Ms. Castor thank you, mr. Chairman. I will place in the record a brief Opening Statement that i had for this markup. Im pleased to support both of these nominees. Mr. Johnson we are meeting to consider the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the u. S. Department of Homeland Security. And admiral to be assistant secretary of transportation administration, t. S. A. , u. S. Department of Homeland Security. These are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time, with all the threats we face to our transportation sector. As well as across the globe and the threats to our homeland. So the secretary the undersecretary for intelligence analysis, the department of Homeland Security, is responsible for leading the department of Homeland Securitys office of intelligence and analysis. And also serves as the departments chief intelligence officer. In these roles the undersecretary is responsible for the streemings of intelligence and analysis, to develop a com
These organizations move to pay people for quality instead of quantity. The Obama Administration will give a hospital a set amount of money for caring for the patients. Then the doctor has to strategize so they dont have to go into the red. They are hoping the model will drive down costs and get rid of the incentive or just that were at the start of that program. Host brian from massachusetts with sarah kliff. Caller a caller talked about marriage practitioners and there is a lot of them. They pretty much have a lot of schools are graduating many Nurse Practitioners and physicians assistants. There is a cap on the amount of doctors they can create. Nurse practitioners have two years of crammed education. I think they are good providers. We cannot assume that a Nurse Practitioner or physicians assistant are going to be as good as medical doctors. Guest that is a criticism that a lot of people raise. Are these people going to be as good as doctors . In certain spaces, they provide justic
Was. It would seem to me to be critical when you were examining one of these claims. I assume that you have a group that works with the claimant as far as dealing with their Insurance Company. Dodge the Loan Officers deal with the actual agent when they process the application. And you feel comfortable with their expertise . Insurance companies can be somewhat difficult at times when it comes to claims. We have pretty good success dealing with the disaster survivor and the agency. I can see i am way over, but i have a number of other questions. In any event, if i were you, i would take a look at the application form. I dont want to see a form that looks like a phone book, but i have this idea of keeping it simple. But it seems to me you need more information than what you have. Go back to katrina. The chairman indicated there were 18,000 businesses, what percent had insurance . I will have to go check the records. I was not with the office of Disaster Assistance at the time. It would s