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Rights. Before we start id like to thank the Ranking Member and her staff in preparing for this hearing today. Id also like to thank the chairman of the full committee, senator grassry for his support of the hearing. A few House Keeping matters that i would like to cover before i began, giving open remarks about this hearing, were going to hear from our panel of witnesses who ill introduce in a few minutes. And then well have fiveminute question rounds. I should also note that were expecting an ...

I should know that we an Important Role on the floor this morning, so i, and other members, will likely need to step out briefly to participate. We may briefly paused a hearing proceedings, although sometimes necessary,ot become dependent on the order in which people ask questions. We are here, to discuss the proposed mergers between four of the nations five Largest Health Insurance Companies. In early july of this year, aetna announced it had reached a deal to purchase rival humana. If you year...

Front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the ...

Sexual assault response coordinator. I immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official r...

Infrastructure to deliver that care. Within the v. A. Within the v. A. But where we cant justify that business decision we need to be outsourcing. And just one more thing that follows up with that. In another year you guys are probably going to be gone with the new administration. I hope not, i hope yall stay but youre probably going to be gone. Are you laying into process so that whoever takes your place assuming that youre not brought back that the transition would be seamless and the justific...

Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. ...

What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan t...

Trip sat outside watching the proceedings on video monitors. Several in the eastern iowa group here echoed the testimony that the state has not done enough to get the managed Care Companies ready for medicaid patients on january 1st. And it wasnt just medicaid recipients asking lawmakers to slow the rush. One representativ e of the iowa hospitata association told lawmakers no o oer state thats switched to a managed medicare system has tried to moved so many patients so fast. Live in des moines, ...

Medicare and Medicaid Services came to iowa last week to hear from those affected. And today, they ordered a 60day delay, pushing the rollout to march first. What the feds have said to them is, youre not ready. The Provider Network isnt robust, the transition isnt seamless, they cited several things that iowa is just not ready to go through with this plan. So it just gives us more time, just a little bit more time to make a seamless transition. Transition. Federal regulators told state officials...

Fiduciary duties around investments if you recall a representative of the treasurers did not come and explain how were a part of the large pool of funds and forgetting but still some outstanding questions at least from a board stand point i think that and over attorney will advise us on we may need to address in addition he wanted to you requested of the City Attorney to give the board kind of and then he hope the public who are here in the audience and those who might see that as a late point a...