How do that and travel . Quite frankly the only time i sleep is when i travel. That is how i do it. Thank you for getting us all fired up this morning and ready to take on the topic heard i am honored to be with you today as a pepperdine grad. I came for the beach but i stayed in Southern California because i had such a great experience at this school. I will go over some of the things i learned and user my i was excited to moderate this panel about the future of health care because it is something a think about in my business every single day. I think about value and Health Care Every single minute. The reason is because the lead organization that is helping to transform value on both sides of the economic equation and health care. We have systems and hospitals and settings of care come together to organize to be able to deliver clinically consistent incomes and to help move through the system. On the demand side, a big part of our client base our large purchasers of health care who w
How do that and travel . Quite frankly the only time i sleep is when i travel. That is how i do it. Thank you for getting us all fired up this morning and ready to take on the topic heard i am honored to be with you today as a pepperdine grad. I came for the beach but i stayed in Southern California because i had such a great experience at this school. I will go over some of the things i learned and user my i was excited to moderate this panel about the future of health care because it is something a think about in my business every single day. I think about value and Health Care Every single minute. The reason is because the lead organization that is helping to transform value on both sides of the economic equation and health care. We have systems and hospitals and settings of care come together to organize to be able to deliver clinically consistent incomes and to help move through the system. On the demand side, a big part of our client base our large purchasers of health care who w
You can watch these interviews and others online at cspan. Org. Monday night on the communicators, the longestserving fcc commissioner talked about the major communication issues including the cost of phone services between intimates, the unlimited streaming by internet providers. He is joined by a wall street journal reporter. We should always be evolving, always improving and always attempting to bridge gaps so people can help themselves. This is about enabling individuals to help themselves, providing them with the technological means to get in touch so they can improve. They need to have educational gapsns, to bridge those , says how do we use technology to close them . Announcer whats the communicators at a neglect eastern on cspan 2 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Road to the white house began in iowa. The caucuses which date back to 1972, and then we moved to new hampshire, the quintessential first in the nation primary that has a long and rich history. Now we begin to test the candida
Were ready to reconvene. Senator klobuchar is next. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I talked a little bit about the Health Insurance consolidation and i know we had some quick answers there from both of you. We have a little more luxury of time now, so if you could, finish up, mr. Swedish. I was asking you, remember, about why you needed the merger to achieve some of these cost goals that you have. Thank you for the followup question. What id like to do is maybe describe to you the various products and services that we do offer in terms of how we segment our business. This is a highly segmented industry that then serves a very focused effort in and around the local markets. For instance, we are very active, as is cigna, in the National Marketplace serving Large National accounts. These are very sophisticated highly educated buyers of Health Care Services typically using consultants who they rely upon to make the selections for the health plan that will serve them in the National Mar
Industry that then serves a very focused effort in and around the local markets. For instance, we are very active, as is cigna, in the National Marketplace serving Large National accounts. These are very sophisticated highly educated buyers of Health Care Services typically using consultants who they rely upon to make the selections for the health plan that will serve them in the National Marketplace they reside in. So specific to your question about why come together, well both be better able to serve that Customer Base of National Accounts that highly desires our support as an Administrative Services only support team to what they need in terms of health plan delivery. Whats fascinating when people ask about the Competitive Landscape specific to National Accounts is that there are 130 unique Health Benefit companies serving that selfinsured marketplace. In 2014, there were 30 new companies that began competing in that space. The gao reported in 2014 that there is an average of 11 ins