east. We had representative Keith Ellison as our guest on this mornings washington journal. First guess of the morning Keith Ellison, democrat from minnesota, progressive caucus cochair talking about several things. Thanks for having me again. A recent piece in the Washington Post taking a look at the gaza blockade. Headlines to end the gaza blockade to achieve peace what prompted this . As you know, there has been this horrible conflict raging there in the holy land. 2 3 of israelis live under fear of indiscriminate rocket fire. People