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Tricia neuman. I wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. You can tweet your questions. You may tweet your comments. For both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on cspan. The hash tag is medicare demos. If you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are not in the room with us, you can find them on our website at w www. Allhealth. Org. Im going to turn this over now to our partner Tricia Neuman who will tell us more about why were here today. Thank you, marilyn. Its great to be here. Before we get started, i just want to congratulate you, marilyn, and sarah dash, wherever you may be, for taking over the helm of the alliance. We miss ed, but its great to see you both new coceos. So welcome. Of course, you have been here for a while. I want to thank all of you for coming here today on behalf of the Kaiser ....
Untouched by our counterterrorism effort. So in the future just recognize that in order to restore deterrence, were going to have to show capability, capacity, and resolve. Recognize this is an International Arms control agreement and not a very good one although there are some advantages, recognize the advantages as well. But its not a Friendship Treaty, and some people have tried to make it into a Friendship Treaty say its worthless. As a Friendship Treaty it would be worthless but its an arms control agreement that fell short of a lot of hopes but its not completely without some merit. We have allies out there. We have allies who want to rally to our side. I dont forget sitting with the king of jordan one day. We were working on his syrian refugee pr ....
Thank you. Can you hear me . Thank you very much. Im going to start off with a disclosure, which i is on my front slide. I want everyone to know i will talk about home based primary care, a house call clinical model for elders and how that led to the independence at home. My disclosure is, my presentation does not involve cms sponsored analyses. Its my responsibility and no review or verification by them. Hopefully, patrick will be okay with it. Next slide. Im going to talk first about the patients that we serve. I would like to do a brief survey of the room. How many people in this room have an elder in their life who is sick and has trouble getting to the Doctors Office . Raise your hand. Looks like more than half the room. Independence at home and homebased primary care is the model of care for those people. 17 years ago, dr. George toller and i came to d. C. And decided to set up a clinical model for care for those who are fra ....
Who discussed the change at a talk hosted by the alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family foundation. This is an hour and a half. Were going to go head and get started. Im marilyn serafini. Im with the alliance for Health Reform. I would like to welcome you to todays briefing on payment and Delivery System reforms in medicare. So today were going to be looking at the evidence behind numerous experiments that are going on across the country to pay medical providers based on quality rather than the quantity of services. I would like to thank our supporter in this event, the Kaiser Family foundation and in particular our longtime partner, Tricia Neuman. I wan ....