Million. An amount some consider too small to prevent such disasters from happening again. Joining me now is george avalos, Business Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Pg e faced 12 criminal charges. It was found guilty of six. Aside from obstructing an investigation charge, what were some of the other charges they were found guilty of . They were found guilty of a variety of violations of the Pipeline Safety act. These primarily included things such as their preparation, assessing threats and things like that, prioritizing threats, determining how to deal with dangers in the pipelines. The acquittals primarily related to there were six counts in which they were acquitted. Primarily related to Record Keeping issues. Initially, federal prosecutors were seeking nearly 600 million in fines. Then early this month, in a surprise move, they dropped that request to 6 million. Now with this latest verdict, the maximum penalty is 3 million. Why did prosecu
Million. An amount some consider too small to prevent such disasters from happening again. Joining me now is george avalos, Business Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Pg e faced 12 criminal charges. It was found guilty of six. Aside from obstructing an investigation charge, what were some of the other charges they were found guilty of . They were found guilty of a variety of violations of the Pipeline Safety act. These primarily included things such as their preparation, assessing threats and things like that, prioritizing threats, determining how to deal with dangers in the pipelines. The acquittals primarily related to there were six counts in which they were acquitted. Primarily related to Record Keeping issues. Initially, federal prosecutors were seeking nearly 600 million in fines. Then early this month, in a surprise move, they dropped that request to 6 million. Now with this latest verdict, the maximum penalty is 3 million. Why did prosecu
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Of an individual market command i think when individuals have the choice and see the cost scale between the different options, they are willing to make decisions about taking a narrowera narrower set of choices or this particular set of providers because i understand the value tradeoff equation is my expense. That is different than when your employer makes the choice for you. So there are different Market Conditions today which allows more of the kaiser type model to flourish again. One more question. Thank you. I will ask another question. The question is, already talked about patient outcomes. The diabetics improving the Cancer Patients living longer . We have outcomes, the things that we measure. Diabetics are Getting Better in terms of the standard measures. We dont yet have mortality data on that. The ecology area is near where the Measurement Development is earlier. But i have no doubt that patients are healthier. We are seeing results headed in the right direction, but it is ear
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming. Im a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise institute and a columnist at the washington examiner, and i think that youve seen erupt around the country especially this last year a discussion on criminal Justice Reform on over criminalization and all sorts of things we will focus on a specific aspect of that. My thoughts on why i picked this i have libertarian leanings and justice and mercy need to play up. I dont think we will get into a question of are we locking up all the millions of people that we lock up makes our country safer that is a tricky question to debate. Once we put people in prison, are we doing anything to help them or just burning lives. When you having prison sentences that serves a deterrent effect so it serves some good. It keeps criminals off the streets theres some good there. We call these correctional facilities. Are they just making things worse . So given the debate for some extent of criminalization although