Im married to a former colonel out of the u. S. Army. I have a son thats going into the u. S. Army. I sit so we consider ourselves a mmit, military family. And im going to tell you, we cannot continue as the solution with everything to send our troops in to do business. There are other means in which. We have to do that. Rselves diplomatic means. We have to have actionable intelligence. We have to use the economics of the situation. So i believe, in particular the Bush Administration used the military far too much and to our detriment in many cases. And sometimes i wonder if the ma Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It feels compelled to understand the situation and doesnt understand that somehow weve got to extricate ourselves south of some of these situations. You mean compelled the use iy military as an option . Exactly. Any ca they may feel compelled. Again, ill be very honest. When he first came in, i said look, we cant continue this. We just cannot continue this. Its no
Anybody else want go ahead, vern. Just to comment on the general direction, in the surveys we have the privilege of doing with the Kaiser Family foundation and namd we have a series of questions on whats going on with the system reform and Payment System reform and so on and if theres one thing that characterizes Medicaid Programs today it is a focus on what they can do to make their programs better in the sense of achieving Better Outcomes and so on. There are just example examples after, you know, many, many examples that you could cite. Its arizona is exemplary. And there are 49 other exemplary states also in terms of what theyre doing in this regard. It is amazing what states are doing now and if you want to look at one place where medicaid is a leader in the health care system, you can look at medicaid. It is definitely, definitely leading. Trying things that other folks havent tried. States are focused and they have the ability to be flexible and one state learns from another. Le
Customers make better decisions. 136 year, we will have Group Health Plans and 26 different individual plans. When you have that many options, we know an shows that it is overwhelming. We heard that from our customers currently. We heard it from our broken partners broker partners, our navigators, and our assistance. Next year, we will be launching something similar. For 2016, we will also have new standardized plans. That means standardized benefits , as well as outofpocket expenses, that will help our customers make more informed decisions, compare apples to apples. In our first year of operation, we had semistandard products. The benefits had to be the same in the essential Health Benefits benchmark no substitutions. Copays and other outofpocket costs very. Although that was helpful, it was not the complete tools some needed to make good decisions. Same thingsed the as kentucky. Folks chose platinum when they had few opportunities to get medical care. They did not need it, they were
Who could plausibly win the nomination, someone who will be 53 years old next year, rather than somebody who will be 75 years old. Somebody who has been a twoterm governor of a state that sort of was widely considered in the mainstream of the party and politics, where Bernie Sanders has been, he is a unique character. But lets face it, he has not member, most effective liberal democratic senator. An effective senator, ted kennedy, there are boatloads. But he has chosen to be a voice, but to actually do stuff, get agenda,one, drive an that has not been sanders so much. I know that his supporters are passionate and they believe in him, that is great. The thing is, what a party would a party moved to him, the democratic party, and a pinch, i have a hard time seeing that happen. Anyway, thank you for coming out here. [applause] [applause] tonight on cspan, you look at the impact of legalized marijuana. In colorado and other states. , as debate on Marijuana Forum hosted by the steamboat ins
You how you would change the president ial debates. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependence, 202 7488002 you can also post your comments on facebook, or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Good morning. Mentioned, republicans met yesterday in the Nations Capital about the way forward on the debate. Here is the headline in usa today. Gop candidates say debates must change. Seeking to address candidate complaints, the rnc made staff changes designed to and thehief counsel parties do debate negotiator, an organizer according to an email sent to campaigns from rnc chief of staff. I want to show you the story of politicos eisenstadt, reporting about last nights meeting, his headline, gop campaigns push to take more control of debates. Phone ands on the covers politics for politico. Tell us about this meeting yesterday. What was the motivation for republicans to meet . Guest the meeting was summed up pretty well, which is that the the debate last week in colorado wa