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Received through medicare and according to dr. Jason fullman and mr. Or dr. David rats are this unelected body will have the unprecedented ability to singlehandedly change the allocation of health care resurgence should medicare spending exceed medical inflation which for the record it consistently does. Dr. Novack what are your views on those ipaa i believe its called the independent payment Advisory Board . As i mentioned earlier its a serious area of concern. For those of us and from those families creating another new layer of bureaucracy making determinations about accessibility suspect in the right direction. I would add i think there is fairly significant bipartisan opposition to the independent advisory lord because of the way its structured. Their decisions effectively have the ability to bypass congress. Do you have evidence that competition and choice is a better way to increase value and reduce costs and the government bureaucracy and experts . I think theres a fair amount
With the Computer Science aspect of it. You, everyone. I recognize the Ranking Member for his questions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to say all of you, your extremelyhas been impressive. , you here and i think that probably put we all sit up here and look and say if i were only that good when i was that age, i would say that for myself , but obviously you all have great opportunities ahead of you for whatever you want to do, and im sure there are parents, teachers out there, you have to be extremely prowled proud of your child here. I taught college before i went to congress, but it is very impressive what you have been able to do, and i encourage you to keep it up. You have put in a lot of hard work. Mr. Morris, he talked about the hours. How many hours do you spend did you spend on first . First season structure was a lot like a sports season. We have our offseason, so we are preparing for our season. Much,hard to estimate how but i would say at least three hours a week, at least
When the Committee Goes to five members. [speaker not understood] the kind of rules and policies regarding all of these reserves. Since the financial policies were in effect a couple of years ago, we really have made a tremendous amount of progress in establishing reserves that have been looked upon very favorably by the rating agencies and though more importantly we will have money available in the next downturn that will keep us on a more steady footing in terms of how much money and it will prevent big cuts and layoffs. So, im available to answer any additional questions and we will definitely be with you on a weekly basis and provide you with updates as they occur. Thank you. Colleagues, any further questions . Thank you very much, ms. Zamuda. And ms. Howard, i know you spoke earlier. We asked you about the kind of impact on everything on the budget outlook. Is there anything else you wanted to add at this point . The thing that i would is add, supervisor, it is early and given the