Price inflation to the lowest level in 50 years. Premiums for employerbased coverage have been driven down as well. Earlier this month, kaiser reported that this years cost growth is the lowest on record. That, hadprojected premiums ground at the rate we saw over the previous decade, instead of the slower rate of the past four years, employer coverage would be 1800 more today. Thisu are an employer, means it is easier for you to hire workers. If you are an employee, it means you can be keeping more that in your paycheck tomorrow. If you are a taxpayer, it means a healthier economy. Improvements to our Health Delivery system are also having an impact on costs to taxpayers as we spend dollars more wisely. 160 billionyers in spending medical dollars more wisely. In a further example, the Accountable Care Organization Models we are testing through medicare are saving 370 million and counting. At the same time, they are delivering care that is more coordinated to beneficiaries and rewarding
Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan budget act adopted in december included a provision that reduced the cola for working age military retirees by 1 until a retiree reaches the age of 62 at which time retired pay is adjusted to the level it would have been had the cola not been reduced. In a usa today column defending the legislation, congressman ryan explained the provision as follows heres what the new law will do, we make no changes for those currently at or above age 62. This reform affects only younger military retirees. Righ
Host fine, thank you to go ahead. Caller i was calling with reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. I heard people calling and criticizing al sharpton and Jesse Jackson for showing up. But the parents of Michael Brown requested that they come to ferguson. And i think the fact the requested should suffice in a. The other comment i have is that i think its a big deal or good idea that the attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been longstanding issues in ferguson, it is my understanding. But its all over the country. There are too many black young males getting shot and killed by the police. Host let me ask you, what do you think Jesse Jackson and al sharpton, what do they add to the situation and by being there . Con that they are there i guess to console the family, which at this point in time Everybody Needs to console the family. In my opinion, this young man was shot and murdered by the police. I thought it was too much deadly force use. Thats my comme
Addressed this issue. Inocating an amicus role certain cases at the discretion of the court. That seems to me like a reasonable way to increase Public Confidence in the work of the court. The work of the court is necessarily classified, much of it. It is not a secret court. We know the court exists. We know who is on it. It does operate much of the time in a classified environment because information being presented is classified. One weighed to build additional trust is to have an amicus role. That is one that makes sense. They do not have the resources to monitor the things that they are asking nsa and others to do. Almost three years the nsa was clearing data without reasonable suspicion even though the courts had required it. When the new administration came in they realized what was happening, within a week reported it to the courts, and i want to say although there is no contrary advocate on the other done an exemplary job in terms of trying to present contrary arguments. The str
Here because i know we are pressed for time and i only have a brief set of comments to make. I would do this more in the spirit of ginning up the discussion rather than making a formal presentation. My copanelists have done a good job framing the issue and i agree with their perspective. Want to do is to say which military steps i think are needed right now against isil. This is not to suggest this is a complete answer to the question or subject of the panel today. My colleagues have done a much better and fuller job of explaining how to think about a problem. But i want to agree with some of the spirit of saying we have an acute threat right now. Isil is an abomination. Everyoneuggesting that would agree with me here, but i believe we need a fairly concerted military and political strategy, working with what i hope is a new Iraqi Government and National Unity, working with a searing opposition that we have to cultivate, more than we have in the past, and come up with a serious strateg