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[inaudible conversations] this airing of the subcommittee will resume. It would have been ten minutes except the senate train broke down. [laughter] we had to walk over the capital. Please proceed. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee. Thank you for revisiting this pressing issue. Changing the culture in the prisons will change the culture and our cities and states. The disproportionate and arbitrary use of solitary confinement is not only immoral but they missed the opportunity to break the cycle of crime. This approach doesnt increase Public Safety and is co...

Continue to have serious concerns with the president s action plan and use of executive authority to circumvent congress. Advocatedget proposal the continuation of this alarming process. There are many other things i could say. In terms of trying to Pay Attention to the request to keep it brief, i will and with this. I incurred you end with this. To help us move trendd in correcting that and help us to get increased resources into this critical part of our nations Water Infrastructure. Inc. You. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I want to thank you for holdi...

Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that marke...

The 10 required benefits. How much variation in his there in benefits Going Forward . We know from the bronze to the silver that has to do with the degree of coverage of premium but in terms of benefits how much variety is that is for the given product so what is that is a representation and across all types of products was the average rate of increase . Spittoons your question after 2014 the variability of benefits, you are correct there is the much lower variability among the level of insurance and deductibles as well as Provider Networks and of formulary. What you will see i think is we are...

Different dynamics. An air tran area. Georgia, a state that has gotten some attention, an urban area like atlanta, you have a lot of different providers, lot of different providers competing, a lot of choice and variations of very competitive marketplace is. For providers as well as for plans. In other parts of the state we may be only insurer and then maybe the only hospital network. And so a lot of the variation for ross has to do with the provider network, the formularies, really with the underlying cost of care which gets automatically reflected in the rate. We cannot lose sight of the fac...