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Washington dc. This is just over 90 minutes. Thanks for joining us on this sunny august afternoon. I hope everyone had a great view of the eclipse yesterday. Maybe you werent where i was where a big fat cloud came over right at that moment. Pretty cool, hearing all the media act like we were going to go blind if we looked at the sky. I am amber northern, senior vp of research, pleased to have our Live Audience today and cspan covering our event today. I will be welcoming the panel in a minute, i want to thank our partners at the American Federation for china who are with us today. And i am not...

Didnt. I dont think it is good or bad. I am a fan of Medicaid Expansion. A lot of Southern States didnt take it. This will be much more state versus state. When you get into medicaid, it is more about what happens in your state and protecting what you have. Whats happened in the last 25 years due to a disproportionate share of taxes, is that the states have largely cashed out their money. There is not one state that can tell you that. All the money is fake. It is all phantom matches. Now, you are going to get to the point where i dont think they will do a block grant but a per capita cap, beca...

Didnt. I dont think it is good or bad. I am a fan of Medicaid Expansion. A lot of Southern States didnt take it. This will be much more state versus state. When you get into medicaid, it is more about what happens in your state and protecting what you have. Whats happened in the last 25 years due to a disproportionate share of taxes, is that the states have largely cashed out their money. There is not one state that can tell you that. All the money is fake. It is all phantom matches. Now, you are going to get to the point where i dont think they will do a block grant but a per capita cap, beca...

City, we arent that large that we dont really have [inaudible] of San Francisco. And clearly a number of steps have been taken, but they do appear to take an awful long time to get there. Even if we ignore the fact that this is a 2015 report because we did get an update on the current priorities and in 2016, were hoping to hear better information, but the fact that after all the discussion, that saint lukes is just an example. It has taken almost three years in order to bring about one additional bilingual staff member. And was apparently some question that there is community input. So i belie...

Welcome. I will be replacing lynn next week. But the ever efficient Tech Policy Center is already putting me to work. First thing id like to do today is acknowledge our online audience who are with us. I encourage all to share your thoughts and observations using hash tag live at urban. And for online viewers we welcome questions or share comments by e mailing events. Well make a point to use these in the q a portion of the program. Im really excited to be joining the center and i thank you all for joining us today to grapple with important issues surrounding our states fiscal future. The pane...