It is the budget problem overall. As was just said, members of congress do not vote against research. They just let cuts in research happen because of what is now in place, a budget that is constantly taking money away from research and innovation and putting it in the hands of old people, like me, who frankly should not be getting the percentage of revenue that is now coming to our generation. The reason we have the best Research Universities in the world is that, for some 70 years now, the federal government has invested heavily in research, competitively awarded research grants, which go to faculty members at the university of michigan, the university of virginia, harvard, stanford, and all the other great universities in this country that carry out research. What is the result of that research . A Great Innovation system. Economists now acknowledge that 60 or more of u. S. Economic growth over the past few decades is based on innovation. A huge percentage of that innovation is done
Publichealth readiness is a deficit reduction strategy, so why are we squandering those solutions . Residentu know the knows in Congress Knows that there is a way to fix the budget and it involves tax and entitlement reform. We need smart tax and entitlement reform that doesnt undermine public or your medical innovation. To give you just one example, cuts to Prescription Drug reimbursement would undermine innovation. Ascription drugs prevent hospitalizations, alleviate disability and represent only a small fraction of healthcare spending. Developing new medications is a highrisk proposition and it takes both public and is working hard at it. Though,ursement is cut, it undermines the flow of capital necessary to the development of those solutions that word are all waiting for. For sure, sequestration has to go. Now, we look to that conference committee, the Budget Conference Committee to address sequestration and to eliminated and we and the members of our alliance will be speaking to.
That fax machine . That did . Dded yes you can. Described that for me. We work with maximus which is a company that covers personal information. They work in medicaid and many states. They are a very big company that has tough policies. They do it in a bunch of states. The final question i have is the number of enrollees. As a part of your measurement of the success of your exchanges, do you have a cost per enrollee . 100ryland has spent. Ision to build the website that right . About 2000 per enrollee . We have enrolled 295,000 people. Years look over several this is how to get coverage. They previously had coverage. The vast majority of them did not. These are people who have gained coverage since january 1. The individual market is getting access to insurance. Isnt it not a fair measurement . They could have had access previously. No. They couldnt. The vast majority of people in maryland like single adults did not have coverage. Ow they have coverage gr single adults did not have med
The gentleman for his response, mr. Speaker. The question was yes we want to get people back to work. Everybody wants to get people back to work. There is no doubt about that. Hopefully, we would be at full employment. One defines that whether three percent or four percent unemployment which would be transition employment or unemployment. We want everybody back to work. The issue is if we dont get everybody back to work, 192,000 new jobs this past month that is good but not good enough. Is why we have continuing 6. 7 unemployment. My question to the majority assume forif argument that the letter to which he refers is accurate. I dont accept that premise but accepting that premise but the minute with the majority leader be amenable to rather than do what the senate does making a retrospective so that the 3. 5 months that wouldve gone from january 1 or december 29, i suppose, of last year to today and paying that back. Simply extending for five months while people continue to look for em
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