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Counting has started in catalonia. The polls closed an hour ago in Regional Elections that are, effectively, a referendum on independence from spain. In fact this election is happening after a referendum in october was declared illegal and the Catalan Government was sacked. Well today is close. This is coming in from the Reuters News Agency as saying after 30 of the votes counted, catalonia the socialist parties are on track for an absolute majority in the regional parliament. Secessionist parties. Turnout has been high. This is spains major newspaper highlighting voters, and many of them coming out and where they went looks crucial to the result. We have seen big keys through the day, these were from early on this morning. Reasonably long waits, completely peaceful throughout. That is worthy of note because what we saw in october, will surely remember, these pictures when the Spanish Police try to stop that referendum on independence going ahead. There were violent clashes became a Ma
Playing hockey. He is not able to join us. Mike will cover some of the points he was going to make. Why theres a call to action to increase value in our Health Care System. Ill start first by introducing each panelist and sit down, and then go on. So ill start with mike, who is one of the nations most highly regarded economists. Really what distinguishes mike, not only is he broil yant on the theory and research. Probably more than any other economist, he understands how markets work. And he leads much of the Health Care Policy work coming out of harvard medical school, he also sits on harvards benefits committee, where he learns firsthand why markets are not always efficient. Is that fair to say . He also serves on cbos panel of health advisers. A member of the Massachusetts Health connecter board of directors and vice chair of medpac. We have the fortune of having him serve on our advisory board. Hes one of the pioneers of value based insurance design. And the go to researcher for me
Administration, cash sunscene, talked about his new book. Representatives from twitter, facebook and google testified before congress tuesday. As to russias influence on the 2016 elections. On wednesday, two hearings, live on cspan3, 9 30 achl eastern the Senate Intelligence committee. At 2 p. M. , hear testimony from sean edgette of twitter and kent and walker, general counsel for google. Watch them live, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. A panel of healthcare policy officials shared their views on lowering costs while trying to maintain quality. Topics included changes in payment models and transitioning from a fee for service to a valuebased reimbursement system. This was hosted foundation. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chalkly. Im delighted to welcome you here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their
Committee. At 2 p. M. , hear testimony from sean edgette of twitter and kent andwalker, general counsel for google. Watch them live, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. A panel of healthcare policy officials shared their views on lowering costs while trying to maintain quality. Topics included changes in payment models and transitioning from a fee for service to a valuebased reimbursement system. This was hosted foundation. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chalkly. Im delighted to welcome you here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their concern for what rising healthcare costs do to americans. And the need to increase value in our Healthcare System. So each of them will present their own ideas of how to increase value or how they are increasing value in the Healthcare System. A nonprofit nonpartisan organiza