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I want to thank you and kathy for sponsoring this program and for organizing it. I am very pleased to be here, so good morning to all of you. I would like to talk a little bit about the genesis of the high risk list, and efforts associated with helping the agencies navigate their way off the list. When i was at my confirmation hearing, and Congress Asked me what some of my Top Priorities were, in addition to trying to get the federal government on a path, itainable fiscal mention the high risk l...

I want to thank you and kathy for sponsoring this program and for organizing it. I am very pleased to be here, so good morning to all of you. I would like to talk a little bit about the genesis of the high risk list, and efforts associated with helping the agencies navigate their way off the list. When i was at my confirmation hearing, and Congress Asked me what some of my Top Priorities were, in addition to trying to get the federal government on a path, itainable fiscal mention the high risk l...

To the extent you can in the public forum to make sure that they are appropriately addressed and that could be a number of these things. Just to highlight one thing in particular given the nature of how the terrorist threat has evolved, i think it is incumbent upon the federal level to share as much intelligence as we can with state and local Law Enforcement. They do an excellent job at the federal level of detecting investigating and interdicting terrorist threats almost on a weekly if not a da...

This is 40 minutes we are absolutely delighted to be here with you today. And that is candy right over there. Can you stand up . [applause] now its been a few years since ive been a at liberty that we talk about liberty all the time since thats what it represents, liberty and freedom from the snares of the world and the right kind of teaching and the right kind of values for the young paper that people and viewers achieve vital part of the future of the nation. But you know, i do want to acknowl...

We are also here to talk about other youth sport injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends, and concussion research, state policies, and whether the u. S. Department of education should adopt mandates. Every state in the union has a concussion related law on the books. A Sports Injury Program regulation on the books, enforcement enforcement of the issue and compliance is the issue. That is what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be t...

Once they get into the system they are happy with the service. Can you speak to the article that is just coming out today and whether or not you would be willing to do an oped piece because i think its important that veterans are not we are definitely headed in the right direction. Yes maam. I actually met with the comptroller general and we were talking about whether or not he should put va on the highrisk list. I encouraged him to and the reason i did that as we are a Health Care System and we...

Knowing that the upcoming november Enrollment Period is coming for millions of americans, who will be shopping on the exchanges, how prepared are you to take these 28 recommendations and others to assure protection . Yes, maam. Let me start with the 22 technical recommendations. 19 of those have been resolved or mitigated or will be further reviewed prior to open enrollment. So those will be handled. Of the six other recommendations, were in the process of either completing have completed those,...

District of columbia whose decided to expand medicaid. And obviously, if you look at a lot of independent studies, theres noticeable difference in the states that have decided to expand medicaid, in terms of lowering the number of uninsured. Were going to continue to work with those remaining 20 something, and we meet with them on a regular basis to do what we can to encourage folks to expand. By not participating, arent the states leaving billions of federal dollars on the table that could be u...

Last summer he was called to remove dr. Kent brantly back to the United States for treatment. Dr. Walters said the first thing he did was to google dr. Brantly. Little plug for google there. I know we got some [ laughter ] and the first pickture he saw was of kent and his family. Now remember, the decision to move kent back to the United States was controversial. Some worried about bringing the disease to our shores. But what folks like william knew was that we had to make the decisions based no...

Next question, please. If you would like to ask a question you may press star one. Just a moment, please. Thank you for taking the question. It looks like in florida that about one 1000th of the eligible insured population has accepted a plan. Im wondering what you would say to folks to encourage them to keep trying im a particularly not beene who have waiting all those years for insurance that you want to entice to enroll. I would say a couple of things. There is no doubt that particularly the ...