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In the district. And a onesentence question. Does the work they do in prison, does that count towards medicare . Social security, medicare. No, it does not. There is a statutory prohibition wow. For medicare paying for any Services Provided behind bars. Thst also a statutory provision that if youre on parole or probation, you cannot receive medicare benefit. On the medicaid side, theres something known as the inmate exception, which goes back again to the original finding of medicaid, which states if youre an inmate of a Public Institution as the exact statutory language, you cannot receive me...

To treat. The challenge has been the Regulatory Framework in a postAffordable Care act world that limits our treatment. I want to make it clear that this is a bipartisan issue. Governor perry, governor deal of georgia, theyve been going out and promoting treatment of criminogen criminogenic behavior rather than incarceration. What changes is states who have enrolled in the Affordable Care act is to scale this at a level a state governor cannot necessarily do. Thank you very much. Well turn next to debra rowe. Thank you, ed. All right. Good afternoon. During my i witnessed the disheartening mal...

They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you rece...

The Extremist Group Islamic State. You can talk about how you is nk the fight against isis going, give call it a republican or democrat line you can also cut up with us in all your favourite social media like twitter, facebook or emails. Monday morning to you. He talked about this new us Troop Deployment. What hasnt changed is our troops are not engaged in combat. Taking for we are Training Centres with Coalition Members. It will allow us to bring in iraqi recruits. Given them proper training, proper equipment and happening with logistics. Close air ovide support , once they close in on what w...

So i think that tension needs to be resolved one way with the other, and i think it needs to be resolved around a more Foreign Policy guidance. The way it works now, lets change, since my day, is we used to sit down with people from the state department usually the deputy secretary, once or twice here and say whats on your mind, what you think of the important countries we should be concentrating on . I hope that when i was undersecretary there was more conversation, but theres no real guidance. And i think that there needs to be. The second thing there needs to be absolutely is a we organizat...