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Nearly flawless. We talked to members of the Super Bowl Committee and so far the week has been spectacular in terms of how they envisioned this to go. You see what a miraculous fete this is and it has gone smoothly. As expected, when you are here at the super bowl at levis stadium. We have covered a lot of super bowls and lk olympics. This is by far the most security we have seen in terms of Walking Around here. Just in the parking lot and inside the stadium. A lot of armed people, a lot of military dogs and everyone out here reviewing what is happening. A lot of people prepared for that. They...

This is one. Theres to. Is there to. Is it fair to say its Alameda County that are a little. Theres far less competition in the Berkley Oakland area sutter is dominate national in that area as you mentioned the alter is affiliated not through sutter. Also the north bay a lot of sutter hospitals in the north bay so where does blue shield customers go in merry run and. Merry run county. Uhhuh. We have a very detailed plan that basically shows where every theres disruption with a Sutter Medical Group with the alternative group if its only a hospital what the additional hospital is in that region ...

Investigated by the federal trade and they were not allowed to take doctors i was not allowed to join when i finished any residecy as a trained doctor so if youre a brown and tom nolans doctor that takes blue shield and he e you happened to have our office on webster street thats right being next to 0 sutter hospital you as the doctor has specialists at that hospital that you use all the time and their your relationships on how to manage our patience so patients do exist in a volume they have to deal with lots of people especially with a lot of problems if youre a blue shield patient that sees...

Oc w theyve challenged the practices of Sutter Health certain aspects their lack of transparent theyre tying hospitals together and so forth it in the suit they see one the first round no court and sutter is appealing so sutter basically came to us with a new provision theyve never asked for all lawsuits for all customers and trusts and so forth will have to be arrest traded and not permitted to go to open court we thought it was not acceptable and binding our customers 2, 3, 4 a way we didnt think was appropriate so were pushing back against that we you know we are happy to answer more questi...

Report its important for the board to recall some of you werent here that three years ago sutter coming in came in when they wanted to buy up the whole business and put st. Francis and st. Marries out of business when we launched the acos we want different premiums the brown and tom man sutter premium will be higher than that assuming the utilitytion matched better to be safe than sorry but the premiums effect the costs sutter wouldnt allow us we wanted to create real competition we talked about removing sutter because they were driving our costs up so all the work youve done over the last 3 y...