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Disadvantage me. Even if im four times more expensive, you cant charge your members more to go to my hospital than you do other hospitals. This is antitiering preventions in contracts and it prohibits fair competition. We have to do something about this. Could you repeat that for everyone, so if a provider or insurance carrier chargers us more, we cant charge our members more . Thats correct. Not every contract has this prevision, but many of the biggest Hospital Systems in the state have antitiering preventions. They say you cant disadvantage any of my hospitals that you contracted for. They ...

Purposes here, the cpi is not bad because basically you want to measure what are the input prices that providers have to pay to deliver the services and that includes wages and other things that they have to purchase as input. Now, what this slide doesnt show is improving in quality and the mix of patients thats being seen. Theres some evidence that the population is getting sick overtime. Im unable to control over that here. This is an issue that affects us as a station and as a state, and the people thats speaking in this room has a lot of that background and data that you look at. From my p...

We have a lot of values associated with San Francisco where were willing to pay higher wages to workers in our city because we believe in that. How do you think about the differences and maybe its part of a melting pot but i like to get your perspective. We could measure all those differences so we can do analysis that shows differences in prices, how much is due to the cost of living and thats factor prices inputs, but the more general answer is a competitive market, you know, will protect consumers to insure that the services theyre getting are the most efficient and if they have the informa...

Missing what might be the key point. Which is that the Health Care System is broken. We spend more and we get less than virtually every other country. And that Neither Party are really talking about what we do about it. I would argue that our ability as a country to rant and Health Care Spending is going to determine our fiscal future. This is the largest single factor thats driving our debt. Quite literally, Health Spending is bankrupting this country. Different able to get this under control will not have a whole lot of money to spend on anything else. This is the sort of underlying rational...

Associated with San Francisco where were willing to pay higher wages to workers in our city because we believe in that. How do you think about the differences and maybe its part of a melting pot but i like to get your perspective. We could measure all those differences so we can do analysis that shows differences in prices, how much is due to the cost of living and thats factor prices inputs, but the more general answer is a competitive market, you know, will protect consumers to insure that the services theyre getting are the most efficient and if they have the information, the ones that they...