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S p was off by close to four points. You could see this morning theres green arrows but we saw this yesterday at this time. Right now the dow futures are up by 53 points by fair value and the nasdaq up by close to 13 points. We had a couple of big stories were watching this morning. We had a flood of economic data. We have import export prices and in global news. Lowering a key rate to 1. 75 and then a Business Update Conference Call coming up at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. The company has come un...

Eligibility. The lack of systemwide training for frontline staff has resulted in veterans receiving dated or misleading information to va continues must contain to improve this process and training to ensure that all veterans who are eligible for the program are given the opportunity to participate. Our second report found a decrease in satisfaction among veterans to receive nonva care. This is a direct result of veterans not being able to find Viable Options in the private sector. The 40mile st...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Affairs adviser for concerned veterans for america. Joseph violante, National Legislative director of disabled american veterans. Mr. Bill raush who is missing in action right now. Or awol. Political director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and carlos fuentes, senior legislative associate for the veterans of foreign wars. Well start with you, mr. Butler. Chairman, Ranking Member blumenthal, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of our national commander, michael ham...

Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blu...

Terms of the monitoring which i do agree is important. I think within a year well probably, you know, given with all respect to the Planning Department and dbi it will take time for people to consider this and get through the process so within a year we wont see a large number but after that well start to see the results. So colleagues no comments or questions well open this up for Public Comment. Ill say that the president of castro Eureka Valley association as well as the executive director of...

Im margaret im the cleveland of inhome consumerism we provide home care to 16 hundred seniors and people with disabilities every year. Were supportive of the program with 21 thousand consumers im delighted to speak on the proposed legislation to allow the addition of inlaw units in the castro and hopefully, if its effective into other areas of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all awaref the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Fran...

Of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all aware of the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. People have done it but you have to have a bunch of money. The inlaws is one solution to increase the h...

Its effective into other areas of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all aware of the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. People have done it but you have to have a bunch of money. The inlaws is...