Care they need. I would just add quickly that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is currently reworking its model act on Network Adequacy includes addressing the question of provider directories and holding 2 1 2 hours of Conference Calls every week which i think is unprecedented in my experience. The state regulators who are ultimately responsible for this are very aware that there is an issue here that needs to be addressed. Commercial alert. The alliance will be holding webinars looking at draft form already has been released new model regulations that the naic is developing in the area of networks. And that is on the 18th, is it . 19th. Youll be getting youll be getting a notification soon. Yes. Go right ahead, maam. Good afternoon. Im an attorney trying to break into health policy. My question builds upon several of the questions asked u but is specific to consumer confusion in anticipating their costs as it relates to the tax credits that theyve been given. So as
Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
And later a look at how diversifying americas workforce can be achieved by education and other means. The open Enrollment Period for purchasing Health Insurance on the federal marketplace began this weekend. The alliance for Health Reform recently hosted a discussion on what enrollees can expect and the improvements after last years rollout. This is an hour and a half. Hi, my name is ed lawrence and i want to welcome you to todays program on the Health Insurance marketplaces or exchanges. Some of you may have heard that tomorrow, that is november 15th begins the second open enrollment season for plans offered through the marketplace. That period runs through february 15, far shorter period than the sixmonth open enrollment time that we had last season. We all know that market places had some major problems with aspects of their operations, im sure well hear some about that today as well as hearing about the steps being made to improve that functionality. And we also wanting to look clo