Accountable care. Preventing rehospitalization, avoiding costly medical errors that lead to complications all those are steps that Accountable Care organizations like the hospitals, now that the payments for readmissions are being reduced those organizations have stronger incentives to address. Are there any areas where you are worried about the other direction, that the higherquality care may actually expensive, maybe for some specialty conditions, where there are extensive treatments needed . Any particular areas stand out there . Anything to Pay Attention to . What i would say about that is, we have had some technology firms, medical device firms, come and say, this payment is wonderful, but you are going to squelch innovation. What we have said is, we dont want to squelch innovation. There is a type of innovation that reduces costs, but even ones that may increase costs that are lifesaving or lifeenhancing. We are trying to find ways to measure that. We have been working closely wi
Discretion. Us in the interest of time and out of respect for all candidates, asked the Live Audience to refrain from clapping, sharing, or otherwise making noise with two exceptions. We welcome our candidates. [applause] thank you again for joining us. Good luck. Time is short, so lets get started. The first question will go to dr. Reeves. The department of justice has warned all School Districts they are required to educate all children regardless of immigration status. One estimate puts the cost in all 50 states and at least 760 milliont dollars. Should this be the cost of local School District or the federal government . I think the funding is coming from the federal government, and for thed be responsible federal government. Just take a look at the corridor of shame. President obama came down to South Carolina, and the corridor of shame refers to schools that have been neglected in rural areas. Children on free lunch or partial free lunch, and we turn that money down. That is what
You trust to make these decisions about their own reproductive health. I trust women 100 of the time. I think they should be able to make those decisions with their families come a with their physicians. Scott brown voted against that when it came to appointing a new justice to the Supreme Court who was prochoice. He was opposed to elena kagan. When it came to supporting the freedom of choice act when he ran in 2010, he opposed that. Lets move to dante. He has been next question for senator shaheen. Winter is up. That is not a reference to the tv show, is it . [laughter] regardless of who is elected, electricity bills are about to skyrocket for many homeowners. What is the best way to ensure affordable rates . Energy is an important issue for us here in new england. We lowered rates by about 16 . It is why i have worked with the senate to come up with an Energy Strategy because i believe we have got to support new energy technologies, alternative sources of energy. I dont think we are
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