Demand driven. We dont train widget makers. The commune to College System has worked so remarkably well. One of the biggest differences between 10 years ago and now and why this is working well is the level of business engagement. If you go to Front Range Community college in colorado, he will see they have an advanced manufacturing partnership, a partnership between the federal, state and local government, the Business Community and others. Look and see the curriculum is being devised within industry. There are businesses whose workers are professors. One of the reasons they love teaching is they cherry pick the best students. That tiny build your talent pipeline. That is how you build your talent pipeline. Thank you for your leadership on behalf of comedic colleges. We had four years of desk cap grants. Community colleges. It stands for using comedic colleges to catalyze change. What i learned from these grants is that oftentimes, businesses were not talking enough to educators. In l
Test test test test captioning performed by vitac you dont know what else is coming down the pike. I dont want to oversell these tools. They are useful as a way to ballpark things and help consumers shop and compare. Its still a rough estimate because health care by its nature is an unknown in the year ahead. For those planned events and joel spoke about this the huge variation in price with no discernible difference in quality. We know, for example that neck mris will change from 230 to a tenth of that amount. There are certain instances where we can really come very far along in terms of helping people estimate costs and sort of partake in the favorable economics of smart decisionmaking. I had one more thing. Thats just about this whole issue when we talk about the tools for consumers of choice architecture design. Its how we present this information to consumers and theres been studies that consumers will go with the default so really have to think how were presenting the cost infor
Say that certainty is needed by states to repair the nations infrastructure. We want to return to you turn to all of you and say what are your infrastructure needs. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country dial in 202 7488000. Mountain specific dial 202 7488001. If you want to join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open and we will begin with the Washington Times. The highway funding bill stuck in limbo as the august recess quickly approaches. Kevin mccarthy shut the bill to a sixmonth bill. Saying even if the other changer gets it done chamber gets it done this week it would be impossible for history is to study a thousand page deal before the house leaves thursday night. The majority leader announced that his side are a past a fivemonth road bill and last night they introduced a threemonth extension. Senate negotiators barreled forward anyway saying that congresss reliance on shortterm patches has passed
If we can understand place where is people think those arent working, we do want to understand that so we can work to improve. The gao shared their methodology with you, and those examples we are waiting for that, correct . We are looking forward to gao coming out with recommendations which is the part that has not yet occurred. Thank you. The president s commitment to Early Childhood education, its reflected in the Budget Proposal 1. 5 billion extra for early headstart and for headstart itself. Briefly, if you can tell us the budget levels and spending caps established by the majority, whats that going to do to the fact that you are trying to build capacity you are trying to stress quality and accountability for providers for these children . And what does that do to capacity . With regard to the levels i think that if you are going the meet those levels and you want to fully fund headstart, what it will mean are dramatic cuts to things like nih or cdc in terms of other places. I thin
Projections and also hear it from the private sector. The belief is, having come from the private sector and actually having come from a company that is known for its negotiating on price, walmart, the idea that we use Market Mechanisms to try and put downward pressure on price is something we think is important. Thats why weve asked for those authorities, so that we can try and work with the pharmaceuticals and negotiate to keep downward pressure on that price. Thats what we hope we can do. We see it as part of the overall issues that we are being asked about how we transform the system for the long term. We believe there are things we need to do and pressure we need to future. What do you see as some of the key problems that you are going to be having as you try and move forward with this . I think with regard to this particular issue its not one you know, it is a elect lative and a statutory issue. It will take a statutory change to grant the authorities to be able to negotiate. Tha