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Transcripts For SFGTV 20131107

Raps. Want to invite ann mccloud up who is the president of the hospital. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon and thank you for having me today. As Senior Vice President for hospital, cha represents more than 450 hospitals throughout the entire state of california. Were happy to be here today and we applaud your efforts with the goal of reducing Health Care Cost. I they we striving for that i think we striving for that and your folks said, achieving that aim. Were supportive of that. I want to say that i hope my comments today arent perceived as not being supportive of transparency, and theyre not. I hope they provide you with a balance perspective on what transparency may or may not do. When we talk about the fundamental issue of price in health care and we heard that used interchangeable three throughout the morning, price, cost, price, cost. Theyre two
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Transcripts For SFGTV 20131108

Have a larger burden of determining we only have a certain amount of a patient and we have to make referrals to different providers. Its going to be important to how much it costs so they can keep their own cost down when theyre thinking about making referrals. Its not going to be just patient that needs this information, but its vital for the provider to make that decision Going Forward. Theres a number of different ways of addressing these barriers and its true legislation. One of the first thing that has been tried to address the contract terms and either prohibit gag clauses or previsions in these contracts. California has done this through sp 57 recently. 751 prohibits gag clauses once an individual is in a plan. Sb 57 went onto prevent gag clauses to hhs qualified entities. They prohibit any clauses that would ban it. So they dont require to disclosing to anyone outside the public once youve enrolled in a plan accident so you ....

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Covid Strategy Shift Eludes Congress

Members of Congress and their staff have unsuccessfully pushed the White House to make public its plan for winding down its role in the distribution of Covid vaccines and therapies. ....

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