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Good morning and thank you for coming. Welcome to this session which is a joint session of the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Institute of government. Were going to talk about the results of a fivestate study on how competition is working in the Affordable Care act marketplaces and what we might learn from this study and how we think about competition in the marketplaces Going Forward. And to officially open us up, i welcome my colleague, richard nathan, from the Rockefeller Institute, to the platform. Thank you, alice. I dont work at brookings so maybe i shouldnt welcome people, bu...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three y...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three y...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three y...

Focused on the future and how we can Work Together to create a better, brighter healthier one for the Healthcare System rather than on rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward, we must not lose sight of where we started. Years ago, next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran named barry coates who spoke about waiting almost a year for care at the department of Veterans Affairs facility of south carolina. He was finally seen long after he should have been. He was diagnosed for colon cancer that had spread to his liver and to his lungs. ...