price inflation to the lowest level in 50 years. premiums for employer-based coverage have been driven down as well. earlier this month, kaiser reported that this year s cost growth is the lowest on record. that, hadprojected premiums ground at the rate we saw over the previous decade, instead of the slower rate of the past four years, employer coverage would be $1800 more today. thisu are an employer, means it is easier for you to hire workers. if you are an employee, it means you can be keeping more that in your paycheck tomorrow. if you are a taxpayer, it means a healthier economy. improvements to our health delivery system are also having an impact on costs to taxpayers as we spend dollars more wisely. $160 billionyers in spending medical dollars more wisely. in a further example, the accountable care organization models we are testing through medicare are saving $370 million and counting. at the same time, they are delivering care that is more coordinated to beneficiarie
it should happen? i want to go deeper into this question about working with our allies. it is the first thing that comes up in the times editorial. we have got to work with our allies and so forth. of course, it is essential. but we have a really big problem because our allies are divided. especially when it comes to the political strategy. many of them are leading us in a direction that is likely to be disastrous. as you know, we have these two camps. this is apart from the long-running saudi-iranian leadership rivalry. now, within the arab and sunni muslim camp, we have saudi arabia, the uae, egypt, and a few others, one group that has proposed a certain strategy. lumping many islamists into the same category, into the category of terrorists, barring them from politics, media, civil society. there are a lot of things happening. shadi referred to things happening in egypt. a massive campaign of repression. on a smaller scale, also in a number of other countries that i mentio
addressed this issue. inocating an amicus role certain cases at the discretion of the court. that seems to me like a reasonable way to increase public confidence in the work of the court. the work of the court is necessarily classified, much of it. it is not a secret court. we know the court exists. we know who is on it. it does operate much of the time in a classified environment because information being presented is classified. one weighed to build additional trust is to have an amicus role. that is one that makes sense. they do not have the resources to monitor the things that they are asking nsa and others to do. almost three years the nsa was clearing data without reasonable suspicion even though the courts had required it. when the new administration came in they realized what was happening, within a week reported it to the courts, and i want to say although there is no contrary advocate on the other done an exemplary job in terms of trying to present contrary argument
the weapons. it became lucky. obama issued a redline challenge. they brokered a deal in which syria gave up chemical weapons. they can still use chlorine gas and other things not classified officially as weapons. they are terrible and brutal. the syrian civil war led to serious not having chemical weapons. ub. it makes the regime more tolerable from an israeli point of view. as for the alternative, there is a phrase going around they are at the fence. israel holds most of the golan heights. rebels have taken an area known by. someone who might be the free syrian army. the israelis watched this. they are at the fence. the response has been, in secret. try to make contact with everybody. try to be as friendly as we can. you heard about the hospital northern israel? which is a good part of publicity? they are treating wounded people from the syrian civil war? is that an intelligence bonanza opportunity to interview people and send them back in. treat only your favorite peop
here because i know we are pressed for time and i only have a brief set of comments to make. i would do this more in the spirit of ginning up the discussion rather than making a formal presentation. my co-panelists have done a good job framing the issue and i agree with their perspective. want to do is to say which military steps i think are needed right now against isil. this is not to suggest this is a complete answer to the question or subject of the panel today. my colleagues have done a much better and fuller job of explaining how to think about a problem. but i want to agree with some of the spirit of saying we have an acute threat right now. isil is an abomination. everyoneuggesting that would agree with me here, but i believe we need a fairly concerted military and political strategy, working with what i hope is a new iraqi government and national unity, working with a searing opposition that we have to cultivate, more than we have in the past, and come up with a seri