The agenda for the most obvious reasons. It is the most populous country in the entire region. For the last four years it has teetered on the brink of political and economic and social collapse. I think it is still in a tenuous phase at this point. And when we talk about adopting or adapting the new silk road concepts to places like egypt there are places where it fits in with the president s attempt to build a second suez canal and to help egypt become a more functional place when it comes to linking parts of the world together. Where i think we may have some differences of views, and we can talk about this is how about the best way for egypt to approach the extremism and terrorism problem. And as we see in the last few weeks, this problem is not only gotten worse, it has actually made things much more difficult in places not only in the signi peninsula but in cairo proper. But this is again not only what type of in collusive Economic Growth we want to try to promote to help the socie
I want to show our mosaic of the pluto system. This has twice the resolution of the previous best global image and its just mouthwatering. The level of detail is spectacular. This image has a resolution of about 2. 2 kilometers per pixel. Just looking at it you can tell as our science team can that pluto has a very complicated story to tell. Pluto has a very interesting history, and theres a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place. I want to stress that. I want to drive it home by showing you this image of higher magnification. If i can go to the next set were going to look at just the northern half of that image. We can easily blow it up even further, and you can see across the northern terrains here which include the north pole, by the way this is a true color image. Essentially true color as your i might see it a whole range of geologic expression. Kathy and bill will be talking about this quite a bit more, so i will not steal their thunder but just
He was the first africanamerican student body president and his law degree from new york university. After law school he spent a month in new orleans playing trumpet and becoming friends with wynton marsalis. Then he worked in a law firm and later served in the u. S. Department of justice and on the staff of the house judiciary committee. He returned to charlotte in 2001 to work in a law firm there and got elected to the Charlotte City council in 2005, and he was reelected in 2007. He was elected the citys mayor in 2009, the youngest person ever to hold that job, and he was confirmed as the 17th transportation secretary in june of 2013 by a vote of 1000 a rare moment of bipartisanship. So much for biography now on to the everpopular process portion of our program. As always, were on the record here. Ive been told our guest may commit news this morning and so youre listening to the following ground rules your listening to the following ground rules is important. As is always the case at
Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.