Those in the audience would please take their seats, well get underway. I now call the regular meeting of the Health Services board to order. Would you please join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well have the roll call. Roll call. Scott, present. Lim, present. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, excused. Follasbee, present. Sass, present. We have a quorum. Thank you. First action item. Item 1 approval of possible modification the minute of meeting regular meeting december 8 , 2016. Do i have a motion . Moved and [inaudible] the minutes the regular meeting och december 8 , 2016. Second. There is a second. Properly moved and seconded we approve the minute of the december 8 regular meeting of the board. Any comments or questions or edits by members of the board . Seeing none, any Public Comment . If
The staff that work very tirelessly through all the aspects och benefit amadministration and open enrollment and things that go on to make the system what it is on behalf of our members and to each of them individually and collectively i say thank you on behalf of the board for what you do, day in and out for our members. With that, is there any Public Comment on the annual report . Sorry ill ask for a motion to accept the annual report. Move to accept. It is properly moved is there a second. There is a second. Any comments or from the commissioners . Any Public Comment . I just wanted to add to the commendation to staff director and Department Head cathlen dodd and staff for all the incredible work. This is i think the best annual report i have seen and i have seen many over the years. This is really outstanding. Very comprehensive and again it points out the fact that we have a phenomenal number of members in our system and woe provide a remarkable number of services are very little
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
A specific fashion, not in oblique mention in wind up statement or some generality. There needs to be specific requests made so that we can engage whether or not vietnam is about to move in the right direction or continue its deterioration when it comes to human rights. There are a number of areas where Human Rights Violations are worsening, human trafficking, religious freedom and administration could, today, designate vietnam as a cpc country, country of particular concern, the facts are warranted and they also could be known as a tier three country when it comes to egregious violations of sex and labor trafficking, especially labor trafficking in vietnam. So the president has tools in his tool box, the president of the United States, we hope that hef us he uses them. Well send per your request and your testimony your strong appeal backed up by our strong appeal, well do it immediately. I hope its specific some general statement about human rights. It hasnt in any other country aroun
His visit to capitol hill and how it is being interpreted. Of then the director National Museum of American History will discuss his book. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal on sunday. Join the discussion. Now a form forum on the cost of keeping health care safe. This is hosted by politico. It is one hour and 15 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome executive editor for kenan. Care, joann ms. Kenan good afternoon, everyone. I am one of the executive editor for health care and i would like to thank you all for joining us and those of you on the live stream, too. Outside in is our event series focusing on health care and technology and being political we look at health care through politics and policy. Outside in was a way to conceived in a way to bring out outsiders with washington insiders. This is the first event this year. Weve taken the idea one step further this year and created a forum of Health Care Tech industry insiders who have a list of their names on your sea