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In the Company Health care plan we have about 85,000 eligible associates. The rest of our associates are represented under collective bargaining agreements and their benefit plans are provided through other funds. So where we innovate and where we try new things really within the company plan, and thats where the target Pricing Initiative is today. So thats where ill focus our discussion for this afternoon. Mainly, we operated Grocery Retail centers throughout the country, but we also have distribution centers, fuel centers, manufacturing centers, fine jewelry stores. Usually get a few eyebrow...

Because we did that with natural gas. You will see that we are going to be looking at that from will and combined naturalgas and oil wells while. But that that is not about different regional issues. Its about what technologies are available and taking a look at moving forward. That is part of the met than strategy and a Climate Action plan. You will be seeing some white papers, of, but not direct regulation. We will have plenty of time to take a look. We certainly have plenty to do hanahan. I would volunteer that this is properly best left to the states i will you back my time. Thank you. Tha...

Diabetes, that hypertension, episodes of newborns and deliveries to those things kinds of differences hold up when you look at sub groups of the bread and butter . The other part of the question, whatever those differences are, what are some of the unique things were what i might be distinguishing that they do versus all of the other providers in the system that they might be able to say, hey, we here to take down the toughest cases in the biggest challengers. Sure. Your mentioning we did a study that compares users and nonusers. That has to control for a wide yes, we understand some of his di...

Subsidies needed to fill in the gaps between the medical care and other social services needed in the community, maybe there ought to be models and programs has a state level that function for the people who were not lucky enough to be in the safety net that the Community Health centers represent. I think it is a very interesting question. We are scratching the surface, especially when it comes to socialng the determinants of health. We know they are there. We are starting to collect more information on them. I think there is a lot of evidence out there in terms of Health Center programs and l...

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...