I used to love it when i would be in icu and be looking at all the machines and you knew that if it flat lined you had a problem. You just get tired. Youre not in pain. You just get tired. And the next thing i know, a nurse in the icu, a doctor comes in, heres what we have to do for the patient. And they listen to the doctor. Es, right. Any rate, what i was thinking about, carol, is that i believe almost every nurse in the twoyear period who took care of bo showed up and waited as long as five hours in line at wilmington, delaware, to be at his viewing and funeral, which is a hell of a testament to the nurses but also a testament to our children. Look, carol has taken her celebrity and focused it on this fight for a long, long time. And i dont think any of us can thank her enough. Like many of you in this audience, youve given your time, passion, money, to deal with this godawful problem. Dr. Frederick, again, thank you for hosting this summit, for your leadership. Not only is this a G
Has won states. He won and the south and iowa. He followed bill clinton into office. He can win the evangelical voters which are really important in iowa and South Carolina. Four people who are fresher faces going after the same voters, ted cruz and Mike Huckabee are very much a threat to take a wait the first early states take away the first early states. Host Mike Huckabee announcing today. We will show that announcement life on cspan at 11 00 a. M. He will make that announcement from hope, arkansas and rollout into a weeklong iowa and South Carolina trip. All of the candidates making their appearances in the early primary states. Talk about ben carson. Who does he take the most votes away from . Caller guest he is very popular with young voters. At cpac he was one of the more popular candidates. This is a big deal for the republicans, attracting younger voters. He is important for them. He is somebody who burst onto the scene two years ago at the Prayer Breakfast and really caught e
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. N conroy let us eternal god, through whom we see what we could be and what we can become, thank you for giving us another day. In these days, our nation is faced with pressing issues, constitutional, religious, and personal rights, and matters of great political importance. We thank you that so Many Americans have been challenged and risen to the exercise of their responsibilities as citizens to participate in the great debates of these days. Grant wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to us all as we as well as an extra measure of charity. Send your spirit upon the members of this peoples house who walk through this valley under public scrutiny. Ive them peace and solomonic prudence in their deliberations. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his
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Expenses if somebody was willing to go to a provider. We have four tiers within the network. And we leveraged the blue cross and blue shield centers of excellence and tiered it even further. We started with quality and added a cost component, so this is some of the results from 2012 and 2013 when we implemented that. About 264 joint replacements or back fusion surgeries in the last 18 months or so. In the middle blue bar, you can see the impact to the cost of someone who chose to go to the highest quality, most cost efficient providers around the country. We saw about a 20 to 30 reduction in costs. When you include travel, so we plaid for travel and a companion to travel. Similar to what health purse is doing. Again, about a 30 perts decrease in cost and from a quality perspective, no adverse side effects. Potentially avoidable complications, there were none, by someone maybe not going to a facility in their hometown. Where they had to travel for that knee replacement. We had people tr