New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different Things out there, and cybersecurity. But sometimes it doesnt make all the news, but the subcommittees been very, very active. Host and were going to talk about some of those issues in this edition of the communicators, but i wanted to ask you about the fcc. Brand new fcc, five be members all coming to see your committee, potentially, in december. Is that correct . Guest correct. Host whats the importance of having all five . Guest well, again, the fccs so important to the industry and to the co
Instead of seeing you went to the emergency room. This is not a typical example in this room, but i personally can think of many times when i wanted to see my primary care physician and there was inadequate and available for weeks. Your only option is the emergency room. What would it run in your case . Did she make the case, the system set up wrong case for her . We were available. Broken seven days a week. The weekend of christmas was my weekend to work. We saw 95 patients that weekend. Work seven days a week. We have access to imaging and most of her primary care product is and specialists have that now is a service giving up from studies that decreases the cost of care bulleted to those of extended hours by about 10 . But it really has to be incentivized for what were doing in terms of creating a tepid economic model that is about access that works. In this situation, the patient just wasnt used to it. She caught a friend of hers and said what do you do . In the same thing may have
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