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Good afternoon. Welcome. Im sarah dash. Im president and coceo of the aligns for health reform. Those of you not familiar with us the aligns is a nonpartisan not for profit attention organization within been around 25 years. Our mission is to inform policy make areas eras and help policy leaders on the most pressing policy issues get you guys the foundations of Health Policy, the evidence and the practice. And today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues that has been making a lot of headlines recently that is the medicate program. Medicaid covers over 70 Milli...

In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty se...

In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty se...

Informsion is to policymakers and policy leaders of the most pressing issues and getting the foundation of Health Policy and the evidence and practice and today we here to talk about one of the most resident policy pressing issues and that is the Medicaid Program. Recent legislation would if it made major changes to the Medicaid Program and the discussion about the policy is not over. It will examine medicaid coverage, access to care and Health Outcomes and what might be next in the states and congress and the administration. And i would like to thank our partner, the Commonwealth Fund and we ...

Dont anticipate issues. They are going to remove the barge away from the tube. [ loud wind in the background ] da, its pretty windy. I hope you can hear me. This is quite an operation. Do we know what this extensive cleanup is going to cost . Reporter yeah. Its going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars according to the coast guard to clean it up. The responsible party will be the barge owner, which is a company being contracted by bart. So bart is not on the hook but the company that bart contracted out to will be on the hook for the cleanup costs. Indeed it will. Okay, da, thanks so much...