Yes, in the very back there. Wait for the microphone. Safe foundation. Sir, i was impressed with your presentation. Now, i have a more fundamental question about the government of the United States and the people who control this country, the right and the left both together. Now, the kind of activities we are engaged in at this time, the spying on american citizens, the entire war crimes that we are committing all over the world, all these things, 20, 30 years from now we will be very, very ashamed as we are ashamed of the things that were being done in the 50s and 60s by those who controlled our government. How do we change this . We are continuously doing such tremendous amount of activities which are inhuman and barbaric. One of the themes and we could have a separate discussion of how bad the conduct of one or another American Government is at any given time, but i think one of the themes that we bring out from today is that if you cant speak freely about, it you cant document it,
Lasting legacy will be that the American People saw what a lawless presidency looks like. What Big Government overreach looks like and the American People are going to say no, i think i will take a rain check. President obama set out to make government cool again and he did just the opposite. The principals that make america exceptional are too valuable to throw by the wayside. They will allow america to shine as the enduring beacon of freedom and liberty around the world. The tea party awakened the country to the values that we hold dear and made us the greatest nation in the world. The freedom and rights are taken away. The spirit that built the nation from the bottom up. It didnt build us from the top down. America has not been preserved by officials in washington, d. C. As much as we would like to see it. It isnt. It has been preserved by the men and the women who rose to the challenge and made the nation great. The norman bor looks of the world. The Martin Luther king,jr. S of the
So to give you a sense of why that really diminishes the incentives, if you think about an aco increasing spending during a Contract Period, medicare shared savings program, aco for example that isnt facing any Downside Risk, they are penalized for doing that. And it increases their benchmark for the following Contract Period and then they can receive a shared savings bonus for doing nothing. Under the pioneer program, they are penalized for doing more, but again theres that offsetting effect by the benchmark going up and the subsequent Contract Period, so for pioneer acos the incentives are more akin to fee for service with a lag. Then, thinking about the fixed costs of investing in systems to actually control spending, the rebasing is that much more of a problem because it may be hard for acos to recoup their investments of investing in the right systems. So that is one challenge. And i know sean and his team is working hard on a revamped proposed rule for the shared savings program.
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