Contingency over seas in the near future . You would have to do one of two things. You would either have to grow the force. We believe that the force is 186,000 marines. And elsewhere, we could take services that are deployed in the far east and okonawa. We did that in the combat in iraq. And its only through the past few years we have been able to reestablish our presence in the pacific. We have some options. The other option is we go all in. We activate our reserves and we go and do what needs to be done. We have done that before too. You can do that for a short period of time but as you mentioned, that is not sustainable. What is a short period of time . In your best estimate i dont want to hold you to it. But we are wrestling with Big Decisions about the middle east and Irans Nuclear capableility and there are some in the senate that i believe are tempted by the idea that we can go in and bomb iran and set off what could be a war much bigger than any contingency we have been trying
Whether we would based on a standard allow women to serve in infantry artillery tanks light armory reconnaissance, we formed a task force of volunteers. And we put them together as a unit. They trained up and went to 29 palms and the Warfare Center and did a series of tests. And the tests are complete and it will provide information to inform about whether or not he will request the waiver. And i have not seen all the data. I have seen some of it. And when we first sent volunteer female marines inligsed to determine their ability to complete that course. The number that went they had an about a 36 Completion Rate and again, we are still looking at this. We are we have not made any sort of predecision. So again whatever we do, it is about individual standards. It is about the capableeableility of the unit and that unit becoming better, or at least as good as it is now. So that decision is is going to come. I believe we have ainformation, we are working with the army. And im sure i know
Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.
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