I should know that we an Important Role on the floor this morning, so i, and other members, will likely need to step out briefly to participate. We may briefly paused a hearing proceedings, although sometimes necessary,ot become dependent on the order in which people ask questions. We are here, to discuss the proposed mergers between four of the nations five Largest Health Insurance Companies. In early july of this year, aetna announced it had reached a deal to purchase rival humana. If you years later, a few months later, at them i now sit sigma. L to purchase the Department Justice is currently reviewing these transactions. The industrys big five will be reduced t the big three. United care, and send, and aetna hem, and aetna. These acquisitions raise the questions is the Product Offerings will impact the market. That antitrust inquiry is whether the combination will lead to a market concentration that make substantially lessen competition. , and thensactions concurrent review, also
Now they regulate what earphones they can use because the league has established a contract with one of the providers and i want him to wear those. This is an ongoing 24hour endeavor. It wants people to emulate him look up to these athletes and they do. And that they can tell you being involved in youth football this is very sad but its true. In some instances, the only positive male role models that many Young Americans today have happened to be professional athletes they see on sundays or at night on television. I think its important to preface that because this is not just a sport thats played on a field three hours at a time. This has deep impact throughout society and there are millions of Young Americans who look up to these players and whatever happens or does not happen has a deep impact on them. For many of them its the only male role model they have unfortunately in many cases where people go wrong. That is why the rate rise case interested me. The situation with mr. Rice inv
Well, this is not a medicare ise because a medicare physician, i guess their very limited and cop strained about what constrained about what they can charge, so i guess its more of a question about private insurance. You want to talk that, lou . Yeah. The question reflects, again, the desire to have greater and Greater Transparency in all aspects of health care, including what providers charge. Two things. First, even though theres no national requirement, i know at least in massachusetts if theres anyone here from massachusetts, there is a new law that requires exactly what you suggest, which is the posting of prices. So thatll be an interesting experiment to see what impact that has. There may be other states, im just not aware of it. Well hear from the Consumer Panel after us, i think what Consumers Want to know is our experience has been what Consumers Want to know is not what the provider charges so much as what do i have to pay, which then relates to what is the charge in relatio
Cayman islands and virgin islands, the amount of profit they attributed to these countries is in some cases 1600 more than the Gross Domestic Product of these countries. This is outright tax avoidance. Im a Small Business owner. I know many Small Business owners pay their taxes legitimately, but some corporations take advantage of these tax havens and tax laws. Specific lit one that really has gotten a lot of attention lately is this inversion process. The fact we know already pharmaceutical companies and Manufacturing Companies have been looking at this, but most recently some Retail Companies like walgreens is in the process of potentially going down this road, which would be a whole new area we havent seen taking advantage of this practice walgreens, if i understand it right, there is an estimate over five years we could lose 4 billion worth of tax revenue if they were to do this practice, which is something that i think the average person would look at as nothing more than thes not
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