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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...

With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states. Menstruates are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so today well talk about our our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so where we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, what is under discussion, and well talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So, we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Theres on...

Implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty seat, and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately, because of the crazy weather we had in d. C. , trish is not going to be able to get into town, so she will not be with us. But fear not, our three other panelists watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. First, to my left, we have diane rowland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foundation. She was also the inaugural chair of mac pac...

President that were about to hear. Good afternoon. The headline from President Trump today is that hes declaring a National State of emergency under the auspices of two federal mandates. One is the National Emergencies act. The other is the stafford act. Declaring an emergency under the stafford act will allow the president to tap into the fema Disaster Relief fund. A total of 42 billion in that fund right now of which 35 billion would be available. That is the same fund, by the way, that fema uses to address natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, things like that. So the pres...