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It was at least fair, where the 1 were getting 45 and the bottom 99 were getting 55 . What is the configuration now . I might venture to say, mr. Jeffries, that the 99 are getting zero and the top 1 may be right now at 100 . So im asking for the conference to go and work for america. Not this configuration, but to in the 99 investment america. To be able to take the c. B. C. Budget and look at some of the tax reforms that could be utilized, to look at our job creation, which would include the ma...

Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i though...

Even by ship. At ourake another look federal freight policy, what advice would you give us to develop projects . Since we have approached planning from a regional in our area wed have to, we look at rail we have the northeast corridor. We have a number of spur lines. Most of them come from one location. We have freight coming in primarily from cecil county, maryland, coming down into delaware, spreading back and forth between states. Our Rail Networks are intertwined with our sister states. A re...

Schedule thats all you pay for at the end of the day. Some of the other ones that were concernings is limitations on cost increase, the third item down. The answer is if we get a fee schedule that we believe in and we feel good about it and we have a hard fee schedule at least we know what its going to be cost and theyre not set until the fall so there is no negotiated fee schedule but we will have a sense of what it will be and another question presented in the may document by hss and cap icm a...

Where youre covered and under the risk share you pay the literal premium and get it 180 days. Everything being equal its a cash flow situation. Fair enough . Is the transparency the same in either . Yeah, the transparency of knowing the claims were its identical for those two. Any comments about that in. I just want to add another difference in addition to the fact that the reconciliation on the risk sharing didnt happen until after we do the pricing for last year and reconciling last year we co...

If i can have your attention. I am with the alliance for health reform. Thank you all for coming. Target lowincome population from the Affordable Care act and private insurance using federal medicaid dollars. To do that, they need federal approval in the form of a medicaid waiver. Three states already have their waivers in hand and are operating their new programs. Today we are going to take a look at the experiences of two of those states and a broader look at what some other states are proposi...

Following or looking forward . This is for the 2015 renewal cycle. And actually considering going that way for the 2015. Okay. Commissioner. Just a comment on what commissioner fraser was saying and i would like [inaudible] fully insured, the flex funding. I have some references with the fully insured and might give impression to the members and assuming it comes out and lower Everything Else and this is what shes saying and short term and give impression to the members why didnt you go with thi...

Sane up for the healthier michigan program, and im wondering if you cover cataract surgery. They said the reason ive been asking, ive been trying to get someone to pay for his cataract surgery, and the optometrist told hum if he had the surgery he have normal vision, and he has lost his job and has not been able to drive and this would enable this person to get back and about a contributing member of society and obviously improve their life. So i think as you hear those stories, there are compel...

Need 3. 6 trillion in investment and thats in all a number that includes things other than transportation but we need 3. 6 trillion in investment by the time the decade is through in order to raise it to appropriate levels. Now thats an all in number as i said. The thing is our infrastructure deficit is only going to get worse without action. We cannot meet the needs of growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. Over the next generat...

We could find ways to address that and honestly they werent all my ideas. George walker and barbara and others were involved in developing those ideas, democrats and republicans developing those ideas in virginia. Because i believe there are bigger problems within our system and our system is not unique. I think there are problems in systems all over the country. That is why i pushed the study resolution. This was just an incremental change. We change an important piece of the Mental Health pict...