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This is two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Senator whitehouse is next followed by senator young. Senator whitehouse. Thank you, chairman. Lets me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island, which says in rhode island im quoting here we have actually seen exchange premiums decrease in two out of the last three years. Ended that this has saved consumers nearly 220 million since 2012. So, the story on the Affordable Care act in rhode island is a good one. I would a...

Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projection...

Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projection...

That is the discussion we need to be having. Is it fair to say most of the people who are in the waiting list who are develop mentally disabled traumatic brain injured people and those with serious Mental Illness are on medicaid, a different type of population and what has been your findings with the governors with respect to how most of them would like to take care of this population if there are consensus among governors, what is the governor, the legislature to deal with respect to the population. I will say there are exceptions to that rule. How did they do it. And they are focused on thos...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. President , mr. Speaker, honorable members of the supreme court, members of the state legislature and my cabinet, former governors, family and friends, this is the seventh time that ive had the honor to step before this legislature and the people of new jersey to perform one of my duties as governor. Article v, section 1, paragraph 12 of our constitution creates the requirement for the governor to report on the state of the state. As the one person independently elected by all New Jerseyans to State Government, the ...