Freedom information act, and they do not try to point any exemptions for National Security or classification reasons, it would be an unprecedented event as far as i know. The state department is incredibly aggressive. All agencies of the federal bureaucracy are incredibly aggressive impacting information that could be classified. The notion that the secretary of state, in the course of her duties, could write 55,000 pages or receive 55,000 pages of email and not one ioda of it is classified, would be very difficult for me or for anyone who is somebody with the freedom of information act to believe. I am confident it will be an interesting thing because the state department, as they process request, will have to decide they will look at an email and say, this is classified but if they try to read acted as such, they are making a liar out of the Hillary Clinton defenders. It will be interesting to see how they perceive when they hit that conundrum, but i would be shocked if there is not
There are some who say we need an executive branch of the presidency that has no restrictions at all. We dont really want to have a vote and all of this. Sort of like commanderinchief, you do that. But when it comes to diplomacy that is still unfinished, and still a work in progress, they want maximum constraints and lack of maneuverability. I think that is the fair, sort of analytical, statement. What i think is unfortunate, and have seen this over the past years, is the perceived costs of making National Security issues. I do think that the real costs in the world, how we argued around the world because of these letters, because of almost shutting down parts of the department of Homeland Security to protect us from terrorists, the perceived costs have gone down. And i hope we can rebuild that center of internationalism. Host we are going to dig our viewers in about 15 minutes to capitol hill. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be gaveling in, a hearing to fight isis. Secreta
Foundation had trended. Someones cellphone is going off. Sorry, the kaiser membership has trended younger over time. And so i think we are all on the same page. They are now with that in terms of it being a factor that has been included in our renewal and is clear that although the kaiser membership has grown and grown in all areas of young and old membership that over all the age has improved. We have a younger population than weve had in 2009. We also talked quite a bit about the risk study. One of the Funding Proposals we are considering is risk premiums and an agreement on how to do the risk study to determine the risk of the population. We have agreed on a medical and pharmacy all claim data based risk study that has been initiated and we have the goal of completing that by february of 2014 for the boards review in march and if we meet that deadline we should be able to go with the pricing, if not well be informed of the risk of the populations and how we manage with them going fo
Blue shields and nor the reported. 2. 4 million in the shared dental plan and a reduction of 1 million estimated medical hmo premium revenues avenue application of the early retirement reassurance program. This is the federal money being used. One of the things that happens is a reduction in the estimated hmo insurance premiums. 700,000 increase to account for the time between the fsa contribution and filing of claims. 800,000 for interest assuming that we have no significant increases in those yearend value including investments. 200,000 reduction for transfers to the general fund. So what does this mean . When you take the 21 million you add it to the 71 million that i was discussing before and you end up with 98. 4 million. When you net out that 68. 6 million for the obligations and reserves, you get a balance of 29. 8 million, 30 million which is a more reasonable trusted size rather the 9. 8 million. We are going to report to you as to how projections are coming into fruition and
Claims. 800,000 for interest assuming that we have no significant increases in those yearend value including investments. 200,000 reduction for transfers to the general fund. So what does this mean . When you take the 21 million you add it to the 71 million that i was discussing before and you end up with 98. 4 million. When you net out that 68. 6 million for the obligations and reserves, you get a balance of 29. 8 million, 30 million which is a more reasonable trusted size rather the 9. 8 million. We are going to report to you as to how projections are coming into fruition and how that impacts our net year assets. Well know more definitely by january or february timeframe. In terms of the general Fund Administrative budget, we are projecting a balance of 176,000 due to delays in hiring. This is to recognize the fact that we have had, that hiring takes longer for some positions and then when you offer people positions, they dont immediately take them because they have lives to take car