Organization dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Health Policy issues for the policy making community, the media and the surrounding stakeholders in the d. C. Area and beyond. So welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. And before we begin, i just want to make a quick note about the dates for the next several breakfasts. Well be doing them about once a month. The next one will be march 29th, and we will be talking about pandemic preparedness. So quite different from todays topic. Today we are delving into the broad topic of shifting dynamics in the Health Care Market, and were going to take a closer look at the issues around market concentration, consolidation and integration. And although there have been a lot of recent headlines about this topic, this is not a new issue in our health care system, and so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are and als
Also. With the rebalance of asiapacific theater i am having a bit of trouble understanding the new air force plan which would move for air force kc135 tankers from joint harbor had come to the mainland. Given the space and time to my keeping the tankers for deployed in hawaii would make the most sense. Would you like to share some of your perspective on this . Well, i have not yet seen no formal proposal by the air force. As you know, the proposal would have to come through me further my comments. The decision to move any forces that are cocom to pay, or under my command would have to be would have to be authorized by secretary hegel. There will be a dialogue about this. I dont think there will be a lot of perspectives as we look at it. I believe those four airplanes are a result of a braque initiative. What i understand is that there are some maintenance deficiencies that as we look at across service efficiencies that are being forced on us by the that we are being driven to because o
Today, we are pleased to reveal our agenda, expert moderators and some more speakers for our upcoming insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS