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Employees from using the funds to Purchase Health insurance and 28 of them precluded individuals from using the funds to enroll in healthy San Francisco, the rates have stayed exactly the same, in 2011 and 2012 with respect to those specific restrictions as well. And i think those of us who were not supportive o f the amendment as it passed really believed that it wasnt enough to really make things change, it seems like in that sense, we have been provender to be rightfinger but i do want to ack...

Host how long can that take . Guest you know the regulatory system got a lot better about it because you know cancer, people dont live that long and we dont give up these great discoveries. The agency has been very open about we understand we dont have a lot of time here but if you look in the year to two years and the year for us to develop the trials and then another year for the fda to review it and get it really so its not an obnoxious amount of time compared to therapeutic approval. But we ...

Effectively to a pretty fundamental delusion, the central bank independence. And not those. Second, our concern is that japan is the Third Largest economy in the world. Pursuing what looks like a deliberate policy of driving down the Exchange Rate that would potentially have destabilizing effects. After all, japan is not a deficit country. It is still like a strong external position. How would you want those two concerns with people outside japan and how they feel about what you are doing . [ina...

Theres a lot of robust policy discussions about this and any potential changes but for the time being, or pending any changes, i think our expectation or our understanding is commencing in 2014, again, no with standing the possibility of changes at the federal or local level, employers would simply provide Health Insurance or contribute to the city option, those would be the two principle methods of complying with our local spending requirement. I see. So, talking about the 53 of employers who p...

Affords their workers reduced fee or free enrollment in healthy San Francisco program or for those who are not eligible for healthy San Francisco, a medical reimbursement account and we see that approximately 3 of all the expenditures under the employer spending requirement go toward that city option and then finally the third sort of category or bucket are these Reimbursement Program that is are typically administered by third parttys on behalf of employers and we see that in the range of 6 or ...

Francisco . Yes, going the Health Insurance or contributing to the city option, the contribution tos the city option as has been indicated previously, the pool and the size of the healthy San Francisco problem, excuse me, the healthy San Francisco program is likely to be reduced and consequently, the contributions that employers make to the city option will be routed to medical reimbursement accounts that are administered by the city for individual employees, these are similar to frankly the Hea...

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Contribution tos the city option as has been indicated previously, the pool and the size of the healthy San Francisco problem, excuse me, the healthy San Francisco program is likely to be reduced and consequently, the contributions that employers make to the city option will be routed to medical reimbursement accounts that are administered by the city for individual employees, these are similar to frankly the Health Reimbursement accounts that are used widely today and administered privately, th...

Expenditures as has been alluded to earlier, a number of employers contribute directly to the city option which affords their workers reduced fee or free enrollment in healthy San Francisco program or for those who are not eligible for healthy San Francisco, a medical reimbursement account and we see that approximately 3 of all the expenditures under the employer spending requirement go toward that city option and then finally the third sort of category or bucket are these Reimbursement Program ...

Employers who place restrictions on these accounts, then were talking abthese folks now going the route of insurance or healthy San Francisco . Yes, going the Health Insurance or contributing to the city option, the contribution tos the city option as has been indicated previously, the pool and the size of the healthy San Francisco problem, excuse me, the healthy San Francisco program is likely to be reduced and consequently, the contributions that employers make to the city option will be route...