Logistics providers and requires suspect and ill legitimate products il legitimate products to be appropriately apy handled. Ike like to thank senator harkin and senator alexander for their leadership on this bill. Id especially like to recognize senator bennet who has been a Strong Partner throughout the crafting of this legislation. For more than a year weve worked on this Bipartisan Legislation with our colleagues and have finally achieved an important balance with this bill. And i might adhere, madam president , we were told this couldnt be done. We were told this is too difficult. But for a year and a half, we have tackled this objective. Congress has the opportunity today to proactively put in place uniform, workable standards that will allow stakeholders Greater Regulatory certainty and give patients the confidence they deserve in the safety and security of our nations pharmaceutical drug supply chain. Congresss opportunity today are twofold. This is legislation this legislation
With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar
To matter. For everybody we have to address that question. We need to take care of all of our people. I look forward to seeing how the website can be fixed in this hearing today. I look forward to working with my republican colleagues and democratic colleagues to see that we do a constructive job of making this work i would remind all that when we are dealing with Medicare Part d, not something that originated on the side of the aisle, we Work Together to see to it that it worked. Now is an accepted conclusion to a significant problem. That is improved by the Affordable Care act. I thank you for your courtesy. I hope we can work constructively on this matter. The gentleman from michigans time has expired. I would like to introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Our first witness is Cheryl Campbell, senior vp for cgi federal health in compliance program. She was appointed to this position in 2009. She is the driver of strategy and execution for the practice to serve the needs of prov
Any part of the globe that you care to look at. Countries have division. This is marked when it comes to partisan politics. What is in theat balance as all the chatter goes states this is a very attractive but very large elephant. This is a smack down in the middle of southeast asia. They have sort of been poking the elephant to see what noise it will make. Just as long as the offer is there. These people will work out how significant the element is and how and what ways it is useful to. The importance of southeast asia, i clearly agree. Therefore, the japanese Prime Minister has visited eight out of 10 Asian Countries this year. He is planning to visit the remaining two countries. This year is the 40th anniversary of the we will invite all the afghan leaders to japan in december. Engagement with those countries is important. It was unfortunate that the president could not make it. Especially in asia. We really hope that the United States will be able to show sometime in the near futur
Yes. Mr. Lau. Yes. Did your Companies Meet as a group with h. H. S. Before you started the process . Anyone . Did your Companies Meet together with h. H. S. To discuss the integration . Mr. Lau, go ahead. Yes, the security people from c. M. S. And others have coordinated this. All right. Let me ask each of you a question. How many people in each of your companies have physical access to the database servers storing the enrolling information . We have zero access to the database. Zero. I believe the also zero for our qssi. We have no access to c. M. S. s servers. Ok. Mr. Lau. 2,000 people. 2,000 people have access to the database . Through the key entry of the applications. Ok. You know, under hipaa regs, no one is supposed to have direct access to that database. Ok. Under the Current Technology infrastructure, how many separate servers or virtual servers in the cloud are being used to host and store data for healthcare. Gov . And ms. Campbell, mr. Slavitt, i think thats primarily to yo