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New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different...

Signify by saying aye. Those opposed, no. The nos have it. The nos have it roll call. The clerk will report it. Fouriers, nine yeas nays. The drummon from massachusetts is recognized. Thank you mr. Chair. As im reading this rule it appears to me that marshall law rule continues through october 20. As noted in section 5 the calendar of october 20. What we are trying to do is to allow flexibility for these bills to be done. Right, but i wanted to make a couple of points. One i am terribly troubled...

Sustaining forces. But its no time to rest on our laurels. We have many others pressed that now is the time to keep the progress going, keep moving forward and not to expect the trend will continue, but to get ahead of it and keep moving down the path. I think from our good, certainly after the economic downturn, we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs and medicine. Do we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The unchecked prediction as to be 25 of gdp by 2025. Now is the time to impact...

Individual patients through 200,000 visits. So also i would be remiss if i didnt say texas as im sure all of you in this room know, this is not Medicaid Expansion state, so, therefore, only children, the elderly and disabled are still eligible for medicaid. We are also a, on the federal run exchange we did not object to a state exchange. Our marketplace and how people are accessing it, they are coming into our clinic, making appointment or walking in. They meet first with a certified application...

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And the disabled and the chronic conditions, we have got to do more than just keep them covered, we have got to cover and then at th to the cost curv. David blumenthal at commonwealth has done a famous job explaining this. This is what the states are doing that i think its is reay exciting news. Im going to do another session on this. Reforming the Delivery System and reforming the way that we pay for care in this country. We have to treat Health Care Just like a bunch of economic and the words ...

Of the campaignfinance world which many people in this town care about very intensely and other people in the country dont. Other than they see headlines and president obama at the state of the union criticizing the Supreme Court. They got that buzz, but i dont think many people understood it. Lay a candor, i will marker around this discussion. I wont try to get into the discussion. 441 b the parties debate that. Lets talk about the court and how they look a Campaign Finance and what this may me...

Were concerned about problems nd its puzzling to me why these key people didnt talk to you about it. They gave you no hint this is existed . Perhaps i just was not included in certain discussions. What you knew then have spoken ld you up more with regard to rolling out the website on october 1 . Luxury of a ad the time machine to go back and change things, but i cant do that. I understand that. It is a matter did you ask someone at that time for more time . No. Why not . Because my direction was...

Didnt work so well, and what they perceive between now and the end of open Enrollment Period on march 31st as well as what plans theyre making for open enrollment next year which believe it or not is only nine short months away. So let me introduce our speakers now. First of all, Heather Howard is with us. Shes the Program Director of the state Reform Assistance Network thats a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and its dedicated to providing Technical Assistance to states unde...

A high rate of satisfaction, and approximately 28 of Medicare Beneficiaries have chosen to participate in Medicare Advantage. The Affordable Care act, aca has noted in a july 4, 2012 Congress Shall Budget Office report cut 716 billion from medicare, including 308 billion from Medicare Advantage of load. In april of 2010, the medicare act projected that these payment cuts would result in an enrollment decrease in the program in as much as 50 . The aca also required cms effective january 1, 2012, ...