Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Mayors Disability Council here at city hall on friday june 19, 2015. Here in room 400. At this time i would like to turnover the opening introduction of the meeting to cochair supanich. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mccallister street via ramps. Access at polk street carlton b entrance is provided a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciation. We welcome the publics participation du
Health care are much more than the 6 of the people, everyone was important, who would have to buy their insurance and the individual Health Insurance market. We are glad to have this discussion and its a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest. To your advice. We are holding a hearing today to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. And i will each have an Opening Statement and then we will introduce the witnesses. Testimony,itnesses there will be five minutes of questions from the senators. I want to thank senator murray ar her leadership and being straightforward negotiating partner on our efforts to present to the senate a limited bipartisan bill to stabilize the andrance market during 2018 2019. She and i will go to the Senate Floor Today at 1 00 p. M. And make a brief statement. And put the text of the in the congressional record. The senators can
Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was to d lited to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people whom have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad to have this discussion and a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest and we look forward to your advice. Today were holding a hearing to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses team, senators will each have five minutes of questions. Let me say i w
Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was to d lited to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people whom have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad to have this discussion and a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest and we look forward to your advice. Today were holding a hearing to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses team, senators will each have five minutes of questions. Let me say i w
Political. As we sometimes feel like were picking up the pieces of problems that are outside of her hands. The people need this assistance but we need to find a Legal Solutions to these complex. Thank you. Thank you for the excellent answer. Thank you all so much for your testimony here today, we are in something that is an annual event, budget, with ten, 20, 30 votes maybe today so we apologize to you, the way in which today is going to be conducted, but it doesnt in any way reduce the thanks we have for you and impressive nature of your testimony to take you so much. This hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] on friday, cspan set down with Hillary Clinton to discuss her recent book. She talked about her recent. Speech given by george w. Bush on the current state of american politics. Talked aboutbush the cru