Carolina, texas, kentucky, maryland and West Virginia plus an overview report on the region. Next month, we will publish reports on northeastern and midwestern states. The researchers who have produced the reports come from a variety of disciplines. Some are political scientists, economists, sociologists, Public Health specialists and some of many other nationalities, i suppose. All of them have a deep understanding of the states they are studying, because they live in these states and have studied the states for many years. They share a deep interest in understanding and documenting the changes produced by the aca. Some of you know, conducting Field Research by coordinating longtime tradition at the Rockefeller Institute. We have studies, welfare reform, medicaid and many othernnational incentives. The studies vary a lot. A few basic elements are found in all of them. Yp8n first, they focus on implementation, on how state and local bureaucracies and private organizations put the new r
Demographics, another factor influences state responses to a. C. A. Just as the issue of Medicaid Expansion reflect issues. State experiences also tell us there is more to the equags than just politics. What is notable in our Field Research is how market and demographic forces have shaped state level deliberations and action. When the a. C. A. Was signed into law, a number of states signaled their intonet create their own state operated exchanges. It is safe to say that the conventional wisdom held that the federal exchange would be a fallback rather than a default choice and the states would actively pursue exchanges. We know this has not come to pass. As our Field Research con firms, much of this was for partisan reasons. There were other factors at stake that proved to be a real world test for this new policy design. For some states like West Virginia which was one of the first states to authorize planning, analysis and the challenges of developing an i. T. System suggested that aon
And i think it needs really deeper thinking on what it takes to do that. But if countries like egypt or emirates are on board, great. We have seen a lot of volunteers wanting to cross the border and the iranen government has stopped ian government has stopped them. What happened to yazidis really filled every sentiment. But iran would not allow them to come so easily and the kurds seem in iran are not in this picture that people are talking about. But this is a challenge. I think, again, iran will be well advised to have their own strategy to deal with them. But in terms of them crossing the board to help unless they do it illegally, theres no other way that they can. Okay. Yes. You talked about strategy of aircraft supporting someone on the ground. So do you see the kurds doing this not only in the kurdish regions but into regions even reaching to mosul or do you think kurds will not take this step . The kurds will stop short of going into any traditional sunni areas. They cannot do i
Charities. Rivate he said his family had used those when his fighting unsuccessfully against cancer. Questioned by n reporters, said they had used he medically needed provision of the medicaid law. Denied ker initially this, said his father was wrong. His father suggested that he was right. But peaker admitted this continued to oppose expansion of medicaid. I suspect that this opposition will continue. A little more muted now than it had been earlier for a political reasons. One, they are now close to one enrolled in the healthcare exchange. Two, some groups have come support the expansion of medicaid like Florida Medical in the ion that had not past. Thirdly, probably most a big ntly, there was election coming up in florida the likely democratic candidate whom some of you may republican e the governor of florida, is now aggressively pushing the care act and the urrent governor is not responding as aggressively as he i suspect because of these other changes. One other change that is co
When we look at this, what are the kind of things that general allen can do in effect to start to get the tribes to look at this differently, to say, look, our interests are more aligned with this coalition thats being put together than with this group isis. Well, at the National Level i think he will, along with our diplomats, encourage the new Iraqi Government to answer some grievances that both the sunnis and kurds have had for years, actually, since 2004. I think theres some indication that theres reason to believe that could occur. The sunni tribes in anabr. The maliki government was actually, as you might expect them to be, very much against the idea of a National Guard in a al anbar. I think this government may be more open to it. I think that will be one of the lines of effort. Is this something this is for either of you that we can get done in iraq if we dont get buyin from the sunnis . As i said in an earlier question, senator, every campaign makes assumptions. If those supgs