about technology and chronic conditions as drivers of health care spending and health care costs. we of course are attempting to understand not just the role that these play in contributing to the health care costs and spending issues but also in particular to start to discuss what is actionable, what can we actually do about these things, are there policy initiatives that would address them that would not contravene some of our own goals in having a robust health care environment that does address our needs. so what we will hear this tension throughout the conversation today as we discuss some of the actionable potentially actionable policy solutions but recognize that there are trade-offs involved in embracing them all. to get us started, we re delighted to have two speakers, joe antos from american enterprise institute and ken thorp from emory to expect about the roles of technology and chronic conditions. and joe, we re very happy to have joe here with us today. he deci
my own money chances are and i d be delighted to do it. so what i d like to know wanted to know and what consumers would like to know is not only whoo what is it going to cost me but how is it going to affect me and that s really hard to get an answer to and that is really the key to understanding how technology works. finally what about expectations? i left that here for consumers because in the end we don t change our views about what we demand as an absolute minimum and, rick, i wanted to assure you it s a complete cure immediately but until we get reassurance about those things, we will not get control over cost. thank you. thank you very much, joe. as joe said, technology adds to both supply and demand and one of of the things we know we have an unending supply of right now are patients with chronic disease. so, ken, over to you to talk about that. okay. first of all, thanks, ed and others, for inviting me. it s a pleasure to be here on this panel. great to see every