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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...

Opportunity. I think theres a lot to what you say, senator, that if we regulate, we do legitimize. Some of todays witnesses have talked about trust and trust is a very important factor particularly with Financial Products and services. So there is that risk. There is a bone in my body that says, i think thats a risk worth taking. And i think its particularly worth taking as we think of these Virtual Currencies as having functions that are a lot like credit cards or debit cards in this respects. Wouldnt you agree that right now, without any form of intervention, without legitimizing it, every b...

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Information, so they know which providers are at or below the Reference Price and you need to arm them with the quality information, how often are these providers performing these procedures . What is their volume, what are their outcomes . It would be really unfair to implement a Reference Price if you arent going to arm them with that kind of information. That goes into the next one, which is consumer education. I think there will be case study examples of how informing your employee population and educating consumers about the price and the quality and that and the correlation between the t...

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...