Theyregoing through doors here. Youhave to have security to escort you in. It is a very sombermood. They got the news like wegot the news that San Francisco mayor died in the overnight hours. I just talked to mysources at the San Francisco Police Department. Thishappened around 11 00 last night. According to intosources the mayor was shopping at the safeway when he collapsed. It went over theradio as a person down, a medical emergency. They rushedto the safeway. When they gotto the safeway thats when they realized that it was the San Francisco mayor, 65 years old. They rushed him to the hospital. Unfortunately he died. Werealso hearing that he died of a heart attack. Again, that issomething that im hearing from my sources with the Police Department. Now, in the overnight hours everybody rushed to the hospital. Thenews was just so swift and horrible that they had an emergency News Conference about 15 minutes ago. The president of the board of supervisor she effectively is now San Franci
Great powers niger youve been warning all along that European Countries that all referendums on leaving the European Union never get to leave the European Union is that what the florence speech is very much i mean look today is a great day for westminster its a great day for the Political Class great day for goldman sachs. International business because effectively what the Prime Minister is saying is were going to stay a full member effectively of the European Union for a further two years and its a two fingers up to the seventeen point four million poorly educated unwashed voters that voted for bracks and casting about the poorly educated but thats what they called thats what theyve told us all the way through weve been told but its stupid were pig ignorant we dont understand the real world and this is the establishment trying to regain control ironic that it wont even be enough as regards your european bureaucrats in the negotiations anyway. Well thats the point isnt it that if she
Mr. Chairman, you have a quorum. Item three is communications, im not aware of any. Item four, board of directors new or old business. Ill make this short my old friend from high school said he knew how to straighten out the Millennium Tower so i would announce it. You let the rest sink and then drill those piles. I talked to mark about that, he said yeah, thats been talked about. But i did promise my friend i would pass on his great idea. Okay. Thats it for communications. Item four, board of directors new under old. Chair nuru good morning directors. Everybody is eager to jump in. laughter item five executive director. Good morning directors. On january 24th, voted to place measure three on the june ballot for this year. The measure will increase the total on toll bridges, excludeing the golden gate bridge, 3 gradually by 2025. As importantly, 5 million in annual operations for the Transit Center. If passed by the voters, the money could be available as soon as january 2019. On june
To hospitals and Health Systems. The alliance for Health Policy is hosting this discussion. Particularly since i know tom, i think well have a very lively discussion this morning. So i am actually looking forward to hearing something today and im sure we will hear something quite interesting. So thank you and turn it over to sarah. So, welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. Before we begin, i just want to make a quick note for the date for the next several breakfasts, well be doing them about once a month. The next will be march 29th and well talk about pandemic preparedness. Quite different from todays topic. Today were devilling delving into shifting dynamics in the Health Market. Consolidation and integration. Although there have been headlines about the topic, this is not a new issue in our Health Care System, so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are, and also,
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