[applause] good morning everybody. Good energy in the room it is great to see everybody here how many people work here with a the va . That is great i am glad you could be here today this is important and i really want to thank you for your involvement what you are doing to make va a better place. As you know va has a great tradition of developing and disseminating in and innovation that we rely upon every day and that came out of the va systems your falling in those footsteps. One of the thing settled think people realize as it is incumbent upon you is that with all of the responsibilities that come with so many people who work in jobs with productivity with health care and Everything Else the va is one of the best places to have the time and ability to innovate so i the ink we have to understand and promote this is a great place to doing those things that we can do that those that worked in the private sector those unspent time and energy on innovation so to take you were doing that
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Challenges for American Health care. This is about 90 minutes. Thank you all for coming back after the break. Appreciate it. Hi. Im david im the ceo of specific Business Group on health. First i want to thank them for sponsoring this meeting for us. It is across many points of view they have a strong stake for their own populations and for everybody in the country. Its important to note that while these are tremendous organizations that are investing a great deal in experimentation and learning they are not typical of american employers. Any small and medium sized employees around the country to influence health care. I think one thing well talk about is the implications for these kinds of strategies for other employers who have the same resources to effect the market. We think theres a lot to be learned. What i want to do is take a minute to transition between the first panel and the second and mention a few of the themes i think we have heard. We talk about implications for the marke
Challenges for American Health care. This is about 90 minutes. Thank you all for coming back after the break. Appreciate it. Hi. Im david im the ceo of specific Business Group on health. First i want to thank them for sponsoring this meeting for us. It is across many points of view they have a strong stake for their own populations and for everybody in the country. Its important to note that while these are tremendous organizations that are investing a great deal in experimentation and learning they are not typical of american employers. Any small and medium sized employees around the country to influence health care. I think one thing well talk about is the implications for these kinds of strategies for other employers who have the same resources to effect the market. We think theres a lot to be learned. What i want to do is take a minute to transition between the first panel and the second and mention a few of the themes i think we have heard. We talk about implications for the marke
Thank you all for coming back after the break and finding a seat. Appreciate it. Well just get settled again. Hi, im david lanski. Im the ceo of Pacific Business group on health. Some of the panelist you just heard from were members of ours. Let me just say a word about what were doing here and my job here really is to help make a transition between the wonderful case studies and purchasers to the implications for policy development in washington where we started the day with dr. Burgess. First i want to thank aei and brookings for sponsoring this meeting with us. Tremendous opportunity to have a dialogue that is nonpartisan and across many points of view to try to think what the successful developments of health care policy. Pbj is one of the sponsors. We represent about 60 very large employers and purchasers. They together have about 12 million covered lives and together they spend about 60 billion every year so they have a strong stake in the improvement of the Health Care System fo