Payment model. And transitioning from a fee for service to a value based reimbursement system. This event was hosted by the National Institute for Healthcare Management foundation. Its about two hours. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chockley. President and ceo of foundation and im just dlieded to welcome you all here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their concern for what rising healthcare costs do to americans. And the need to increase value in our Healthcare System. So each of them will present their own ideas of how to increase value or how they are increasing value in the Healthcare System. A nonprofit nonpartisan organization. And we believe by bringing people together with different perspectives, we can improve healthcare through evidence and collaboration. We have a wonderful audience today. I recognize some of y
I am paul allen in sydney. We have some breaking news right now on south korea. We are awaiting the bok decision. Industrial output for october, down 1. 1 in industrial output month on month. Year for october, down 5. 9 . Expectations were for a continued rebound in industrial output. Not great on year, so news at all for the south korean economy, industrial output had been on the rise of wing to the export of electronics and other items. Have a bit of the damper may be countering some of the opinions that the bank will raise Interest Rates this morning. We will introduce more uncertainty in that decision. Markets seem to have priced it in. We will wait and see what happens when we do get the results of the bank of korea Board Meeting later on. Running ints up and the asiapacific. Lets take a look at new zealand. Off. 3 . The kiwi dollar little changed against the greenback. Trading just getting underway and australia. Not too many stocks online at the moment. We are seeing a little bi
Im Carl Quintanilla post 9, new york stock exchange. What a show. Very busy hour ahead on squawk alley. Exclusive ceos with sanjay mean stitch fix ceo white house preparing for vote on tax reform following yesterdays procedural snag. El ylan mui is on capitol hill. Right now lawmakers are debating and voting on proerm measures the real meat of that vote will not happen until roughly noon. Every republican in the senate overnight did vote to support the tax bill one of the last to get on board was jeff flake of arizona. He put out a statement just recently saying he would have written a different bill, that he does believe lowering the u. S. Corporate rate will help make america more globally competitive. One provision that didnt make it into the bill was president trumps pledge to end the preferential treatment for carried interest that pledge was the victim of the weve been trying to cut carried interest, weve probably tried 25 times. Why not we hit opposition in that big White Buildi
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Welcome assistant secretary of defense from Homeland Defense and Global Security that is a very long title in Lieutenant General Deputy Commander of United States special Operations Command thank you for appearing before us today the hearing comes at an important time or we are witnessing a craze in the proliferation of wmds and terrorist organizations that present a growing threat to National Security. While we are familiar with and concerned by those capabilities of the program we should be mindful of the efforts to expand the chemical and biological weapons capabilities the Washington Post reported that north korea is moving steadily to acquire the machinery that could potentially be used for an advanced bio Weapons Program from factories by the time by laboratory specializing in genetic modification. Similarly isis has demonstrated its ability to develop to use chemical weapons in iraq and syria as spiders flee the region we must be aware of the potential for Technical Knowledge to