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Number one, mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker comes to the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to warrant officer ian fisher of the first the type who was killed on operations in afghanistan on tuesday the fifth of november. It is clear from the tributes paid he was a professional and well respected soldier who made a huge contribution to the army over many years on a number of operational tours. Our thoughts and condolences should be with his family and his friends. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my d...

Expenses if somebody was willing to go to a provider. We have four tiers within the network. And we leveraged the blue cross and blue shield centers of excellence and tiered it even further. We started with quality and added a cost component, so this is some of the results from 2012 and 2013 when we implemented that. About 264 joint replacements or back fusion surgeries in the last 18 months or so. In the middle blue bar, you can see the impact to the cost of someone who chose to go to the highest quality, most cost efficient providers around the country. We saw about a 20 to 30 reduction in c...

Imagine from the title of its organization and this includes more than 3000 Public Schools and agencies and state employers covering more than a million and a half and david is here to tell us about the calpers reference pricing and its impact on health care and the cost as andrea has said that he might been promised that he might. We thank you for coming. Thank you, ed. Okay. Im going to talk about this program for hip replacement and it provides Health Benefits for 1. 1 million members statewide and that includes active and retired state employees including school districts. About a third of...

Absolutely that is a serious concern. And trafficking, and i know t t that that scot can talk more to the trafficking aspect in particular. On the usaid side we have sent a protection adviser on to the adisaster Assistance Response Team to look into exactly this set of issues. We have also been in all of our partnersship so far, ensuring that we do a technical review o those that takes those kinds of issues into account to make sure that nothing that any of our partners are doing could inadvertently be supporting or enailing that. And Going Forward, i think were going to look into more specifi...

Sometimes a thousand dollars a month. I mean, you know, its a wide range. Some people will get subsidies and support and pay less. But theres this group in the middle who make just enough, they get no subsidy, and the price of their premiums for their plans is going up dramatically. But moreover, and this is just what after 36 meetings in my own district their deductibles, their deductibles, they fear, are at a level where unless you have a Catastrophic Health event in your family, you really dont have Health Insurance because youre paying upwards of 12, 15,000 where it was 2 or 3,000. And so ...